In Living Color star David Alan Grier filed court papers in Los Angeles last week seeking shared custody of his one-year-old daughter. Grier also requested that the court deny his estranged wife’s request for spousal support.
Governor Dave Heineman announced today that a special session of Nebraska's legislature will be held next month to revise the state's controversial safe-haven law.
A man from Central Florida is facing up to five years in prison for failing to pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in child support.
Child custody refers to a legal decision that determines which parent will have physical and/or legal control over a child in the event of a separation or divorce.
DNA paternity testing is an effective and accurate way to establish parentage. Women may use a paternity test to prove a man is the biological father in order to collect child support payments.
Since fathers often pay child support, it may be important to establish paternity. Find out which types of father figures may be required to pay child support.
In cases where a parent has a history of violence or substance dependency, a court might order supervised visitation, which requires a court- and custodial parent-approved adult to be present during all of the non-custodial parent’s visits with the children.
Visitation rights entitle noncustodial parents (parents who do not have custody) to spend time with their children. Typically, the parents jointly determine visitation schedules, although in cases where hostility exists between parents, a court may intervene.
The amount of child support paid is usually based on the incomes of both parents and how much time the children spend with each parent.
Child support laws give guidelines for payments and rules for enforcement. A child support calculator can estimate the amount to be awarded.
Parents are required by law to pay child support following a divorce. The amount and the person who pays child support can vary.
Child custody, the legal term for “who gets the children,” is granted to one parent or both parents following a divorce or separation. In most cases, parents are able to work out their own custody arrangement; in other cases, the court decides for them.
Divorce can be especially hard on children. As a result, it is important to resolve child custody issues as soon as possible. Determining what types of custody and/or visitation rights are appropriate can be difficult, and consulting a family law attorney can aid compliance with child custody laws.
When a custody case crosses state lines, more problems and conflicts may arise. The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act has sought to protect children by limiting the infighting that often accompanies interstate child custody cases.
A number of situations can interfere with child custody cases, including a biased judge, violations of visitation rights, and one parent undermining a child's relationship with another parent.
LawyerShop provides answers to commonly asked questions about child custody, child support, visitation rights, and other areas of child custody law.
Child custody refers to the custody of children in the event of a divorce. Custody battles can be hard on the children, so it is important that custody be resolved as quickly as possible.
Convicted murderer Vincent Brothers must pay child support for his remaining daughter while he is in prison, according to an order issued by the Court of Appeals in Fresno last week.
The Washington State Supreme Court heard arguments from attorneys for an Olympia woman that the state has a duty to provide government-subsidized legal counsel to represent her in her divorce case.
Ohio authorities, in an effort to crack down on parents who owe child support, rounded up 82 people last week. The parents, one owing more than $46,000 and three others owing more than $40,000, collectively owe nearly $1.5 million in back child support to 136 children. The patents have all have avoided court dates.
Only three days after Delaware launched its new Most Wanted Child Support Evaders poster campaign, Devin L. Wright Sr., one of the state’s top ten offenders, was arrested.
Former St. Louis University basketball star Anthony Bonner avoided facing jail time through a deal in which the former NBA forward and new American Basketball Association coach will pay more than $150,000 in back child support.
According to HB221, men who learn they are not the biological father of the children for whom they pay support would be able to petition a judge to relieve them of future child support obligations.
Kansas governor Kathleen Sebelius is expected to sign a bill that says those owing more than $500 in child support would have their licenses restricted until the debt is paid.
Hoping to get enough signatures to put their initiative on the November general election ballot, the North Dakota Shared Parenting Initiative (NDSPI) suggests that joint physical custody, or shared parenting, is a better option for the children of broken homes.
Randy Johnson, who earns $16 million annually in major league baseball, filed a motion in Washington's Island County Superior Court for return of 95 months' worth of day care payments for his illegitimate daughter.
Over the course of 15 years, Doug Richardson of Lansing, Mich., shelled out tens of thousands of dollars in child support for a boy who, DNA test prove, was fathered by another man.
Jason Thomas, who signed a $300,000-a-year contract with the Bills in January, opted to pay tens of thousands of dollars in missed child support, rather than go to jail.
In an online dating sting, detectives nabbed a Kentucky man wanted for unpaid child support.
The New York-based National Center for Men announced that it will file a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Detroit on behalf of a man who wants the legal right to opt out of financially supporting an unplanned child.
NFL pro bowl veteran Rickey Jackson holds the No. 2 spot on Louisiana's Department of Social Services' "Most Wanted" list for failure to make court-ordered child support payments.
Parents who pay child support would get financial credit for time spent with their children, as put forth in a bill that recently passed the New Hampshire House.
Fear of financial repercussions might be incentive for men to stay in relationships that they might otherwise abandon.
The federal child-support enforcement program, once hailed as a success story for government social services, took a hard hit from budget changes that become effective in October 2007.
A new no-fault divorce proposal in New York makes it possible for a spouse to get a quick, inexpensive divorce without having to prove serious misconduct by the other partner.
Two federal appeals courts on opposite sides of the country recently ruled the 2003 Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act unconstitutional, saying it lacks an exception for instances where the mother's health is at risk.
The 33rd anniversary of the Roe v Wade decision landed at a time when the judgment is once again being challenged. Judge Samuel Alito may be replacing retiring Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, tipping the Supreme Court to a substantial conservative voice.
Standards that provide children with quality foster care and health services have been neglected by all 50 states, requiring another round of reviews by the Department of Health and Human Services.
After running an newspaper add that named parents who are wanted for delinquent child support payments, the Jefferson County, Kentucky attorney's office has located hundred of missing parents and recovered thousands of dollars in late child support.
A New York teenager who recently turned 18 years old is suing her parents for child support even though she no longer resides in her parents' home.
A recent ruling by the Connecticut Supreme Court amended a divorce decree to include assets that one spouse acquired after the decree had been issued. Legal experts fear this may prolong divorce litigation by indefinitely extending the period for post-judgment challenges.
For the first time in more than 20 years, Minnesota lawmakers voted to amend the state's child support system. Both parents' income will now be taken into consideration when determining appropriate child support payments.
With help from the Fathers Collaborative, a Pittsburgh father and his estranged wife now share custody of the son he has rarely seen over the past year.
After his girlfriend conceived two children through in-vitro fertilization, a married man tried to avoid paying child support by claiming he was not the legal father. The Washington Supreme Court unanimously ruled the man must pay.
A Delaware appeals court ruled that alimony and child support can be based on potential earning capacity instead of current wages only when it has been definatively proven the person lost his or her job because of substance abuse.
A mother has petitioned the Utah Supreme Court to revoke the visitation rights of her former lesbian lover. The decision could have far reaching consequences for all adults caring for a child who is not legally theirs.
Family courts in four states have ruled that the court has no authorization to compel reluctant parents to exercise their visitation rights.
After serving 15 months in Iraq, a National Guardsman returned home from his deployment to find he no longer had shared custody of his 10-year-old son.
The California Supreme Court ruled that gay and lesbian couples who bear and raise a child together have the same parental rights and responsibilities as heterosexual parents.
The family court system in Jefferson County, Kentucky is being hailed as efficient and forward-thinking. Its unique organization enables judges to tackle a wide variety of family issues with inventive solutions.
The Roman Catholic Church recently agreed to increase the child support paid to the 12 year old son of a Catholic priest. The Catholic Church said it would provide counseling for the boy as well.
Child support collections in Mississippi have increased by more than $11 million this fiscal year thanks to innovative methods for forcing delinquent parents to pay.
A mother who gave birth to twins while living with her former lesbian partner is suing her former partner for child support.
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