Making It Work

Marion Crossman doesn't like it when her ex-husband wanders through her house on changeover days looking for one of his children - and her new husband likes it even less. But for the greater good she bites her tongue. "They are his daughters and I have to be loyal to him in front of them," says Crossman, 45, a high-school teacher in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney.

Crossman and her ex- husband have pulled off something the Australian Government hopes will become more common. After their marriage ended in 1994, they devised - without the involvement...

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