By Sara Pitcher Noblesville, Indiana Divorce Lawyer Traveling with your children can seem like a great way to relax and enjoy quality time together. However, if you and the children’s mother are no longer together, traveling out of the state with the minor children may require a few additional steps. …
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By Sara Pitcher Noblesville, Indiana Divorce Lawyer A Guardian Ad Litem (GAL) is appointed in many divorce and child custody cases. A GAL will not enter a case until ordered by a judge. However, either party in a family law case may request that the judge appoint a GAL in …
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Question: I am concerned for my son’s mental and physical well-being and want to know how to address medical issues if I am not the custodial parent. He recently had surgery and since then he has been desperate for me, crying every time I leave and all week while he’s …
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Ken Solin is the author of “Act Like A Man” a book featuring guys who help each other identify, examine, and move beyond their dysfunctional behavior as partners, fathers, and friends. Solin has worked for 20 years with men to move them beyond the issues, including divorce, that limit their …
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Japan is known as a haven for international child abduction as the country has never returned a single abducted child. Paul Toland, who is a commander in the U.S. Navy and has testified before Congress on this issue, is the only living parent of Erika Toland who was abducted to …
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By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com Today’s divorced dads who have been awarded physical custody of their children have a heavy burden. They are pioneering a societal movement with little-to-no role modeling to fall back on. Dads are similar to the suffragettes of the 1930s who campaigned for equality with …
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By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com There are more than three times as many single-mom households (12.7 million) as there are single-dad households (4 million), according to the U.S. Census. Unfortunately, divorced dads raising children as a single-parent household have a difficult row to hoe. This is because the phenomenon …
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By Daniel Exner Milwaukee Divorce Lawyer Dads seeking divorce advice frequently ask divorce lawyers about how to keep their ex-wives or soon-to-be-exes from saying negative things to the children about their father. Many divorced parents will talk about the divorce case with their children, use the kids as messengers, or, …
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In 2010, the U.S. Department of Justice reported an average of 200,000 cases of parental kidnapping each year. Maureen Dabbagh is a Virginia Supreme Court Family Mediator specializing in cross-border child custody disputes, who has been providing expert testimony on the issue of parental kidnapping since 1997. Her own three-year-old …
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By Nathan A. Hacker Indianapolis Divorce Lawyer My previous divorce article discussed how to get a teacher on your side to testify favorably for you in a divorce and child custody case. But there are ways to lose the support of a teacher during your interactions. Losing such a crucial …
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