Child Custody

Custody is never truly final -- and you need to keep that in mind if you have primary physical custody of your children and want to keep it.That's the lesson to be learned from the case of "DaddyOFive," a father and YouTube blogger who thought he and his current wife...

Attorneys in all areas of the law are starting to sound like broken records when it comes to advising their clients to stay away from social media when they're in the middle of a lawsuit -- but that's only because clients continue to make social media mistakes that...

Whether or not you get physical custody of your child shouldn't have to depend on something like whether you can afford a better lawyer than your spouse. In some states, that's exactly what happens. Custody battles become a war of attrition, with one side laying legal...

What happens if your child's other parent responds to your request for a divorce by fleeing the country with your child in tow? If you're lucky, the country your child has been taken to is a member of the Hague Convention. The Hague Convention is an agreement formed...

Parenting by itself can be a difficult job, but co-parenting with a difficult ex comes with its own set of maladies. Indeed, you may have differences about entertainment, rule enforcement and discipline, but when it comes to medical treatment (and payment for...

California's family courts take parenting time very seriously. When one parent drastically interferes with the other's parenting time, both the civil and criminal consequences can be severe. Sometimes the interference is open and direct, The parent with physical...

If you stepped into the role of caretaker for a child that's a dependent of the court, you may have developed a bond with that child that transcends biological relationships. The courts will sometimes allow someone in this situation to be named a de facto parent. In...

In the second case based on the same event, the federal appellate court has affirmed that the county is not immune from liability after two social workers committed perjury, causing a California woman to lose custody of her two young daughters for six and a half...

Right now, a child in California has to be at least 14 years old before he or she can express an opinion in court about which parent should have primary custody. Lawmakers are saying that is far too long to have to wait, and a new bill filed by State Senator Connie...

In a case that seems to be the first of its kind, two frozen embryos have been named the plaintiff's in a custody suit against the actress whose eggs were used in their creation. The former fiance of the actress, whose sperm was also used in their creation, had...