Generally, if married he has custody rights equal to the mother unless she has brought a petition for sole custody in his absence. If he is not married his custody rights must be established by a court order.
Your husband cannot get joint custody of your children from a prior marriage. Custody arrangements are made between parents of children. Your present husband can legally adopt your children with their father's consent. He would then have all the legal rights and obligations of a biological father. The children would become his legal heirs-at-law.
The father will find it easier to get the custody of the children , as the wife has left both the husband and as well as the children and is least interested in them.
Their biological father.
Boyfriend or husband (unless he is the biological father) has no legal right to the child at all. The mother can try to go for full custody though.
You will need a lawyer to try and get you full custody of your children and your lawyer will have to prove your husband is abusive to his children. If you presently have duel custody of your children and you take the children to the UK you could be charged with kidnapping.
Unless he was designated in the Will, but the father can also challenge.
No, unless a custody order is being violated, it is not kidnapping for the Father to move out of state with his own children.
The father of Britney's two children was ex-husband Kevin Federline, who currently has custody of the boys.
No, unless the baby's biological father relenquishes his parental rights, he would get custody of the child if the mother dies, not her husband. The biological father must sign his rights away to the mother's husband.
A father can get custody of the children if it can be demonstrated that that is in the best interest of the child. The father being the primary caregiver would help.
The father was awarded custody of his children.
You have the visitation rights that were established in the divorce, and you have no custody rights.