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Ordinarily, a trial court will enter "temporary orders" for custody, visitation, and child support, while the divorce is pending.
Custody in Michigan must be established either through divorce, family support case or paternity case. Once established you can file a petition to change the order or have it inforced.
The parents have assumed joint custody.
You divorce and get custody over your kids or just get full custody!
She will have to abide by the divorce decree and custody orders of the state in which the divorce was granted. She can move back, but the ex-husband (and the children's father) may dispute being separated from his children and take you to court to prevent it.
Abandonment is not grounds for divorce in Michigan. Michigan is a "no-fault" divorce state.
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He/she can't. Only the parents can change custody.
You have the visitation rights that were established in the divorce, and you have no custody rights.
Custody rulings have nothing to do with who files for the divorce first.
Michigan is a no-fault state. This means that you do not need to plead any grounds for divorce beyond the statutory words (i.e. 'There have been a breakdown...'). This also means that since you do not need to contest grounds for divorce there is never a trial held for the matter of the divorce itself. Simply, the divorce will happen, no matter what, even if the other party never responds to it. What the other party can contest, however, is the division of property and debts as well as custody of the children. In a divorce, all of the delay comes from dividing property and the children, and when there is a trial it is entirely about what property is marital property and marital debts and how those are divided. However, while Michigan is a no-fault state the relative fault of the parties in causing the divorce (e.g. adultery, abuse, etc.) can be a factor in divising property and can effect custody. But while this might change the relative allocation it will in no way stop the divorce from happening.
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