Sentences with phrase «of custodial mothers»

Moreover, child support payments amounted to only about 17 % of the total income of custodial mothers and their children in 1989, with the average monthly child support payments made by fathers, not including those who contributed nothing, being 277 dollars (U.S. Bureau of the Census, 1992).

Much of what is known about divorced fathers comes from reports of custodial mothers, surveys, or census data.

In fact, the overall employment status of custodial mothers and custodial fathers looks very different.

Further, 20 % of custodial mothers see no need for the children to continue a relationship with their fathers, and 40 % of children of divorce haven't seen their father in a year.

But, Shephard (1992) reports that there is significant abuse of some custodial mothers by non-residential fathers.

In fact, Shephard (1992) reports that there is significant abuse of some custodial mothers by non-residential fathers.

So, although over 80 % of custodial parents were women, 36.8 % of custodial mothers were never married.

According to the US Census Bureau, only 37 percent of custodial mothers receive the full child support payments they are due.

Further, 20 % of custodial mothers see no need for the children to continue a relationship with their fathers, and 40 % of children of divorce haven't seen their father in a year.

Not exact matches

Susan's preference for her father is quite firm; Mary Lee's desire to be in the same household as Susan predominates over her choice of her mother as the custodial parent.

Approximately 84 % of custodial parents are mothers who are carrying a large burden.

The 2014 case of H - R (Children)[2014] EWCC B80 (Fam)(11 April 2014) illustrates that even when faced with a mother who had repeatedly breached a contact order and then failed to attend court on three occasions in connection with enforcement hearings the court can be reluctant to go as far as imposing a custodial sentence.

A too sizable portion of my practice time is spent counseling custodial parents (typically mothers) not to undermine the other parent.

The question presented was whether the trial court erroneously assigned to the mother the burden to prove that the child's placement with her was in the child's best interests, because an established custodial environment existed with the grandparents, and whether the court's application of the Rummelt test constituted clear legal error and violated mother's fundamental liberty interest in raising her children.

According to census data, more than 80 percent of custodial parents around the country are mothers.

Accordingly, [the mother] and / or [the father] do not have general preferential custodial status over [the grandmother] simply because they are the biological parents of [the boy], but the difference in their blood relationships with [the boy] will be one of the factors considered by the court in determining [his] best interests.

Firstly, the mother should not be given undue benefit for her actions in a «direct violation of the father's custodial rights» (at para 83).

Wyoming courts do not consider the gender of the parents when making custody decisions, so either the mother or father may be the primary custodial parent.

Add the percentages of custodial time for all three children together and divide by the number of children (50 % plus 50 % plus 30 % = 130 % divided by three children = 43.33 % average percentage of time with Mother).

Whereas in the past, rules were oriented on fixed age brackets and the gender of the parent and child, they have increasingly been formulated in favour of the principle of the best interests of the child and / or in favour of the mother through an extension of the custodial time period afforded to her as a matter of law.

Pullman v. Pullman 2000 BCSC 1654 After nine days of trial during which the mother sought sole custody with limited visitation by the children to their father, and a Section 15 Report by Robert Colby recommended that the mother be the primary residential parent, Mr. Justice MacKinnon ordered that the two daughters of the marriage, aged five and seven, be under the joint custodial care of both parents and that a shared parenting schedule of week on week off be implemented.

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.

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

The courts may not give any preference to mothers or fathers because there is no presumption in Nebraska that parents of either gender are more fit or more suitable to be custodial parents, make decisions, or provide childcare.

Today, eight out of ten custodial parents are mothers, but until the beginning of the twentieth century, fathers routinely were awarded custody.

The labors of solo parenting, aggravated by financial woes and worries, leave many custodial mothers harried and haggard.

According to research, about half of all children in joint physical custody see both parents at least weekly, compared to one in 10 children in traditional custody arrangements (custodial mother, noncustodial father).

