This is an extremely important case in the ongoing struggle to ensure that everyone has access to our justice system to resolve disputes such as
who has custody of children after parents separate.
When married couples are either separated or pursuing a divorce, most states hold that both
parents have custody of the child until a court order is entered stating otherwise.
If you continue to pay a child's medical bills after the divorce, you can include those costs in your medical expense deduction even if your
ex-spouse has custody of the child and claims the dependency exemption.
Often, when parents aren't married there is a custody decree from a court that spells out who does and does not
have custody of a child with respect to issues like medical care, but it does not appear that this is the case here.
When one parent
has custody of a child in Pennsylvania, the other parent — the non-custodial parent — typically has certain rights and obligations.
In the typical situation where
mothers have custody of the children, fathers who are involved in their children's lives are also the fathers whose child support is paid and who contribute to extraordinary expenses for a child: things like soccer, music lessons, the prom dress, or a special class trip.
A contract between two agencies whereby the
agency having custody of the child pays the agency working on behalf of the adoptive family for recruitment, placement, and post-placement services.
If a third party
already has custody of a child, the natural parent must prove that a change in custody, particularly custody given to the parent, would benefit the child's physical and emotional well being.
If she doesn't file for child custody, for states that presume two parents who sign a birth
certificate have custody of the child, an unwed mother may be left with little recourse against a father.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr., writing for the majority, said ICWA's parental rights requirements don't apply to a parent who
never had custody of the child before the case.
is unable to be self - supporting through employment or
has custody of a child whose condition or circumstances make it appropriate for the spouse not to be required to work outside the home.
If defendant was not going to agree to let
plaintiff have custody of the children — and he wasn't — she decided to do what in her opinion was the next best thing: let the children stay with defendant.
Because Halloween is on a Friday, it could also be the case that your former spouse did not purchase your child a costume, knowing that you will
have custody of your child during trick - or - treating hours.
If the parent who
has custody of the children denies access to the grandparent, Heft says there are only two options: the elders can go to court and have a judge order it, or they can convince the parent to go to mediation or family therapy.
If you
unofficially have custody of your child and would like to make it official under the law, then you should consider investing in the services of a legal professional, especially when dealing with child custody laws for unmarried parents.
Provides for cash assistance if the court has placed a child with a nonparent relative, the child's parents are deceased and the child is living with a such relative, or if a non-parent
relative has custody of the child because the child is abandoned.
If a mother changes her mind about adoption before the making of the adoption order, but the adopting parents refuse to give up the child, she may then institute legal proceedings to
have custody of her child returned to her.
If the child's parents are divorced or legally separated, and the parent who
had custody of the child for the greater part of the year (the custodial parent) hasn't remarried, use the return of the custodial parent.
In determining the division of marital property, the court is required under 5/503 (d) to consider the desirability of awarding the family home, or the right to live in the home for reasonable periods, to the
spouse having custody of the children.
If you continue to pay your child's medical bills after the divorce, you can include those costs in your medical expense deductions even if your
ex-spouse has custody of the child and claims the dependency exemption.
This article explains how the occurrence of domestic violence impacts a court's determination of which parent should
have custody of a child in New Mexico.
The adoption agency and the county
agency having custody of the child shall determine the scope and detail of information which shall be provided so that the prospective parent may make an informed decision to adopt.
The grandparents brought a motion for the court's permission to have these requirements waived for them, arguing that — since they had
already had custody of the child — the requirements should not apply to them.
Gardner (1989) uses this to claim that «Parental Alienation Syndrome» appears most commonly in females, although it's suggested possible for a male
who has custody of the children to engage in the same type of alienating behaviors.
In Louisiana, if parents agree on who will
have custody of a child after separation, the court will order an arrangement in line with the custody agreement unless it fails to serve the child's best interests.
According the Child Support Guidelines, the income of the payor and which
parent has custody of the child are the largest determinants of the amount of child support.
I used the word abandonment purposefully because that's how men who don't
have custody of their children are described, even if they are engaged with their kids as you are, and so what's fair is fair.