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Visitation is a fundamental aspect of shared custody. The courts and experts universally agree that it is in the best interests of the child for both parents to be involved in the child's life. Therefore, the courts require the parents to share custody, or if there is...
Child custody, support, and visitation rights are decided absent any consideration for the parents. The court's only overriding concern is what is in the best interests of the child. But the closer these disputes are to the birth of the child, the harder they are to...
For decades, the courts operated under two basic premises. The first premise assumed that children benefit from a stable home more than they do with sharing equal time between parents. Second, that stable home should be the mothers because children need their mother...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
When it comes to parenting there are rights and there are obligations. Not everyone agrees on what the responsibilities may be but the law is rather definitive about such matters and men often get the short end of the stick.Establishing paternity can be one of those...