While nothing in the law prohibits it explicitly, I've never understood how attorneys can counsel their male clients to demand DNA paternity testing, especially for a child born in their marriage, while
seeking joint custody of that child.
When a man went to Toronto family lawyer Gene C. Colman in the mid-1980s
seeking joint custody of his children, Colman warned him to prepare for a... Read more
Not exact matches
If you
seek full or
joint custody of the
children — or if you just want a generous visitation schedule — staying in the house will help your cause.
In December 2005, the father filed for dissolution
of marriage and
sought joint custody of the minor
children.
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.
If the other parent files for
custody first and seeks sole custody, you must indicate in your response that you are seeking joint custody by filing either the Responsive Declaration to Request for Order form or the Response to Petition for Custody and Support of Minor Childre
custody first and
seeks sole
custody, you must indicate in your response that you are seeking joint custody by filing either the Responsive Declaration to Request for Order form or the Response to Petition for Custody and Support of Minor Childre
custody, you must indicate in your response that you are
seeking joint custody by filing either the Responsive Declaration to Request for Order form or the Response to Petition for Custody and Support of Minor Childre
custody by filing either the Responsive Declaration to Request for Order form or the Response to Petition for
Custody and Support of Minor Childre
Custody and Support
of Minor
Children form.
A different analysis may be required when parents share
joint physical
custody of the minor
children under an existing order and in fact, and one parent
seeks to relocate with the minor
children.
If parties have a
joint custody arrangement, the parent
seeking modification
of custody must show how both parents are unable to cooperate with one another and agree on the best interests
of the
child; thus, sole
custody would be a more appropriate arrangement.
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.
The Jaramillo court further held that once a party
seeking to relocate has demonstrated that the
joint custody arrangement is no longer workable, both parties share equally the burden
of demonstrating with which parent the
child's best interests will be served.
[3] See Joan Zorza, Protecting the
Children in
Custody Disputes When One Parent Abuses the Other, 29 Clearinghouse Rev. 1113, 1117, 1119 (1996)[hereinafter Zorza, Protecting the Children](noting that batterers are more likely than non-batterers to seek custody and that fathers who actually seek custody win sole or joint custody 70 % of the
Custody Disputes When One Parent Abuses the Other, 29 Clearinghouse Rev. 1113, 1117, 1119 (1996)[hereinafter Zorza, Protecting the
Children](noting that batterers are more likely than non-batterers to
seek custody and that fathers who actually seek custody win sole or joint custody 70 % of the
custody and that fathers who actually
seek custody win sole or joint custody 70 % of the
custody win sole or
joint custody 70 % of the
custody 70 %
of the time).
Myth — Early feminists
sought to throw off the shackles
of having to care for their
children and supported
joint custody.