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Erik Carter has been a practicing trial attorney for over 15 years. Currently he is exclusively practicing family law, and maintains and develops The Father's Rights Library, which is devoted to educating Fathers on effective litigation strategies for court hearings, mediations, and negotiations.

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  • Why Holidays Are Important For Fathers Without Custody
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] When a fathers doesn't have custody of his children, he may have a difficult time of it when holidays roll around. He may not have custody because of a divorce or a breakup with the mother. If a holiday is not specifically spelled out in some kind of court order, then dad generally won't get to see his kids.


  • Why Summer is Important For Fathers Without Custody
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] Fathers who do not have custody of their children need to enforce their visitation rights over the summer. Not seeing their kids over the summer can weaken the relationship the kids have for dad. Sometimes court intervention is necessary to force visitation to occur. Dads should be prepared when they have to go to court.


  • Father's Rights - When Should You Change Custody?
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] One of the most frequent questions that fathers have is when should they try to get custody of the kids back? Do they have to wait a certain period of time? Do they have to prove mom is "unfit" to get custody? When can they go to court for their children? When is the right time to enforce a father's rights?


  • Bodyweight Exercises - The Handstand Pushup - The KING of Weight Loss
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] It seems that everyone who wants to lose weight is searching for the key, the one thing that will make the fat melt off like cheese off a Philly cheese steak. Hmmm... maybe that's not the best analogy. But there is one bodyweight exercise that will put your mind in a state that demands that you lose weight.


  • How to Be an Involved Parent AFTER the Divorce Or Breakup
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] When a couple with children divorces or breaks up, too many times, the parent who doesn't have custody of the children becomes a visitor in his or her children's lives. But the parent without custody does have parenting rights and a visitation schedule, and rights to see school and health records. Here is how to remain active in your child's life, even if you aren't in their primary home.


  • Making Sure You (Dad Without Custody) Can Still Attend Teacher Meetings and Sporting Events
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] When you are a father without custody of your children, one of the most frustrating aspects is missing out on your kid's sporting events, schooling, and special events. Especially when custodial mother gives you the information way too late or not at all. This article discusses a few ways to guarantee you will be informed of the schedules, well in advance.


  • Stop Parental Alienation Syndrome Before it Gets a Chance to Start
    [Relationships:Post-Divorce] Parental-Alienation Syndrome is the tragic situation where a custodial parent literally brainwashes a child into fearing and hating the non-custodial parent, for no good reason. This article stresses the importance of FIGHTING this horrible attempt by the custodial parent to poison the mind of the child.


  • How to Keep Attorney Fees Down in a Child Case
    [Relationships:Divorce] Very few people sit around, trying to think of ways to pay their lawyer MORE money. Actually, they are probably sitting around, thinking that THEIR lawyer is sitting around, thinking about ways to CHARGE more money. This isn't true - lawyers can charge plenty of money ethically, because litigation is complex, and usually involves hours of preparation.


  • Don't Let the Economy Tank Your Golf Game
    [Recreation-and-Sports:Golf] In a bad economy, the way to save your job, and even advance in your career, is to invest in yourself. The same holds true for your golf game. Higher gas prices, higher greens fees, less savings for high-tech clubs force you to shift the focus of improving your game from the externals to improving yourself. Get in golf shape. Get golf fit.


  • Exercise NOW To Shovel Snow And Avoid The Heart Attack
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] The holidays are full of beautiful memories: playing in the snow with your kids, making snow men in the yard, making snow angels on the lawn. By doing exercise now, your memories of this Christmas will be happy, healthy, and hopeful, and not of a midnight visit to the ER.


  • Father's Rights - Why Britney Spears Lost Custody - And What It Means For YOU
    [Relationships:Divorce] Probably the last name you think of when you think of "Father's Rights" is Britney Spears. But if you are a father who is involved in a custody battle, then her custody case is worth watching - and LEARNING.


  • Bodyweight Exercises - The PERFECT Routine
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Organizing your exercises into a routine that gets results the fastest and the most efficiently is the holy grail for anyone who works out. Bodyweight exercises are uniquely primed to give you the most flexible workout, which may BE the "perfect routine."


  • Resist Temptation and Grow Your Business
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Maintaining focus on your business goals is hard enough, but temptations surround you that take you away from your goals, and sap your energy and your money. Resisting temptation can be accomplished with this simple 3 step plan, taught by the ultimate business guru, Jesus.


  • 3 Steps To Getting Your NEXT Online Sale
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] A business is only as good as its next sale. Once you've set up your home business or your online business, and generate some sales, you need to keep the momentum going. How can you position your business so that the NEXT sale is within reach?


