Sentences with phrase «automatically award custody»
States do not automatically award custody to the mother or the father, and sometimes parents share custody of their children.
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Some people are under the incorrect assumption that if they file a custody case and are awarded a custody order, they will automatically receive child support.
It is no longer given that the courts will automatically award a child's custody to the mother in a divorce.
Legal establishment of paternity does not automatically award an unwed father custody; it only means that he's in a position to ask the court for it.
The surviving parent is not automatically awarded child custody upon the other parent's death.
Though courts can award sole custody, thereby giving legal rights to one parent over the other, parents without custody do not automatically lose parental rights.
Historically, courts used to give physical custody of young children to mothers automatically, sometimes because state laws required such awards.
Other issues are determined more or less automatically, like setting child support, awarding the dependency exemption, or determining custody.
While women generally have an advantage here, a mother can not automatically assume she will be awarded custody of the children in contested cases.