How a Child’s Opinion Influences Child Custody Cases
Occasionally, parents cite their child’s opinion in residency, access and custody cases, in the hope that this might sway the verdict. On other occasions, the child might want to state their opinion themselves. A child’s opinion might be based on parental conflicts, wanting to be near their friends, or the desire to avoid certain parental discipline (if one of the parents is less...
Child Custody Battles and the Assessor
With many divorce and separation situations come child custody battles. Child custody issues can seem rather one-sided at times. Each side has their own case with reasons as to why they are the better parent and the other parent is the world’s worst parent ever. Each side has a way of convincing others that they are in the right by presenting the story in a certain way. Our divorce...How to Settle Custody Disputes
Parental responsibility is something that continues even after you are divorced. Most parents do so without outside aid, but some do need a bit of help to do so. There is no shame in this, but you do need to realize that benefits and drawbacks of how you might proceed. How to Settle Custody Disputes If you are in a particularly contentious divorce, settling custody disputes is possibly most...Paternity / DNA Tests
A biological parent is responsible for supporting his/her child. If there is any doubt that a father is the child’s biological father, a court can order that this person attend for DNA testing to determine if he is the child’s biological father. (more…)
Section 9 of the Federal Child Support Guidelines – Shared Custody
This section addresses the situation when a spouse “exercises a right of access to, or has physical custody of, a child for not less than 40% of the time over the course of a year”. (more…)