How To Get Court Ordered Parenting Time If Still Married

Question: My wife has moved out with our children and is denying me access to them saying she doesn’t have to give me parenting time if there is not a court order. I do not wish to cause any problems that could potentially damage my child custody case. I do, …

Social Scientists Agree With The Shared Parenting Trend

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com In an academic paper, social scientists at Arizona State University discussed and made conclusions on two universally conflicted issues facing family law courts and policy makers today on the issue of shared parenting: Is the quantity or the quality of parenting time more important …

Shared Parenting Laws Trends Across The Country

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com Family law is moving in the direction of collaboration and shared parenting, even if the reform is not as rapid as many scorned divorced dads would like. This is a glacial but positive movement in the courtroom, and many states have shared parenting legislation, …

Why Kids Need Their Dad

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com “Fatherhood turns out to be a complex and unique phenomenon with huge consequences for the emotional and intellectual growth of children.” There is a large body of evidence pointing to the importance of a father in a child’s life. Children with two married parents …

How To Interpret Parenting Plan Orders

Question: As the non-custodial parent and per our parenting plan, I am to have four weeks of additional parenting time each year with my child until he reaches age 5. However, my ex-wife is claiming she has those additional weeks as well because “it’s implied.” Now she has set up …

Shared Parenting Facts

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com When divorced parents engage in shared parenting, they are building in a buffer against violence, molestation, suicide and health problems in their children. Statistically, children with divorced parents who are both actively participating in the parenting process are happier, more secure, and more adjusted …

5 Shared Parenting Myths

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com Shared parenting is emerging as the better prototype for co-parenting children after divorce with courts more frequently steering away from the every-other-weekend “visitation” schedule. While this shared-parenting arrangement is inconvenient at times for divorced couples, it allows a child to bond with both parents. …

Planning Summer Vacations: Who Gets To Pick The Dates?

By Jamie Kinkaid Cordell & Cordell Divorce Lawyer As discussed in a previous article, “Summer Parenting Time: Common Problems and Solutions,” there are unique issues for divorced dads that crop up when children are out of school for the summer. Summer vacations during the summer parenting time can be a …

Summer Parenting Time: Common Problems and Solutions

By Jamie Kinkaid Cordell & Cordell Divorce Lawyer More often than not, divorcing parties tend to forget regular and holiday visitation is completely separate from summer parenting time. Summer itself needs to be addressed individually to help give guidelines on how the visitation will occur and what the expectations are …

Contempt Over A Right Of First Refusal Clause Violation?

Question: My divorce decree includes a right of first refusal clause when one parent cannot exercise parenting time. One night during my scheduled parenting time when I had to work overnight I left the children at home with my girlfriend. My ex-wife found out and contacted her divorce lawyer saying …