Divorced dads take a lot of abuse in society. Often it is assumed that if a father does not have custody of his child, it is because he is disinterested. The term deadbeat dad is often thrown out broadly to describe a father who does not see his child or financially...
Finding Solutions To Complex Issues
Year: 2016
Overview of possible compensation for paternity fraud
Paternity fraud occurs when a father unknowingly provides support and accepts parental responsibility for a child to whom he is not biologically related. This may surprise you in the age of DNA and science, however, DNA tests are rarely undertaken outside of the...
Study explores the reasons why fathers fail to pay child support
State governments spend millions of dollars a year in enforcement programs to compel parents to pay child support. Governments spend all of this money without fully understanding the problem. Surprisingly, very little research has been done to examine the...
Toddler’s death is raising questions about fathers’ rights
For years, matters of custody leaned in the favor of mothers because the general consensus was that they were better at taking care of children than men. However, countless studies and anecdotal evidence have shown irrefutably that fathers are just as important to a...
How does an unmarried father gain parental rights? Part 2
Paternity is the establishment of formal legal rights between a father and his child. It gives reciprocal rights to the child and the father (and the mother). Therefore, establishing paternity carries serious financial and legal consequences. As discussed in a...
How does an unmarried father gain parental rights? Part 1
Couples are having children outside of marriage more and more often. These changing demographics place new strains on the judicial system as it tries to cope with this phenomenon. Traditionally, most parental rights are established based upon marriage. If a child was...
Can a parent go to another state for a new custody ruling?
Generally speaking, no the other parent cannot do that. If the other parent is successful that would only be because the residential situation regarding your child is unusually complex. In most situations, the states are bound the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction...
Does a job justify a child support modification?
It can, but not just because you changed jobs. A new job alone is insufficient to support the modification of a support order. Support orders are only modified based upon a handful of situations. The new job must fit within one of those situations to justify granting...
The ways to establish an unmarried father’s rights to visitation
The court will not award custody and visitation rights to just any adult. That person must be a family member or parent and it is up to you to prove that you are one of those. For fathers, this is called establishing paternity. If you are married or were married...
Why fighting for your kids is in their best interests
Parents trying to hash out child custody arrangements in Minnesota are told that the final arrangement must be in the best interests of the children. What does this mean? Traditionally, this meant that children would be placed with the mother and the father would be...