5 Ways To Fight Parental Alienation Syndrome

Tragically, children are often used as pawns or weapons during and after the divorce process. Often, this manifests itself in the form of parental alienation.

Coercing A Spouse To Follow The Custody Order

Question: I have court-ordered visitation with my children, but their mother is refusing to let them spend time with me. I have filed contempt charges and need help with what to do next. I am also wanting to seek custody of my children.

Could Meaningful Child Support Reform Be On The Horizon?

The modern child support system is critically flawed in numerous ways. Outdated gender biases that continue to stack the deck against fathers still pervade the system. Repeatedly, we see instances of well-intentioned dads kicked in the gut by the system despite their wishes to do whatever they can to help …

5 Ways The Child Support System Fails Families

Cordell & Cordell Principal Partner Joseph Cordell recently spoke with 700WLW-Cincinnati about many of the problems pervading the child support system and family courts. As Mr. Cordell noted, rather than providing support for children, the system often drives a wedge between families and creates unnecessary financial hardship for many well-intentioned …

Can A Court Prevent Visitation Without A Hearing?

Question: Is the court ever allowed to prevent visitation without a hearing or evidence that the children are in any harm?

Using A Guardian Ad Litem In A Custody Case

Question: My wife is trying to get full legal and physical custody of our kids and leave me only with supervised visitation. This is concerning because she is very abusive. I don’t have money for a lawyer so how should I go about fighting this?

What To Do If Your Ex Denies You Parenting Time

It is a sad reality that divorce often causes adults to act like children. The bitterness and animosity generated by a breakup often leads to a total loss of reason and rationality. Even more disappointing is that children are often caught in the middle of many of these arguments. Even …

DadsDivorce Live: Reuniting Homeless Fathers With Their Kids

It’s hard enough for divorced fathers to maintain meaningful bonds with their children under the best of circumstances. For dads who find themselves in a dire financial situation and without a place to live, the situation is drastically more grim. Those homeless fathers is who the Firehouse Shelter in Birmingham, …

Child Custody Orders Regarding Trips With The Kids

Question: My wife has sole legal and physical custody. During my weekends with the kids, can she stop me from taking them four hours away to visit their grandparents? What could she do if I did it anyway?

My Ex-Wife Keeps Violating The Morality Clause

Question: Our divorce decree has a morality clause that states that neither party is allowed to have a member of the opposite sex spend the night when our daughter is staying there, but my ex-wife keeps ignoring this and says there is nothing I can do. Is there anything I …