Category Archives: Child Custody

When parents are involved in a contentious divorce or bitter child custody dispute, they may say things in the heat of the moment that are motivated by anger and/or sadness. Unfortunately, they may also engage in activity that is not only motivated b...

Should religion be considered? This is currently the question raised by a mother seeking custody of her children in the Texas court system. She and her husband are in the middle of a divorce proceeding after a 20-year marriage. The couple has thre...

Without a doubt, one of the most discussed -- and hotly debated -- political issues here in the United States is immigration. In fact, it has taken center stage in many local and state elections, and promises to emerge as a prominent topic in the not...

What happens when a child's grandparents want to visit the child, but the child's parents want the grandparents to stay away? This is currently an unclear area of the law concerning child custody and visitation. A recent case in Alabama illustrate...

An Oklahoma child custody case has grabbed headlines because of its possible link to a rare dwarfism disease. According to a feature in the Tulsa World newspaper, a state court in Oklahoma is currently considering whether to remove an 11-year-old ...

A unique child custody case out of New Jersey involved settling an ongoing dispute between two divorced parents over whose last name should be given to the couple's children. The mother was seeking to change the last name of the children to her maide...

When it comes to child custody agreements, most people would probably think that they were generally straightforward and could even be somewhat open-ended when it came to such matters as health, education or religion -- perhaps indicating that the pa...

In a rather shocking development, it appears that more and more men are doubting that the children their significant others are carrying are actually theirs. And because of this, a growing number of them are requesting that the women claiming to be p...

Many divorced parents are breathing sighs of relief now that Christmas is finally over. However, these sighs of relief may have nothing to do with the end of the busy holiday shopping season or hectic holiday travel schedule, but rather with the end ...

Childhood obesity is a growing problem in the United States, often termed an "epidemic." In fact, about 17 percent of America's children and teens are now obese, a figure that has tripled since 1980. Now, childhood obesity has become more than a just...