Sentences with phrase «custody over a mother»

A: In most states, an unwed father often can not win custody over a mother who is a good parent.

An unwed father often can not win custody over a mother who is a good parent, but he will usually take priority over other relatives, foster parents, or prospective adoptive parents.

An unwed father can not win primary physical custody over a mother who is a good parent, but he may be able to establish some custody or visitation rights.

Not exact matches

Another may presume custody for the father (if he is suitable) in the event a wife / mother abandons the husband and the children are over 7 years old.

They share real stories based on personal experience on relationship trouble, infidelity, raising children as single mothers, the battles the had over child support and custody, emotional struggles, dating again and as step - mothers in blended families.

Example: Mother and Father are divorced, and agree to a true joint custody arrangement over Child.

A 17 - year - old Junior High School pupil, [name withheld], is in police custody for allegedly killing his mother over his missing mobile phone memory card.

Starring Viola Davis as an embattled family court judge with a fraught marriage of her own; Hayden Panettiere as a recent law - school grad flung into a custody case; and Catalina Sandino Moreno as the single mother at the center of the case who risks losing her two children over an ill - timed argument.

The only film that disappointed me was «Custody,» despite the consistently stellar Viola Davis as a weary family court judge who presides over a case involving a young single Hispanic mother whose children are taken away when one of them suffers a concussion.

I suspect that at least some of them are complaining that family courts «favour the mother over the father» in support and custody matters.

In 2012, Ms. Simon received the Denise O'Donnell Day Award from the Idaho State Bar for her pro bono representation of a single father who ultimately obtained a paternity order and award of primary custody of his child, over the mother's assertions that he was not the biological father.

The concept of «men's rights» in marital law stems from the apparent historical preference of family courts to grant mothers custody rights over the children, relegating fathers to holidays and weekends.

TORONTO — Two Canadian children at the centre of a protracted custody dispute must return to their father in Germany over their objections and against the wishes of their mother, Ontario's top court ruled Tuesday.

Such gender based classifications can not survive strict scrutiny as there is no «compelling governmental interest» that favors mothers over fathers in determinations of infant custody and, even if there were, a -LSB-...]

A growing number of disputed custody cases since 2006 have demonstrated that a mother, or a father, from all social classes, who cut off the child's contact with the other parent, not seldom in combination with allegations of abuse or psychiatric problems, easily can take control over the child and influence the child to reject the other parent without any objective reason — as the investigations made by the police or by consulting psychiatric records show.

In most contested cases, mothers are awarded sole — or effectively sole — custody over children, with fathers relegated to the role of visitors, an unsatisfactory situation for them and for their children.

In 1999, research indicated that mothers received custody 91.2 percent of the time when parents went to court over...

In a recent Superior Court family law matter, the judge said the OCL should have «pulled the plug» on one of its investigators after she «glossed over» the mother's allegations of domestic violence and substance abuse by her former partner, and recommended the pair have joint custody of their daughter, with equal time - sharing.

When actress Choi Jin - sil, who had sole custody of her two children after divorce, committed suicide in October 2008, there was heated discussion over who should be awarded custody of the children because the actress» mother did not want the father to raise the children, and many pointed out that the system needs to be overhauled.

Joint custody imposed over a mother's objections can interfere with the flourishing of healthy mother - daughter relationships.

[Over the period in which this author monitored the 200 - 300 member listserve, the above stability argument was not raised by an MHP in any case that was going the other way, i.e. moving a young child who had been primarily in the mother's custody to joint custody or into father custody.

Our laws specifically state that there is no advantage given to the mother over the father in child custody situations, but in reality, the mother will usually have the advantage.

Notably, even back then, the Court researchers found that fathers» rights advocates were distorting reality: «We heard testimony from George Kelly, a representative of Concerned Fathers, that in contested custody cases, mothers are awarded physical custody over 90 % of the time.

The child, who is loyal to both of his or her parents, does not want to choose between his or her mother and father battling over custody and other affairs.

In 1999, research indicated that mothers received custody 91.2 percent of the time when parents went to court over their children.

New Jersey custody laws do not allow the courts to prefer mothers over fathers when parents have custody disputes.

The uphill struggle of fathers over their children's full custody is supported by another data from the Census, which revealed that 83 percent of the custodial parents are mothers, Huffington Post reports.

Over the past few decades, Father's Rights advocates have slowly been chipping away at the assumption that mothers should always have sole custody of the kids in divorce.

The father and mother may sign a joint stipulation to paternity, and they may submit it to the family division of the circuit court, which has jurisdiction over child custody matters.

Disputes over custody can hit a snag when a child's mother denies that an estranged or ex-husband or lover is the...

It's a common misperception that courts favor mothers over fathers in child custody cases.

[Joint custody ordered, over child's refusal to be with the mother.]»

In this case, the Mother's conduct was clearly connected to her goal of undermining the Father's relationship with Jacob, denying the Father access to his son, obtaining sole custody for herself and retaining control over Jacob.

«CONSIDERING that the Mother's behaviour is tantamount to constituting, according to the evidence, a case of parental alienation, while also ignoring that under Quebec law, both the Mother and the Father exercise jointly the parental authority over their child; FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT... MAINTAINS the Father's Motion; GRANTS joint legal custody of the child [orders mother to return child to the father at her own cost, psychosocial evaluation of the child, reserves right to father to bring motion for sole custody or to modify terms if mother stays in Canada longer than summer months].&Mother's behaviour is tantamount to constituting, according to the evidence, a case of parental alienation, while also ignoring that under Quebec law, both the Mother and the Father exercise jointly the parental authority over their child; FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT... MAINTAINS the Father's Motion; GRANTS joint legal custody of the child [orders mother to return child to the father at her own cost, psychosocial evaluation of the child, reserves right to father to bring motion for sole custody or to modify terms if mother stays in Canada longer than summer months].&Mother and the Father exercise jointly the parental authority over their child; FOR THESE REASONS, THE COURT... MAINTAINS the Father's Motion; GRANTS joint legal custody of the child [orders mother to return child to the father at her own cost, psychosocial evaluation of the child, reserves right to father to bring motion for sole custody or to modify terms if mother stays in Canada longer than summer months].&mother to return child to the father at her own cost, psychosocial evaluation of the child, reserves right to father to bring motion for sole custody or to modify terms if mother stays in Canada longer than summer months].&mother stays in Canada longer than summer months].»

Ironically, over just a short period of years, «joint custody» then became just another adversarial, fighting term, as fathers increasingly wanted it, and mothers increasingly did not.

He did opine that if the court found that [Mother's] consistent attempts over the years to alienate the children from their father is the primary issue, then the children should live with [Father] and custody should change.

Example: Mother and Father are divorced, and agree to a true joint custody arrangement over Child.

'' [M] aternal custody arrangements appear to be more stable than other arrangements: children who live with their mother after divorce are more likely to remain in this arrangement during the first three to four years after separation, while over half of the children who start out by spending time in each parent's household or who start out living with their father make at least one change (Maccoby & Mnookin, 1992)...»

As parenting roles have changed over time, the father may not agree that the mother should gain physical custody of the children.