Q. Halloween is always a problem. I want the kids to be with me and their dad wants them to be with him. I keep trying to tell him that the kids want to trick-or-treat with their friends, not in a ...

Ex-etiquette is a weekly column. Each week I answer your questions about breaking up, starting over and co-parenting. In last week’s column I made a comment about not being in favor of co-parents ...

Q. Halloween is always a problem. I want the kids to be with me and their dad wants them to be with him. I keep trying to tell him that the kids want to trick-or-treat with their friends, not in a ...

Talking to someone on a phone has always been second nature to me. When I was 13, my mother got a separate “children’s line” so that I had a private landline phone number in my room. And although I ...

MOST OF MY FRIENDS AND RELATIVES HAVE YOUNG CHILDREN, and I have a 2-year-old son, so I attend a lot of kids’ birthday parties. I’ve seen invitations with special requests for gifts — or “no gifts.” I ...

Q: My ex and I had always worked through everything together, our divorce decree doesn’t even have holidays set as we agreed to talk it out and work through it. Now that he is married, he refuses to ...

Q. What if you try to use good ex- etiquette when you deal with your ex, but she is just ruthless? I mean, things like she tells the kids I don’t care about them and makes up that the kids are sick, ...