Child Custody

The extent of the drug crisis in the United States has overwhelmed the criminal courts. It's also having an effect on family courts as well, as concerned parents go into court alleging that their ex-spouse has developed a drug addiction and is endangering the custody...

California police followed a neighborhood tip and discovered a unique drug distribution method -- and a child in serious danger. The father of a 9-year-old child and a woman living in the house with him were operating their drug sales via a literal high-tech...

Lying in family court can cost you both custody and jail time.A woman from California is learning that lesson the hard way after she perjured herself in family court. She won't know her actual sentence until January 2018, but she faces a potential of four years in...

We live in an increasingly mobile society -- and that doesn't change just because a couple gets divorced.One member of the former couple may need to follow a career to another state. Perhaps the other member of the couple wants to return to his or her home state in...

In a previous article, we've addressed how important it is for divorced parents to be on the same page when it comes to things like gift giving and Santa Claus.However, nothing is going to create a more lasting -- and wretched -- memory of the holidays for your kids...

The concept of shared parenting was apparently lost on an Arizona woman and her parents -- leaving an infant's father to wonder for four months if his son was okay. Eventually, the mother and child were tracked down in Ramona, California. The father -- who has now...

Halloween is seldom addressed in child custody agreements because it isn't considered a national holiday. Unless you were thinking ahead when you made your final custody agreement, you may find that you don't have any specifics laid out for the festivities. If you're...

Bird-nest parenting, also called "nesting," has been the latest wave in co-parenting techniques for several years. Essentially, it's the thing all the cool divorced parents were trying: The kids stayed in the family home so that they experienced minimal disruption to...

One of the problems associated with shared parenting is that kids sometimes end up feeling like they don't really have a home of their own. Because they split their time between households and parents, it's easy for a kid to lose his or her sense of stability. Instead...