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.
The time frame should have been stated by the judge when custody was awarded.
Usually, abandonment can be claimed if the father has been out of the child's life for at least three years. This applies to mothers, also.
A child custody lawyer must know custody law well, understand the various types of custody and how court proceedings need to be handled. They must also understand how judges make custody decisions, and frame their case in such a way that their client gets the ideal situation.
I assume you also will be giving up any child support claim? Generally six months.
i think you have to do it before the child turns 18, but that is just what i think, im pretty sure though
Yes. Child support orders can be amended. However, some U.S. states have a time frame in which relates to how often the custodial parent or legal guardian can file a petition for an increase in support amounts.
That depends on where you live. In most states, you have the option of filing an emergency ex parte motion. State law mandates they must be heard in a specific time frame and if such a motion is granted, they are honored across state lines if your wife has already left. Your ex will be located and the child returned to your custody until you can continue to fight it out with her in court. If she has not yet left, the ex parte will remand the child to your custody before she has a chance to leave.
"Can" pr; imary custody be obtained under the scenario you've given? Yes. But, the real questions is "Why?" It sounds as if biological father is going to die ... And, I'm guessing that Dad has custody? Because he is in the hospital, he is clearly unable to care for his / your child(ren) without the assistance of another responsible adult. As the biological mother, you are the preferred choice for the custodial parent IF you have not given the court reason to believe that you are a neglectful and/or abusive parent. You should contact the attorney who handled the original custody hearing for you. S/he will file a Motion to Modify if it is warranted. Or, s/he will advise you of your options. It all depends on the particular facts of your situation. Rebuttle: Our current custody agreement is for myself to have our son for the week and his father to have him on the weekend. His father has stage 4 hodgkins lymphoma and is currently admitted for his bone marrow transplant. Our current order states that is one parent is PERSONALLY able to care for the child then the child will go to the other parent. My sons father will be in the hospital for an undermined amount of time and the total recovery time for his procedure is anywhere from 6months-1 1/2 years. The father and I have been butting heads on EVERYTHING even through his previous treatments and current treatment. I try to compromise as much as I can, but he is unwilling to budge on any decision if it isnt exactly what he wants. I do not feel that he is an unfit parent, nor do I feel he should have zero parental rights, but I do feel that given his current situation he is not thinking of what is best for our son. He refuses to agree on a school (even though our son is to start in september and his father will not be fully recovered by that time) and he also wants for his parents to take over his visitation days as if they were there own......when my sons father and I had agreed previously that if our son had the ability to be with either his mother or father first that that would happen before sending our son with other family members. I in no way have tried to keep my son from his father, nor would I ever do so. I am fully supportive of our son visiting his father and having as much time with his father as possible. However I do not feel his father is in the right mind frame to decide what is best for our son. He is only making decisions on what is best for his self and not what is best for our son.
In the state of California, it takes six months from the time the divorce is filed until it is finalized. This is the time frame for a non-contested divorce. The time can vary if there are issues such as child custody, child support or spousal support. If there are problems with settling on these matters, the time it takes until the divorce is final could be longer than six months.
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