FAMILY LAW RESOURCES BLOG

Relationships are complicated, and they don’t always work out. Marriages can fall apart after twenty years of love and friendship, and the ride of a lifetime can (and often does) come to an end. While divorce rates have been on the rise for quite some time, they’ve dramatically increased as…

Fathers generally have a harder time getting custody of their children, especially when battling for full custody. That doesn’t mean it’s impossible – and you might not want to be so quick to rule out a cooperative solution either. Before dismissing custody court, it helps to understand your child custodial…

It’s common knowledge that few fathers have full custody (i.e., sole custody) of their children. While custody law does not discriminate by gender, it does place weight on who a judge deems to best suit the “primary caretaker” qualities when joint or shared custody is off the table. Above all…

One in five (20 percent) custodial parents is a father. Custodial parents are defined as the parent the child spends the most time with – this does not mean that all custodial parents have sole custody, but it does mean that their child spends more time with them than with…