Obtaining sole custody of a child in Massachusetts requires an understanding of the factors that a judge can consider when making custody decisions.
Obtaining sole custody of your child requires the court to give you both legal and physical custody.
Not exact matches
After having reviewed the two statements
of the complainant and
obtaining email and text communications between J.M. and the complainant for the days leading up to the alleged charges, it was obvious that threats were being made by the complainant to seek
sole custody of the
children and the complainant was being very demeaning in his remarks to J.M. Extensive materials were provided to the Crown including many
of the communications between the parties.
Joseph Neuberger alleged in the defence that the complainant had fabricated the allegations in order to
obtain sole custody of the one
child of the marriage.
Even if a parent is able to
obtain sole custody, the other parent may have visitation rights or other means
of interacting with the
child.
In some situations,
obtaining sole custody is to the best interests
of your
child.
If spouses agree on
custody matters, they may indicate the desire to share
custody of the
children or one parent
obtaining sole custody with visitation rights to the non-custodial parent.
Non-custodial parents who do not have joint
custody would do well to
obtain this type
of document whenever the
child is spending an extended amount
of time away from the parent with
sole custody, and is in the care
of the non-custodial parent.