  • 4 Steps To Getting Your FIRST Online Sale
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Almost everyone dreams of setting up a website and generating sales "while you sleep." The emails and websites that you read promise you that's easy! Well, it actually IS easy, but it's also hard work. Here are the 4 steps you must do to get your first sale. And getting your first sale is absolutely necessary to getting the one millionth.


  • How Managing A FORUM On Your Site Can INCREASE Your Sales
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Forums] So much of your time is spent attracting traffic and new customer to your site. But by spending time with the customers who visit your site regularly - and by giving your customers a reason to visit your site regularly - you can develop a core of dedicated customers.


  • One Thing People Find Most Challenging About NICHE Marketing Is MOMENTUM
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] A great way to build a list is to focus on a niche market. Once you have attracted traffic to your website, and had visitors sign up for your list, how do you keep the momentum going? How do you keep your visitor's attention after they have left your website?


  • The 5 Key Areas Of Your Life And How To Improve Them
    [Self-Improvement] You have five key areas to your life: family, spirituality, fitness and health, business, and self. Focusing on and improving any ONE of these areas will improve the quality of your life dramatically. Focusing and improving 2 or 3 is possible, if you are intimidated or doubtful of those "change your life in an instant" packages.


  • The 4 Things Your Online Business Needs To Succeed
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] Businesses - whether online or bricks-and-mortar - require four key elements to survive and thrive. But a business that takes advantage of the power of the Internet can obtain these four elements quicker, cheaper, and more than any other business, at any other time in history. This article describes each element, and how you can help your business by using the power of the Internet to obtain each one.


  • Does Your Business Have The Right DNA For Success?
    [Business:Small-Business] Your business presentation - whether that is TV advertising, a website, mailings, listbuilding, or just word of mouth - must answer the ONE question that every customer has: why should the consumer buy THIS from YOU? By making sure that your business has the right DNA, which it gets from good customer relationships, you can guarantee your business success.


  • What Can Talk Radio Teach You About Internet Marketing?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Talk radio is a huge phenomenon, responsible for reviving radio as a viable medium. But what can talk radio teach you about marketing products online? Not advertising your products on talk radio, not installing a radio feed on your website, but using the techniques of talk radio to explode your sales.


  • Focus On Your Customers And Your Business Will Build Itself
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] Too many online business guides tell you to build a list, and too few tell you how to actually establish quality relationships with your customers. The internet is the greatest communication tool ever invented, yet online marketers are told to use it like faster snail mail. Break out of this narrow thinking, and treat your list like flesh and blood customers.


  • How To Make MORE Money From Your Online Business
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The key to selling more online is to treat your online business like the old corner store. Offer products that people want (that "niche" idea). Get customers to visit your store repeatedly (that "list building" thing). Establish a relationship with your customers (oh, that's the ... um.. the ... uh....). Hey, maybe that's a new idea....


  • Change Your Life By Changing ANYTHING (Pt. 5 of 5)
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] What is the secret to changing the parts of your life that you think need to be changed? It's so simple. Change ANY area of your life, and you will improve ALL areas of your life.


  • How to SELL Without SELLING, and Sell MORE
    [Business:Marketing] As a consumer, aren't you turned off by the "hard sell?" Wouldn't you rather work with the salesperson, to identify your problems and how the salesperson can solve those problems, rather than being sold on how great a particular product or service is, whether you need it or not? Do you have resources to help you build REAL relationships with customers, and not just how to send them 7 or 8 emails from your autoresponder?


  • Build A Diverse List - Build Sales Opportunities
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] When you run an online business, even if you focus on "niche" markets, you are presenting yourself to the entire world. So the odds are that your list is going to contain people from diverse backgrounds, diverse ethnicities, diverse cultures. If you manage this correctly, you can create diverse opportunities for sales and repeat sales.


  • Read Your List's "Mood Ring"
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online] The "mood ring" fad let you know a peson's mood by the color of their ring. What if your list had a "mood ring"? What if you knew - in advance - whether your list was in a buying mood, a wait-and-see mood or some other kind of mood? What if you knew your list's problems, so you can offer them solutions they'll buy?


  • Building Trust With Your Customers
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Traffic-Building] Building trust with your customers is a key component in having them buy from you again in the future. By running an online business, you can use the many tools available on the Internet to help your clients trust and rely on you. This makes it easier for each customer to buy from you in the future, and may make them turn to you first when they need a problem solved.