The emotional and psychological wear and tear on the mother, who, even if she has a cooperative former spouse, often transforms the custodial mother into an enervated and exhausted bundle of nerves.

While many men now contend that maternal custody of the children unfairly penalizes them (particularly former wives who use denied visitation as a way of punishing former husbands), mothers who are custodial parents appear to suffer more financially as a result, even when they are receiving child support.

Most courts approve a good faith move by a custodial mother that does not adversely affect the best interest of the child.

Most courts approve a good faith move by a custodial parent that does not adversely affect the best interests of the child, particularly when the mother is the sole custodial parent.

Very often the custodial parent (usually the mother) will seek to modify the child support she receives on ground of a change in economic circumstances occasioned by increases in the cost of living.

«Perhaps the most significant factor that helps us to understand why custodial mothers lack a discourse with which to voice their concerns... is that they must fight against a dominant discourse that controls all the terms of the modern custody debate.

Previously, the presumption was that the mother would be the custodial parent and the father would pay 100 % of the child support.

Comparisons were made to determine whether the custodial mother's number of dating partners, remarriage courtship length, or the timing and sequence of typical courtship stages affected the child's adjustment and his or her relationships with the residential parents after remarriage.

Although an unmarried mother's name on a child's birth certificate is sufficient proof of her custodial rights, it is not the same for an unmarried father.

For example, if the child is an infant or very young child, the non-custodial father gets several shorter periods of visitation during the week, especially if the custodial mother is breastfeeding the child.

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.

Unwed, custodial mothers reported that about half of fathers who paid no formal support made informal contributions, with one - third paying for clothing and about one - fourth paying for food.

There was a time in history when the mother of a young child had an absolute right to be the full - time, custodial parent of the child.

For other cases holding that proposed relocation requests which would result in the effective termination of a shared physical custodial arrangement should be treated as a modification of custody, see, e.g., Lewellyn v. Lewellyn, 351 Ark. 346, 93 S.W. 3d 681 (2002)(both mother and father petitioned for sole custody of children after mother's proposed relocation would make parties» shared physical custodial arrangement unworkable; court found that mother's relocation constituted material change of circumstances warranting award of sole custody to father, even though such a relocation would not be considered a material change in circumstances in a case that did not involve shared physical custody), and In re Marriage of Garst, 955 P. 2d 1056 (Colo..

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.

[F] athers most frequently make intentionally false reports [while] mothers and children [are the] least likely to fabricate reports of abuse or neglect... [D] eliberate fabrication of abuse by custodial parents is relatively low, alleviating the concerns that there is a widespread problem of custodial parents trying to manipulate the legal system or seek vengeance against their former partners... diverting attention from the more prevalent problems of unsubstantiated allegations made in good faith and unresolved investigations where suspicions of abuse or neglect remain but can not be confirmed.

Of the intentionally false allegations of maltreatment... custodial parents (usually mothers) and children [are] least likely to fabricate reports of abuse or neglect.&raquOf the intentionally false allegations of maltreatment... custodial parents (usually mothers) and children [are] least likely to fabricate reports of abuse or neglect.&raquof maltreatment... custodial parents (usually mothers) and children [are] least likely to fabricate reports of abuse or neglect.&raquof abuse or neglect.»

Based on interviews with pairs of custodial and non-custodial parents, custodial mothers interfere with fathers» visits with their children at a rate of 20 % - 40 %.

Terminology: In order to reaffirm our commitment of raising our child (ren) in a dual - household status, we choose to use the terms «live with mother» and «live with father» in describing our arrangement, rather than in terms of custody / primary and non - custodial / access as may be defined in other legal documents.

Faced with the economic and emotional challenges of parenting, many custodial teen parents — nearly all of them mothers — drop out of school and turn to welfare to support themselves and their children.

Gone are the days of mother as default custodial parent with father having Wednesday night dinners and every other weekend.

The program's effects were assessed using unemployment insurance records, child support agency records, and surveys of a subset of fathers in the study and the custodial mothers of their children.