Relocation cases are some of the most difficult in the New Jersey family court, which has developed a very complex body of law on the issue with different legal standards of review.
Parenting and Stepfamily Issues
How Does The Court Decide Who Gets Primary Parenting Rights?
How does the Court decide who gets primary parenting rights if both parents want it? What factors do the courts consider in granting custody?
Should The Custodial Parent Keep The House In A Divorce?
Roderick C. Moe, a Certified Public Accountant in Lake Worth, answers: This is a great question, and one that’s often overlooked. The answer is sometimes yes and sometimes no. It’s important to pinpoint exactly what it will cost to maintain the home, factoring in taxes and inflation. The next step is to analyze if there […]
How can parents help their children though the process of divorce?
To help your children through the divorce process, you should have open lines of communication with them and understand how they’re responding to change.
Podcast: Attorney David Echols on Issues Related to Children & Divorce
David Echols, an Oklahoma Family Attorney, discusses how Oklahoma courts will treat factors such as child custody, visitation, issues of paternity and more.
Will their father or step-father be included on the FAFSA?
I’m divorced with custody of a 6th and 12th grader and planning to re-marry. Will their father or step-father be included on the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)?
If a child doesn’t want to go with the other parent, what can people do in that situation to make things work better?
“If a child doesn’t want to go with the other parent, what can people do in that situation to make things work better?” The problem is that to make no effort to get the child to go with the other parent could be a mistake, because there is now a factor under the Code where […]
What does a parent have to do if they want to relocate to another state?
What does a parent have to do if they want to relocate to another state? This new statute of custody has a very stringent relocation provision that the parent who wants to relocate to another state must know, in writing, give advance notice to the parent who’s not relocating and tell them, “I plan to […]
Should the parent who was the primary caretaker become the primary custodial parent?
That is a factor that we used to have in our law where the court considered who the primary custodial parent was. The new statute does not consider that anymore, unless you look at the last factor, which says any other relevant factor. There was a recent case in Pennsylvania that basically said this is […]
What are grandparents’ rights to visitation with the children in Pennsylvania?
There’s some threshold questions if there’s a family that’s intact. But if a family is going through a divorce, grandparents can seek what we call partial physical custody or visitation with their grandchildren. And the court makes the determination, once again, if it’s in the best interest of the child or children to see the […]
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