Trials often focus on the financial aspects of divorce however couples can also head to trial
over custody arrangements or visitation schedules.
When filing for modification to custody or visitation, file your motion and affidavit with the clerk of the court that currently has jurisdiction
over your custody arrangement.
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.
Just as your kids will grow and change
over time, so should your
custody arrangement.
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
custody and parenting
arrangement lawyers led by Lorne N. MacLean, QC, have noticed how
custody and parenting
arrangements have progressed
over time moving from the one primary parent theory in the 1970's to joint
custody in the 1980's and 1990's but not necessarily equal time to the now more common 50/50 shared parenting time regimes.
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;
However, in a collaborative case, the parents have control
over the process, the decisions that are made, and the parenting
arrangement, all with the help of a mental health professional that is trained to handle
custody related conflicts.
Divorced parents often battle
over child
custody arrangements and child support payments, but the courts treat these items separately.
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.
Divorced parents often battle
over child
custody arrangements and child support payments, but the courts treat these...
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.
Regarding the well being of kids with divorced parents, the debate
over what kind of
custody arrangement is best rages on, but the Swedish study goes against some current thinking that kids in shared -
custody routines are exposed to more stress due to constantly moving back and forth and the social disruption that can come along with it.
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:
Custody and guardianship are two types of legal
arrangements under which an adult assumes legal authority
over and responsibility for the care of someone who can not care for his own basic needs.
The advantage
over full physical
custody to one parent is that this
arrangement ensures that both have «real» parenting time on a regular basis.
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
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 arrangements to visitation rights for each of the parents, and exactly how those rights would be enshrined in law.
Since Kentucky favors joint
custody arrangements over sole
custody, where one parent has physical
custody, legal
custody or both, 50/50 parenting time
arrangements are not uncommon and may come in various forms.
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.
The researchers did observe confirmation of other researchers» findings that shared
custody arrangements over time tend to drift into more traditional sole
custody arrangements.
«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.