Child Custody

Your finally getting used to the parenting schedule and have a good idea of whose weekend is whose. Then summer arrives. The children are out of school, the regular routine is no more and your thinking about a vacation. If you're a divorced parent, you'll need to work...

As parents, we often worry about how our decisions will affect our children both over the long term and in the moment. This is often at the forefront of parents' minds who are going through a divorce. There is usually much debate and conflicting feelings leading up to...

Divorce is a difficult journey for the people who are divorcing. When there are children involved, the children can also feel the stress of the divorce. In that case, the parents should try to minimize the stress that is put on the children. One way to do this is to...

There are many things that go into planning a vacation. For parents who have children with an ex, one of the things that must occur is getting the vacation schedule ironed out in accordance with the child custody agreement. How you go about handling this process is...

Over the past decade or so, the rise of social media platforms has resulted in people across the country sharing every little piece of information about their lives with all of their friends and family. Whether or not you had a good day at work, whom you ran into at...

Parents are very protective of their children. That is one of the reasons why child custody cases are so difficult. Each parent has a desire to have things go his or her way because he or she feels that is the best option for the child. We know that you are probably...

Paternity fraud happens when a man is being held financially responsible for a child that is not biologically his. While this may seem like an impossibility in the Florida family court system, it likely happens more often than you think. One reason for this is the...

For some parents, the thought of having to go through a child custody battle is akin to having their heart ripped out. This is because many parents only want what is best for their child, which they usually believe means that everything in the child's life will be...

The question of which parent will be awarded custody after a divorce is never a simple one. Each case is individual and has its own unique set of circumstances that can influence whether sole or joint custody is awarded and who the custodial parent is. Understanding...

In most custody cases, there are two biological parents involved. However, there are also situations where adoptive parents, grandparents and even legal custodians are party to the case. One issue that can come up in some of the more complicated child custody cases is...