  • The EVOLUTION Of List Building
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:List-Building] This article looks at online selling and marketing, from the beginning (when search engines were all that mattered), through building customer lists, and looks at the next evolution of internet marketing: building relationships with your list members, to make your marketing profitable and effortless.


  • Forums Or Blogs: Where Should You Spend Your Time As A Marketer?
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Forums] Forums and blogs represent two of the most versatile tools available to anyone running an on-line business. Both allow you to generate targetted traffic to your website. And both allow you to communicate to your clients. So which one should you spend more of your time in? The answer may surprise you.


  • Kill Your Opponent Until He's Dead, And Other Lessons From CHESS
    [Self-Improvement:Motivation] I played competitive chess in high school, and those games taught me 3 things that have carried me through life and love: first, you must kill your opponent until he's dead; second, don't make a move unless you mean it; and third, mercy is for God, because your opponent has none. Too cynical? Get a clue.


  • What Should Your First Yoga Exercise Be?
    [Health-and-Fitness:Yoga] Yoga is one of the most popular exercise regimens today, with hundreds of poses (or asanas). But which asana should you start with? This article looks at the Sun Salutation for beginners.


  • Cross-Training & Bodyweight Exercises - The FASTEST Way To Fit And Healthy
    [Health-and-Fitness] Cross-training with multiple bodyweight exercise programs offers you the fastest way to get in shape, lose weight, feel healthier, and stretch stressed muscles. Bodyweight exercises workout the body faster and more efficiently than any other type of program, with less damage to muscles and organs.


  • Women in Online Marketing and Business
    [Womens-Interests] Women running businesses still face unique challenges, even today. Education, networking, support - women have different needs and abilities from men, and running a small or home-based online business may make those differences worse - or can strengthen and use your individual talents and skills. The internet provides the best opportunity for women to achieve financial and personal independence.


  • FAQs Keep Your Customers HAPPY
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Having a section for Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) that is interactive will help your visitors have a positive experience when they visit your site, and keep them as customers. Answering your customer's questions is one of the best ways to keep their interest and show them that you care about them.


  • HOW TO Turn Your Ideas Into Multiple Cash Flow Streams
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] The key to building wealth is in multiple cash flow streams. Being able to quickly turn an idea into a cash flow stream helps you enter a market first or grab a commanding market share before your competitors can get started. The key to turning an idea into a cash flow stream is a flexible system.


  • AUTOMATE Your On-Line Business For Maximum Profit
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Internet-Marketing] Automating as many functions related to marketing and selling of your on-line business can increase your profits by having your business work around the clock. Done properly, it's like having a dozen people working for you, 24 hours a day, with no HR issues and no payroll.


  • Change Your Time By Not Changing A Thing (Pt. 4 of 5)
    [Self-Improvement:Time-Management] Time management is something that almost everyone struggles with, especially the situation where you don't have TIME to begin a time management program. The simple steps in this article describe a method to begin time management within the time you already have.


  • Change Your Stretching By Not Changing A Thing (Pt. 3 of 5)
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] By adding a simple stretch during time that is usually spent watching TV, you can introduce stretching into your daily routine.


  • Change Your Fitness By Not Changing A Thing (Part 2 of 5)
    [Health-and-Fitness] Self-improvement involves changing attitudes and behaviors. By making the change a habit, your life is improved without causing trauma to you or the people around you. This article describes a simple method to make exercise a habit, and thereby permanent.


  • Building A Community Of The Visitors To Your Website
    [Internet-and-Businesses-Online:Forums] Using various methods to help your website's visitors become a community, to help each other and to help you determine their needs. Forums, bulletin boards, email forms, and other methods make this easier than ever.


  • Change Your Life By Not Changing A Thing (Part 1 of 5)
    [Self-Improvement] Self-improvement involves changing attitudes and behaviors. By making the change be a habit, your life is changed without causing trauma to you or the people around you. This article describes 3 steps to making the changed behavior into a habit, and thereby permanent.


  • 3 Unusual Ways To Ease Cold Symptoms
    [Health-and-Fitness:Alternative] Three methods are suggested to lessen or shorten cold symptoms, that do not involve medicines, herbs, or any "new age" garbage.


  • Exercise In Total Darkness
    [Health-and-Fitness:Exercise] Exercising in total darkness - or near total darkness - is something that most people don't think of doing. And when it is suggested to them, most people immediately think of reason they shouldn't. There's the "klutz" factor: what if I fall?


  • Resisting Temptation - The JESUS Way
    [News-and-Society:Religion] The humanity of Jesus was never more open and on display than when He was tempted. The Gospels describe several incidents where Jesus resisted temptation by fasting, prayer and Scripture, but without using His divinity.





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