Sentences with phrase «obtain custody awards»

Regardless of whether a state has adopted the UCCJEA or retains the UCCJA, both the UCCJEA and the UCCJA are intended, among other things, to avoid jurisdictional competition and conflict with courts of other states in matters of child custody, to discourage continuing controversies over custody, and to deter abductions and other unilateral removals of children undertaken to obtain custody awards.

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There is no reason to explain why he was awarded custody except that he was represented by an attorney who understood how to navigate the court system in order to obtain custody for his client, while Amber was not.

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 faAward 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 faaward of primary custody of his child, over the mother's assertions that he was not the biological father.