Child Custody: Is It Abandonment If I Have To Move For Work?

Question: I am requesting information regarding abandonment due to my relocation for work purposes. I accepted a work contract for an out-of-state job in order to provide for my family that has now turned into a full-time position. Unfortunately, my wife is not willing to relocate the family to where …

Ex Moves To More Expensive Area And I Have To Pay Her Increased Expenses

Question: I am already divorced and have a parenting plan in place. I am paying half of the childcare expenses for my two children. My ex wife has chosen to move to a more affluent area and childcare is a lot more expensive there. She has formally requested I pay …

Which State Has Jurisdiction To Modify Child Support If Both Parties Have Moved?

Question: I currently pay child support according to a marital separation agreement with my ex-wife. We both have moved out of the state where the order was issues, and now she wants to increase my child support payments by filing for a modification in her new state, which apparently requires …

Can My Ex Open A New Child Support Case In Another State?

Question: My child support payments ended several months ago when my 18-year-old child was considered emancipated by the state the original order was issued in. However, my ex-wife and child now live in another state where the child support age of emancipation is 21, and she is threatening to take …

Guardian Ad Litem Child Custody Evaluation From Another State

Question: My wife has moved to another state with our infant daughter during our divorce proceeding and is now requesting a guardian ad litem for our custody case. We have a relocation hearing pending that will be decided after the child custody report. How can the guardian ad litem investigate …

Standard Visitation Guidelines For Out-Of-State Parents

Question: I had to relocate out of state following my divorce because of work. The judge in the child custody case would not allow me to modify the visitation schedule because the children were young and he thought I abandoned them. The airfare costs to travel and see them every …

How Can I Move Our Divorce And Custody Case?

Question: My ex-wife is moving to another state with our children, and we would like to move jurisdiction of our divorce and child custody case to that state since neither of us live in the state where we were divorced. She is the custodial parent though we technically have joint …

Closing Case In One State, Opening In Another State

Question: If a child support order that was established in the state we were divorced in was later vacated and the custodial parent now lives in another state, can the custodial parent file for child support in a new state of residence? Since vacating the original child support order makes …

How To File For Temporary Child Custody

Question: My ex-wife moved our children out of the county we both resided in and placed them in new school districts. The move has also prevented me from exercising my full allotment of parenting time, and I would like to file for temporary child custody. Is there a way I …

Child Custody Modification If One Parent Moves Overseas

Question: The amount of parenting time I have with my child has drastically decreased since I had to move to another country for my job and now my ex-wife is seeking a child custody modification. If my ex-wife is successful in modifying the custody order to reflect our new circumstances …