Can My Teenage Son Move Out of State to Live with Me? When Can He Decide?

Question: I moved out of state last year, and my fifteen-year-old son now wants to live with me. My ex is opposed to this. My son says my ex verbally abuses him. If he refuses to return back home to her after our visitation, do I have to force him …

Requesting Custody During A Visitation Hearing

Question: Can I request custody during a visitation hearing?

Options If Denied Parenting Time Over Owed Child Support

By Julie Garrison Special to DadsDivorce.com If you are late on your child support payments – whether a one-time event or chronic lateness – your ex-wife cannot deny you visitation or parenting time with your children. This is the law in every state in the U.S.

Holiday Parenting Time Planning

By Daren Neel Cordell & Cordell Divorce Attorney In this holiday season, many parents realize that based on their regular parenting schedule they do not have any parenting time on either Thanksgiving or Christmas. In a scramble to have parenting time with their children on these important holidays, many parents …

What Visitation Rights Do Grandparents Have?

By Tamara Hoffstatter Men’s Divorce Attorney Children of divorce have enough disappointment just facing the fact that their mom and dad don’t love each other anymore. It can be devastating coupled with the loss of not seeing their grandparents. So what visitation rights do grandparents have after divorce?

Who Pays Child Support If We Share Custody?

By Tamara Hoffstatter Men’s Divorce Attorney Child support is meant to ensure that each parent is taking a role in providing for the financial needs of their children. If one parent has sole physical custody and the other has visitation, the parent with the visitation will almost always end up …

My Ex Never Offers Me Right of First Refusal

Question: My custody schedule has a right of first refusal clause that my ex-wife exercises almost every time I have to work, though she never lets me use the clause when she is busy. Per our parenting time schedule, I have the kids every other weekend and every Tuesday night …

What Rights Does Signing The Birth Certificate Give?

Question: I am currently being told that I am the father of a child who was born out of wedlock and am debating my options on whether to sign the birth certificate. What rights can I expect to receive by signing, or not signing, my alleged child’s birth certificate?

Illinois’ Right of First Refusal Unanimously Passes Both Houses

By Illinois Fathers In an historic move, Illinois unanimously passed the ‘Right of First Refusal’ on May 22 (HB2992, 98th Session). Illinois becomes the first state to explicitly call for consideration of the ‘Right of First Refusal’ in a parenting plan or court order. It will be added as Section …

‘Tacked On’ Vacation For Extended Parenting Time

Question: In my parenting plan it reads the father will have two uninterrupted weeks during the summer. One of the weeks we agreed to will start on a weekend they are with me. The problem is the next weekend is not my planned weekend with them but is Father’s Day …