Under Alabama law, a court may consider an award of joint custody, whereby the parental rights of both parties remain intact, with one parent as the
primary custodian of the children and the other as the secondary custodian.
«In this Court's Judgment Entry of August 4, 2004, the Court noted that Dr. Eileen Leininger informed the Court that there was strong evidence of parental alienation syndrome of the children towards their father, the Plaintiff, while they have been with the Defendant, who is the residential parent and
legal custodian of the children.»
The time necessary to enable the party seeking maintenance to acquire appropriate education, training, and employment, and whether that party is able to support himself or herself through appropriate employment or is
the custodian of a child making it appropriate that the custodian not seek employment.6.
It asked, therefore, whether Article 20 TFEU (citizenship) precluded the refusal of a residence permit to a TCN in a situation where his spouse had custody of a Union citizen child, notably in a situation where he was not the biological father, nor
a custodian of that child.
One spouse lacks sufficient property to meet his or her needs and / or the spouse is
the custodian of a child whose physical or mental incapacity requires the custodian to forego employment.
Child support is typically paid to the primary caretaker /
custodian of the child (ren) by the other parent.
They may argue they are
the custodian of a child of such young age he or she should not be expected to work, had a marriage of long duration and is of such an age he or she should not be expected to return to the workforce or contributed to the educational opportunities of the other spouse.
When a person or couple becomes
the custodian of a child, this does not legally sever other family relationships as in the case of adoption and may be reversed at a later time when circumstances change.
The court may order either spouse to make maintenance payments, either rehabilitative or permanent in nature, to the other spouse if it finds that the spouse seeking maintenance needs the income and lacks property or both, or is unable to support himself or herself through appropriate employment at the standard of living established during the marriage, or is
the custodian of a child of the parties.
Contrarily, joint custody or shared custody of a child is a situation in which both parents separately have parental custody of the child, but each take turns being
the custodian of the child.
Grounds: Visitation may be granted if the grandparent has established or has attempted to establish ongoing personal contact with the child and
the custodian of the child has denied the grandparent reasonable opportunity to visit the child.
The time necessary to enable the party seeking maintenance to acquire appropriate education, training, and employment, and whether that party is able to support herself through appropriate employment or is
the custodian of a child making it appropriate that the custodian not seek employment
Generally, the parent that is the primary physical
custodian of the child would receive support from the other parent.
In many divorce cases, courts name one parent as the primary
custodian of the children and grant the other parent visitation rights.