Sentences with phrase «become custodial mothers»

The truth be told, many good mothers face a lot of bad days when they become custodial mothers.

Not exact matches

In the vast majority of cases, when custody is contested, courts award physical (or primary) custody to the mother, who becomes the custodial parent, and visitation... Continue reading →

Although the so called Tender Years Doctrine, which favored mothers as the custodial parent of children in the tender years, has become abolished by statute in some jurisdictions, courts still tend to award children to mothers.

In most divorces, one parent, often the mother, becomes custodial and the other, the father, pays support.

In the vast majority of cases, when custody is contested, courts award physical (or primary) custody to the mother, who becomes the custodial parent, and visitation rights («parenting time») to the father, who is the noncustodial parent and who also pays child support.

However, if the father becomes the custodial parent, he has a right to request child support from the child's mother.

And children become alienated against custodial parents (traditionally mothers), as well as parents with less parenting time (traditionally fathers).

In second marriages, the climb becomes even steeper when a spouse finds himself caught, for example, between the financial demands of a former wife, who is the custodial mother of his children, and his new wife, who believes the first wife is just being greedy.