Sentences with phrase «arrangements for raising children»

Separation may require meetings to work out arrangements for raising children and dividing property and possessions.

Not exact matches

It is evident from modern society that marriage and commitment are beneficial, both in terms of a stable environment for raising children and as a safe and relatively non-contentious arrangement for se - xual relationships.

It is important to note that an open arrangement, for many women, is the deciding factor in whether or not a woman raises their child or gives their child up for adoption.

That means there is so far no way of determining which familial arrangements might be optimal for raising children: parents working with grandparents, siblings raising children together, or some other arrangement.

Iowa law requires that the court must consider the best interest of the child and order a custody arrangement that will give the child the chance for maximum continuing physical and emotional contact with both parents after the parents have separated and dissolved the marriage, and which will encourage parents to share the rights and responsibilities of raising the child unless physical harm or significant emotional harm to the child, other children, or a parent is likely to occur.

What starts as a professional spark turns into a romantic one after Olive confesses her love for both Elizabeth and William; the three would go on to live together and raise children together as a trio, an arrangement that was even more taboo in the 1940s than it is today.

There's 21 mm more room between the first and second - row while the three - row / seven - seat arrangement is raised slightly allowing a better view forward for children.

They need somewhere to raise their concerns and have the parenting arrangements for their children clearly spelled out.

If a parent's living arrangements include providing a home for children from another relationship, expenses related to raising those children may reduce the parent's calculated income for the purpose of determining child support.

Collaborative Law is worth considering if some or all of the following are true for you: (a) you want a civilized, rational resolution of the issues, (b) you would like to keep open the possibility of a viable working relationship with your partner down the road, (c) you and your partner will be raising children together and you want the best working relationship possible, (d) you want to protect your children from the harm associated with litigation between parents, (e) you have ethical or spiritual beliefs that place high value on taking personal responsibility for handling conflicts with integrity, (f) you value control and autonomous decision making and do not want to hand over decisions about restructuring your financial and parenting arrangements to a stranger (a judge), (g) you recognize the restricted and often unpredictable range of outcomes and «rough justice» generally available in the public court system and want a more creative and individualized range of choices available to you and your spouse or partner for resolving the issues.

A grandparent or another caregiver who has taken responsibility for raising a child may seek a formal arrangement from an Ohio court.

A grandparent or another caregiver who has taken responsibility for raising a child may seek a formal arrangement from...

A legally ordered arrangement, for parents who do not live together, by which neither parent is considered the sole custodial parent but equally share the rights and responsibilities for raising the child (ren).

In recent years, the responsible fatherhood field has expanded beyond its roots in employment and parenting services for low - income fathers, recognizing the need to also help fathers enhance their relationship skills.4 Research indicates that children raised by both parents in low ‐ conflict homes achieve better scores, on average, for a host of indicators.5 Non-residential fathers face various communication and relationship challenges that can affect engagement with their children and willingness to pay child support.6 By providing services to help fathers communicate openly in healthy, cooperative parenting relationships, programs can improve potential outcomes for children, irrespective of their parents» living arrangements.

Another example raises the question of what influences advocacy, this one from a woman lawyer and AFCC activist who inexplicably lobbies for joint custody and father's rights (and more therapeutic jurisprudence in the courts) even though the arrangement worked for neither herself as a child, nor, ultimately, her own daughter: [ANONYMOUS LISTSERVE COMMENT]: «In personal life, we learn things about the day to day realities too, that influence the lenses through which we see life.

The consideration of one parent's financial ability to support a custody arrangement should not discriminate against the parent who stayed home to raise the children or whose earning capacity is less for a number of reasons, including status in the society.

So far from these topics being off - limits, any MHP seeking appointment in a court case needs to fully inform the parties prior to their consent [123], of information about the following kinds of potentials for bias and agenda: whether the MHP has been married or divorced, and how many times, and under what kinds of circumstances, and how the MHP currently feels about those events; whether, if divorced, the MHP went through litigation over custody or property, and such details as whether the MHP had problems paying or receiving child support, as well as the custody arrangements of the MHP's own children and how these worked out and everyone's feelings about them; the MHP's own personal experience taking care of and spending time with children, within and without the scope of «parenting», and with regard to parenting, whether that was parenting as a primary caregiver, married or single parent, with or without household and third party help, or as a working parent or stay - home parent, and for how many children, and for how long, and the outcomes from all of that; i.e. how much time has this person actually spent caring for children on his or her own, and how well did this person's own family systems function, and is this person in fact an «expert» in creating a functioning family and raising happy, healthy, successful children with good outcomes, nay «best» outcomes, thoroughly well - adjusted and having reached the very pinnacles of their innate potential.