Sentences with phrase «award custody using»

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When deciding to award sole custody, the court will make a decision using the best interest of the child standard.

In Massachusetts, courts use several criteria to establish custody of children born out of wedlock; custody can be awarded to the mother, the father or to both parents together.

In this case, the motion judges» three factual findings of: (i) the need for the father to pursue lengthy custody and access litigation in order to have any relationship with his children; (ii) the mother's failure to pay anything toward the costs ordered by the Court of Appeal; and (iii) the fact that the mother thwarted the enforcement of the costs award by reneging on assurances she made to the court about her intent to pay the costs and not use bankruptcy to thwart that payment, ground the finding of prejudice.

Many states and courts use a standard visitation order, sometimes called a standard possession order, when a judge awards shared physical custody.

Historically, courts used to give physical custody of young children to mothers automatically, sometimes because state laws required such awards.

Joint or sole custody may be awarded based on the best interests of the child and other factors that include 1) the preference of the child, 2) the desire and ability of each parent to allow an open and loving relationship between the child and the other parent, 3) the childs health, safety and welfare, the nature and contact with both parents and 4) the history of alcohol and drug use.

Although most experts believe that a child has a least two (2) psychological parents, it is sometimes used as a clinical argument to award sole custody on the basis of averting risk the child may develop an attachment disorder.

This Berkeley - educated, award - winning (see curriculum vitae below) child psychologist created the Emotional Availability Scales, the system for scientifically understanding parent - child connections, which is used worldwide in research studies in clinical work with parents and children, and in child custody evaluations.

The New Jersey courts use different standards to determine initial custody awards versus requests for changes to an established custody order.

[FN100] The * 793 use of a standard parenting plan form provided by the court may be useful to parents and judges when joint custody is to be awarded.

In the past, courts used to frequently award mothers sole custody of the children.