Karen Covy

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1,928 appearances 11 recordings 1 series first heard May 2026 last heard 12 Aug

Karen Covy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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Off the Fence with Karen Covy: Mastering Decision Making, Divorce & More · The Truth About Coercive Control in Divorce · 3 Jun 2026 podcast

So the you know, they can go to mediation and sit there with their arms folded and say, I'm I'm just not gonna agree, and then it's useless. voice-verified

How do you get someone who wants control to go into a mediation setting which would theoretically give them less control? voice-verified

That's interesting because here in Illinois we don't have something formally called conciliation, but there are a number of retired judges who do mediation, right? voice-verified

So that and I know that's true in a lot of different parts of the country. voice-verified

So even if it's not if it doesn't have a formal name, I like the idea of looking for the former judge to be the voice-verified

mediator um because of the whole authority figure aspect to it. voice-verified

Yeah, and the former judge, if they have you know, if they've been on the bench any length of time at all, um voice-verified

This isn't their first rodeo, right? voice-verified

They've seen the behavior before. voice-verified

And sometimes they can be charmed, a hundred percent. voice-verified

Oh yes, absolutely. voice-verified

Yep. voice-verified

But sometimes they they at least have seen enough to be able to see through it a little bit more than your average Joe. voice-verified

Yes. voice-verified

Well, how do you put an end to the ongoing litigation post decree? voice-verified

Because when you have children involved in uh in any divorce and there's somebody who loves to litigate or really is determined to make the other side suffer, which is the characteristic of a narcissist or someone who wants control, right? voice-verified

How do you handle that? voice-verified

in like ongoing litigation, post degree kid stuff. voice-verified

But can you explain what the role of a parenting coordinator is and how much authority they actually have? voice-verified

So if I'm hearing you correctly, the judge still has ultimate authority, but until you can get to the judge, which may be months or years, whatever the parenting coordinate coordinator says is what you have to do. voice-verified

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