How to Build a Co-Parenting Plan
Co-parenting — sharing your child with an ex — is a difficult endeavor. It requires more trust than you are likely to have in your ex. But it\’s a vital part of any divorce that involves children, because no matter what you might think of your ex, to your children they will always be \”my […]
Watching Your Kids Leave With Your Ex
It\’s hard, after a divorce, to get used to being a single parent with custody. Without your ex to depend on for simple things like watching the kid while you run to the store (or vice versa), it can seem like everyday tasks take twice as long and the number of tasks there are to […]
Active Fatherhood Deemed More Important Than Biological Contribution In Michigan
In a precedent-setting decision, a man from Macomb Township was ruled the father of a boy that he had raised since birth, even after it was discovered that the child was not biologically his offspring. A Macomb County judge ruled that the 40-year-old man would continue to have joint custody of the 5-year-old boy whom […]
International Custody Disputes Are Time-Sensitive
The Supreme Court ruled recently on the case of an international custody dispute, and ruled that the law in this case doesn\’t have the flexibility to take exigent circumstances into account. According to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, a treaty signed by many first-world countries, says that if a […]