Divorce Dilemma: How To Deal With Your Kids’ ‘New Dad’

By “Dad X” Divorce is not the end of your life, although it may feel that way at times. Life does go on and for some, it starts over rather quickly and love is once again found and your children suddenly are faced with a stepfather (or stepmother as some …

Carnell Alexander Case Shows Need For Paternity Fraud Laws

The case of Carnell Alexander in Michigan has exposed how problematic it is that the state lacks paternity fraud laws. The absence of those laws could cause Alexander to be sent to jail for failing to pay child support for a child that everyone agrees isn’t his. WXYZ-TV first reported …

The History Of Child Custody Laws In America

In November, North Dakota voters rejected the “Parental Rights Initiative,” which would have awarded equal parenting time to each parent following divorce or separation unless one parent was deemed unfit. Although the initiative failed, it is emblematic of a movement over the past half century to involve both parents in …

3 Concerning Facts About The ‘Deadbeat Dad’ Myth

There are a number of stereotypes and misconceptions that drive the modern child-support system that have been covered extensively on DadsDivorce.com, but perhaps none are as confounding as the myth of the deadbeat dad. The concept of the deadbeat dad originates from a CBS special report by Bill Moyers that …

Fathers’ Rights Bills To Monitor

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com State legislatures begin during the first or second week of January and continue until sometime in the summer. Some of the 2013 fathers’ rights bills did not make it through the circuitous legislative process, depending upon the state and the bill. Many of these …

Can I Legally Force Ex’s Boyfriend Out Of The Marital Home?

Question: My wife’s boyfriend has moved into the marital home with our children while we are still married. Is there anything I can do legally to force this man to leave the house? Also, do I have a right to go into our home while he is living there?

Can my girlfriend move with our child if we aren’t married?

Question: I have a question about paternity laws. My girlfriend and I have a child together, but she is threatening to move and keeping me from seeing our baby. Since there is not a custody order and we are not married, can she move without my permission? If she can …

DadsDivorce Live: The Fight For Presumed Joint Custody

Molly Olson is the volunteer founder of the Center for Parental Responsibility and is currently tirelessly working toward the passage of a Joint Physical Custody bill in Minnesota. This bill would presume equally shared parenting after divorce and would be an obvious help to fathers who are too often marginalized …

How can I find out if I’m on the birth certificate?

Question: My ex-wife had a child by another man shortly after we divorced. My name was allegedly put on the child’s birth certificate by the state because we had not been divorced for at least 10 months when the child was born. The biological father has taken a paternity test …

DadsDivorce Live: The Disposable Male

Michael Gilbert is the author of “The Disposable Male” and a senior fellow at the Annenberg Center for the Digital Future at the University of Southern California, where he focuses on technology’s impact on gender and family issues. Gilbert is one of the featured speakers at The Foundation for Male …