Regardless of your circumstances, divorce proceedings are always a difficult time when kids are involved. It is challenging to keep a cool head and act rationally 100 percent of the time, but if you want to minimize the risk of losing your kids in the custody battle, that is exactly…
Part of a custody fight is the custody evaluation – an independent report put together by a qualified and court-appointed evaluator to help a judge decide what sort of custody arrangement would best suit the family and the child. Custody evaluators are usually trained therapists or psychiatrists and may even…
Do mothers have more rights to child custody than fathers? The short answer is no. Mothers do not have more rights to child custody than fathers do. Despite tropes, anecdotes, and assumptions, US custody laws do not favor one gender over the other. Instead, they explicitly favor the child and…
When going through a divorce or separation, a parent’s top priority is often where their child will live. In many cases, both parents want custody of their child. While, in general, the information on how to get physical or legal custody of a child is the same in all states,…
In an ideal divorce or separation situation involving children, both parents work together to develop and follow a parenting plan. Even though the parents might not get along, they often try to put their differences aside to make custody exchange stress-free for their child. In some cases, however, conflicts between…
A general overview of the fathers’ rights movement – a social reform initiative advocating a rebuttable presumption of shared parenting and defending the rights of fathers in family law, visitation, and custody decisions. – Today’s divorced and never-married often have the experience of asking for (and receive) joint custody of…
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