Child Custody

Discovering that a child you’ve supported isn’t biologically yours can turn your world upside down. When this truth comes out, one of the hardest questions is whether financial support should continue, especially if ending it might harm the child’s well-being.  Across...

When married parents divorce or unmarried parents separate, they have to work out custody arrangements. Doing so can be quite challenging, as emotions tend to run high at the end of a relationship. Parents may find themselves disagreeing about the division of...

The holidays are meant to be a time of joy and building great memories, but they also come with stress, even under the best of circumstances. When you’re trying to navigate through child custody matters, the tension and stress can increase exponentially. It may still...

When parents are in a highly contentious divorce, their battles sometimes extend to how (or even if) they will share custody of their children. When parents can’t agree on a custody arrangement, a judge will decide it, based on the child’s best interests. If you’re...

A variety of personal challenges could affect an allocation of parental rights and responsibilities. When parents separate, they may agree to an imbalanced arrangement. One parent may acknowledge that their current challenges prevent them from fully sharing parental...

In some cases, parents who get divorced are able to come up with their own child custody arrangement. Maybe you and your spouse want to keep things simple, so you just agree to alternate weeks. The court still has to approve your decision, but you are the ones making...

When one co-parent "badmouths" the other in front of their kids, it can be profoundly stressful for everyone. This behavior, which can potentially rise to the level of parental alienation or negative co-parenting, can deeply affect children’s emotional health and...

Co-parenting can be challenging, but nothing is more distressing than suspecting your child is unsafe while with their other parent. In these situations, you want to protect your child without harming your legal standing in child custody matters. Taking the right...

You have questions about a child’s paternity. Perhaps you’re a mother and you need to prove the father’s paternity so that he will pay child support. Or perhaps you suspect you are the child’s father, and you want to have custody rights, so you have to show that you...

People preparing for divorce or a contested custody case are often very anxious. They may reach out to people they know who have shared custody and may look up stories from other people on the internet. What they find may leave them feeling particularly anxious. It is...