Sometimes your kids just prefer to live with your ex, and depending on their ages, the court will take their preference into consideraton and award custody to the “favored” parent. Indeed the older the children, the more weight their “custody preference” will have.
Generally speaking, I believe that unless there is some special clause in their custodial agreement that requires him to get her permission a parent does not need to seek the custodial parent’s permission. After all, these are the noncustodial parent’s children as well.
Sometimes, divorce leaves a parent homeless. It may not happen right away, but over time, (and not such a long time) a custodial parent could find themselves unable to pay the rent or mortgage and end up without a home. And when that happens, the kids’ lives are in peril pretty quick. This happens not …
We’ve been doing a lot of posts about teens & divorce lately. That is because of the dire statistics and information that we have been reading up on, that suggest that divorce is particularly damaging to children, and especially to teenagers. The question we are now asking ourselves, is whether, in New York, Governor Paterson …
It seems more divorcing couples in Arizona are doing divorce right: through mediation and collaboration. This makes for a friendlier situation that benefits kids. Check out this article in the Arizona Republic that was published today. Why can’t more states follow suit? Well, you know what? I think they will. That is just the trend. This combative, adversarial …
Read moreARIZONA: How to get a friendly divorce that even your kids will like
Faustino Utrera is in jail following his arrest for child abduction 15 years ago. He abducted his own children and took them from their mom (his wife) and their home in San Bernadina, California to Florida. The children were unearthed by their mother when she typed her daughter’s name in Facebook and subsequently “friended” her. …
Read moreCHILDREN AND CUSTODY: Mom finds long lost kids on FACEBOOK – after 15 year abduction
I found this website and I uploaded two of the points from an article post: You are not a Princess – 25 points for women and men to consider. What do you think about what the author had to say in this post? Read below. I am curious and troubled by a lot of the …
Read moreDivorce, kids, and equitable distribution: What do you think about this?
A client recently asked if he could get the court to force his wife to put part of the child support into a college fund for the kids. My response was that the court could probably be convinced to do just about anything by a persuasive lawyer. But chances are, I said, I did not …
DOHA: According to Gulf News, The Doha International Institute for Family Studies and Development, an academic institute in Qatar that “conducts research on the legal, sociological, and scientific bases of the family as the natural and fundamental group unit of society,” will be having a series of conferences in May that will highlight the role …
Disturbing stats coming out of UK. It seems there is a trend that teenagers are increasingly attacking their parents physically and parents are increasingly admitting being “afraid” of their own kids – especially the daughters. Says an article in today’s UK Guardian: Children as young as13 are behaving with extreme physical and verbal violence towards …
Read moreBRITAIN: Divorce causes 20% of bullying kids to attack their parents