By Matt Allen Editor, DadsDivorce.com There are now more children who live with unwed, cohabiting parents than with divorced parents and that affects fathers rights to child custody, according to a recent report. The National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values reports there are 12 times as many …
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Question: I would like to know my chances for success with an upcoming child custody modification proceeding. In our divorce decree, I am supposed to have parenting time every other weekend and one day a week for 8 hours. But for the past 5 years I have had my daughter …
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Question: Can child custody agreements be modified if the parenting plan in place is having an adverse affect on the child? My son is a wonderful father to his daughter, who is a toddler. The visitation schedule calls for each parent to have her every other week. The problem is …
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Question: I am curious about child support laws when I had my children for summer vacation. Per our child custody agreements, my kids stay with me over summer breaks. Yet I was still paying child support to my ex-wife during the months the kids lived with me. During an extended …
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By Matt Allen Editor, DadsDivorce.com Dr. Richard Warshak is widely known as one of the world’s leading parental alienation experts. So when he says change is coming to an adversarial family law system that promotes child custody disputes, people listen. In a column appearing on HuffingtonPost.com, Warshak wrote the American …
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Question: My husband is having difficulties enforcing his visitation rights. His ex-wife told him the children do not want to come visit him for his parenting time anymore because they do not like me and my children. She told him he can’t legally force them to come visit. Is that …
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Question: Do you have any divorce advice for men on what would enable me to increase the amount of parenting time with my kids? Our current child custody agreements calls for us to split parenting time 50-50. However, I’m moving even closer to where my children live and I would …
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Question: Per our child custody agreements, my wife and I split parenting time 50-50. The court has ordered me to pay a set amount each month of variable expenses, which is different from the child support order. I find the current fixed amount is too high, so I would like …
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Question: We are attempting to work through child custody agreements in mediation, but my wife will not give me more than every other weekend and some summer vacation time. I want to have more parenting time with my daughter, but I’m not sure what to do if my wife won’t …
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Question: My ex-wife and kids have moved to another state and we do not have a parenting plan in place to allow for my parenting time. Without a court-ordered plan in place granting me visitation rights, my ex-wife is refusing to let me visit the kids and sometimes won’t even …
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