Divorced parents often battle
over child custody arrangements and child support payments, but the courts treat these...
Divorced parents often battle
over child custody arrangements and child support payments, but the courts treat these items separately.
Not exact matches
Example: Mother and Father are divorced, and agree to a true joint
custody arrangement over Child.
These
custody arrangements are rare, and are usually limited to situations in which one parent has been deemed unfit or incapable of having any form of responsibility
over a
child — for example, due to drug addiction or evidence of
child abuse.
The stress of a divorce, with its hearings
over settlements and
custody arrangements if there are
children involved, can quickly eclipse any thoughts of financial planning for yourself.
Our founding fathers» rights lawyer, Mark Werner, will personally handle your case based upon his
over 15 years experience and help you understand your rights and your options for pursuing a
custody arrangement that protects your
child's best interests.
a. Those who are the subject of international parental disputes
over custody or contact; b. Those who are the subject of international abduction (including in those states which are not able to join the 1980 Hague
Child Abduction Convention); c. Those who are placed abroad in alternative care
arrangements which do not come within the definition of adoption and are therefore outside the scope of the 1993 Hague Inter-country Adoption Convention; d. Those who are the subject of cross-border trafficking and other forms of exploitation, including sexual abuse; e. Those who are refugees or unaccompanied minors.
S. 9 of the FCSG — if one spouse has the right to access or
custody of
child for 40 % or more of time
over the year, quantum of support based on amount set out in table, increased cost of shared
custody arrangement and condition, means, needs and other circumstances of each spouse and of the
children;
Matters of
custody can also be challenged and changed
over the years, with some parents voluntarily modifying
child custody arrangements and others challenging an
arrangement that no longer seems to be serving the best interest of the
child or
children involved.
Your decree may contain terms that require immediate compliance — such as turning
over possession of a vehicle — and terms that require continual compliance — such as
child support, alimony or
custody arrangements.
For example, if you are in disagreement
over child custody, the court may require further investigation to decide what living
arrangements are best for your
child.
When
children are involved and there are concerns related to parenting plans, visitation, and / or
custody arrangement, a
child mental health professional trained in collaborative practice may also be retained by the parties to have individual meetings with parents and
children, attend collaborative «five - way» meetings (two clients, two attorneys, and one
child specialist), consultation through meetings, conference calls, and email communication with the divorce coaches about
child - and parent - related issues, and provide intervention to resolve
child - related disputes as they may arise
over the course of the collaborative divorce process.
For the purposes of clarifying some of this confusion, let's take a moment to go
over the differences between joint legal and joint physical
custody, as well as some of the many ways choosing a joint physical
custody arrangement can help both you and your
children.
Couples fighting
over the
custody of their
children need psychologists to support their version of a custodial
arrangement serving the best interests of the
children.
Child custody laws prohibit the court to presume a
custody arrangement over another without carefully weighing the following factors:
Courts in Mississippi do not like to disrupt
children's lives because of divorce, so whatever
custody arrangement the court awards during the temporary hearing is likely to carry
over into the final decree, especially if it's working well and has become the norm.
There have actually been some quite recent changes to the way that Texas
Child Custody Laws have been set down in the statute books, with major changes in September 2007 signalling a whole raft of over 300 different alterations that impacted on everything from child custody arrangements to visitation rights for each of the parents, and exactly how those rights would be enshrined in
Child Custody Laws have been set down in the statute books, with major changes in September 2007 signalling a whole raft of over 300 different alterations that impacted on everything from child custody arrangements to visitation rights for each of the parents, and exactly how those rights would be enshrined
Custody Laws have been set down in the statute books, with major changes in September 2007 signalling a whole raft of
over 300 different alterations that impacted on everything from
child custody arrangements to visitation rights for each of the parents, and exactly how those rights would be enshrined in
child custody arrangements to visitation rights for each of the parents, and exactly how those rights would be enshrined
custody arrangements to visitation rights for each of the parents, and exactly how those rights would be enshrined in law.
SFI determined that equal
custody arrangements are easier for small
children to tolerate than for teenagers who want more control
over their clothes, rooms, schedules, and proximity to friends.
You have a sole
custody arrangement if your
child spends more than 60 percent of the time with one of you
over the course of a year.
Example: Mother and Father are divorced, and agree to a true joint
custody arrangement over Child.
«Studies have consistently demonstrated that conflict between ex-spouses
over custody,
child support, visiting
arrangements, and other issues is associated with poor adjustment among
children of divorce (Johnston et al. 1989).
'' [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)...»
Sole
custody arrangements occur when one parent has sole decision - making authority
over the
child and that parent's home is the
child's primary place of residence, even though the other parent may still get visitation.
These groups seek to regain control
over spouses who are divorcing them, usually through forced marriage counseling or enacting extreme economic penalties for filing for divorce, including loss of
custody, loss of marital assets, and forced joint physical
custody arrangements where the
child is shuffled between incongruent households so that the father can avoid paying
child support.
Sole
custody is a
custody arrangement in which one parent has sole decision - making authority
over the
child in addition...
In practice, it frequently devolves post-order and
over time into a time - share
arrangement that differs little from traditional sole
custody with visitation (but differs a lot in the amount of the
child support order.)
Fact: «Studies have consistently demonstrated that conflict between ex-spouses
over custody,
child support, visiting
arrangements, and other issues is associated with poor adjustment among
children of divorce (Johnston et al. 1989).
When parents decide to end their marriage, they often disagree about
custody arrangements for their
children, and battles
over who will retain primary
custody can be an especially contentious part of divorce proceedings.
So far from these topics being off - limits, any MHP seeking appointment in a court case needs to fully inform the parties prior to their consent [123], of information about the following kinds of potentials for bias and agenda: whether the MHP has been married or divorced, and how many times, and under what kinds of circumstances, and how the MHP currently feels about those events; whether, if divorced, the MHP went through litigation
over custody or property, and such details as whether the MHP had problems paying or receiving
child support, as well as the
custody arrangements of the MHP's own
children and how these worked out and everyone's feelings about them; the MHP's own personal experience taking care of and spending time with
children, within and without the scope of «parenting», and with regard to parenting, whether that was parenting as a primary caregiver, married or single parent, with or without household and third party help, or as a working parent or stay - home parent, and for how many
children, and for how long, and the outcomes from all of that; i.e. how much time has this person actually spent caring for
children on his or her own, and how well did this person's own family systems function, and is this person in fact an «expert» in creating a functioning family and raising happy, healthy, successful
children with good outcomes, nay «best» outcomes, thoroughly well - adjusted and having reached the very pinnacles of their innate potential.
In sole legal
custody arrangements, only one parent has final decision - making authority
over the
child.