A Divorce Attorney often deals with
child custody issues while handling a divorce or a legal separation.
Not exact matches
While representation is not required in a divorce action with
custody issues, divorces involving
children can be complicated.
While in an ideal world,
child custody issues should be mutually agreed on by parents without the difficulty of litigation, this is often not the case.
Settlement Works charges $ 400 an hour to help divorcing couples work out
issues such as
child support and
custody through mediation «
while addressing and healing the unresolved emotional
issues of divorce.»
The court stated that
while there also exists no prohibition to the parties settling the
issues of
custody and
child support by arbitration, the provisions of an award for
custody or
child support will always be reviewable and modifiable by the courts.
In some situations, family law judgments regarding
issues like support and
child custody can be modified without an appeal
while other cases require an appeal to correct an unfair judgment.
If you require legal representation — either to deal with property
issues arising from your divorce, or assist with
child custody / access
issues and / or
child support or spousal support
issues — our skillful family law lawyers will provide you with knowledgeable legal counsel
while protecting your best interests.
There can be
child custody issues where one parent wants to leave and take
children with them,
while the other parent wants to stay in their home.
If you and your spouse agree about
issues of
custody, parenting time,
child support, alimony, and property and debt division, you can incorporate those terms into a settlement agreement and submit it to the court
while you're waiting for Alabama's cooling - off period to elapse.
Their role is to consider what is in the
child's best interests,
while not being bound by emotions that often come with divorce,
child abuse, neglect and other difficult
issues often associated with contested
child custody or divorce cases.
Also know as temporary hearings, is designed to resolve
issues such as, (temporary
child support and / or alimony, temporary
custody of
children, use of assets, who pays what bills, where the parties are going to reside pending the resolution of the divorce case, etc.)
while the divorce is pending.
Less often, a husband and wife will ask an Ohio Court of Common Pleas for a legal separation, leaving their marriage in a holding pattern
while proceeding to decide
issues involving finances,
child custody, visitation and support.
Parents who divorce
while their
child is very young might be faced with a difficult
custody issue if the
child is breastfed, because it's impractical for breastfed
children to be separated for long periods from their mother.
For example, some states have barred courts from
issuing permanent
child custody orders
while a service member is deployed.
Parents who divorce
while their
child is very young might be faced with a difficult
custody issue if the
child is...
While custody issues may be avoided,
child support could still be up for consideration if the
children are in their teens or early 20s and still receiving post-secondary education.
While resolving some of the
child custody issues, they attempt to open the lines of communication between the parties.
While parents struggle over
custody and other major
issues of divorce, their breakup's affect on their
children can be overlooked.
For example, if one parent becomes unfit to care for the couple's
children while the other parent is deployed, a court could
issue temporary
custody orders placing the
children with another family member.
While the amount of
child support paid depends in part on the
custody and visitation arrangement, the two
issues are separate and the custodial parent can not withhold visitation if the noncustodial parent refuses to pay
child support or falls behind.
While mediation over property and money
issues is voluntary in California divorces, the California Family Code requires mediation in cases of
child custody disputes.
Fact: «The sheer prevalence of the problem of violence and the dynamics surrounding it make it clear any assumptions about equal partnership in these cases are out of the question... the majority of women never report the assaults or in fact ever tell anyone about it (Johnson, 1996) and thus may not be believed if the first time the
issue is raised is at the point of separation... may avoid going to court out of fear of retaliation, a fear which is not unfounded given the data on the escalation of violence at separation... agree to whatever the husband wants in an attempt to pacify him... as an exchange for
custody... may appear unstable or emotional
while their batterers are perceived as confident, rational and economically secure (Rosnes, 1997)... all the research flies in the face of what Rosnes argues is presently happening in the courts:»... judges assume that wife abuse is not necessarily damaging to a
child, and that being violent does not necessarily affect a father's parenting ability....
Further, as respecting possible modification, because of past
issues of the defendant failing to comply with orders of the court; providing token compliance with orders of the court
while ignoring the spirit and intent of the orders (including the orders dated December 1, 2010); the defendant's lengthy pattern of contemptuous conduct; the expenses and financial waste caused by the defendant; the substantial financial drain on the resources of the plaintiff and the guardian ad litem caused by the defendant; the pattern of parental alienation; prior false reports of abuse and / or neglect to governmental entities; and the need for repose on the part of the minor
child, it is anticipated that in addition to satisfaction of the foregoing conditions, no modification motion is permitted to be filed by defendant regarding the sole physical and / or sole legal
custody arrangements, except in the case of the plaintiff's total and permanent disability as determined by the Social Security Administration, unless the following conditions are satisfied...» Eisenlohr v. Eisenlohr, 2011 WL 1566201 at * 4 (Conn.Super.).
Parenting coordination and parenting facilitation are specialized mediation services offered to divorced, and divorcing, parents who need assistance in
child - centered dispute resolution and
custody issues,
while developing and implementing workable parenting plans when parents are distracted by their high conflict relationship.
However, as new «non-court» legal processes like mediation and collaborative divorce have developed, lawyers have been able to offer clients a chance to take the high road in resolving their
child custody, alimony, property division, and
child support
issues (
while usually saving untold amounts of time, money and destruction).
Obtaining representation early in the divorce process can often help you resolve property division,
child support,
child custody, visitation
issues while minimizing the legal expenses.
While the best interest standard had been routinely applied to unwed parents, joint
custody raises different
issues because it is a policy that is tied conceptually to divorce and is intended to continue much of the unity attributed to marriage, vis - a-vis the
children.