This depends on what you are asking as there are many different situations.
For example, if the child is old enough for a Judge to take their wants into consideration, and the place where the child wants to 'go back' to is a safe environment, then it can be possible.
The person with full custody has the right to have the child live with them permanently and has the right to make all decisions regarding the child without interference.
That does not mean you have full custody. Even though the father is not around you should still go for full custody. Theres always that chance the father could back around and that child is not with you he has just as much right to that child as you do.
Superficially yes. But if someone is still paying child support then they also have custody by rights. Though you would have full and the person paying it would have some time with the child typically
The baby's grandparents could get custody.
The father will have to take the mother of the child back to court if the divorce is already finalized. Custody should have been determined during the divorce so if 1 party wants to change that, they will have to take the other person back to court again.
No, probably not until that person's 18.
It regards the issue of getting an emergency custody order for a child in need of care.
No.
most likely he will lose his rights til the judge decides what is best for the child.
By determining that the right of a parent to primary custody of the child supersedes the best interest of the child.
A child does not need to be abandoned by their mother for a father to be awarded full custody. If the father can demonstrate before a judge that the mother is unfit to parent, the judge can award him full custody of the child.
Custody is a separate issue from money. Child support payments are about money. Custody is about who raises a child, who is in charge of that child and with whom does that child live.