Each year over one million marriages end in divorce in the United States. When divorce happens, people feel alone and wonder how anyone else lived through it. S.M.I.L.E. (Start Making It Livable for Everyone) is a program for separating/divorced parents with minor children.  

The developers of this program have worked with hundreds of divorcing families having difficulties with time-sharing, parenting roles, and other divorce-related issues. This program will provide some information about the effects of divorce and what parents can do to make the divorce situation livable.

The S.M.I.L.E. program is held on the third Wednesday of every month, except in July, at 200 N. Main, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 48104, in the Lower Level Conference Room from 10:00 a.m. until 12:00 p.m.  This program is open to the public.

For more information, please review the S.M.I.L.E. Handbook below or contact Friend of the Court at 734-222-3050.

S.M.I.L.E. Handbook--(PDF)

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