Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

There are more than 500,000 children every year in divorced and separated families who have parents polarized by the issue of child custody.

Because of this conflict, many children are psychologically divided by behaviors that have three stages of adjustment: Visitation Resistance, Visitation Pleasure, and Visitation Confliction.

Joseph Goldberg is a parental alienation expert, family law consultant, and founder of the Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome. Alienated first as a child and then as a targeted parent in his divorce case, Goldberg is dedicated to his mission of educating mental health professionals, parents, and the public on the perils of parental alienation.

His latest article is titled "Parental Alienation and Children Exhibiting Visitation Refusal Behavior." Click here to download the full PDF of the article.

By Nathan Arnold

Special to DadsDivorce.com

Biological fathers rights in Michigan earned a victory with a new law allowing biological dads to establish paternity of a child that was born to a married woman.

Previously, Michigan paternity laws did not give parental rights to biological fathers if the mother of the child was married to another man at the time of the child’s birth.

The husband of the child’s mother was automatically presumed to be the father.

Question:

I am required to reimburse a certain percentage of daycare expenses incurred by my ex-wife. Our divorce decree clearly states my ex-wife should provide me with receipts from the daycare provider evidencing the daycare expenditures.

However, she sends me receipts without the daycare's name or even a signature on them so I don't even know if they're legitimate. Some weeks she will just send me an email stating how much I owe without any copy of a receipt.

Am I expected to pay these expenses if they are not being properly filed per our divorce judgment?

By Jamie Kinkaid

Cordell & Cordell Divorce Lawyer

As discussed in a previous article, "Summer Parenting Time: Common Problems and Solutions," there are unique issues for divorced dads that crop up when children are out of school for the summer.

Summer vacations during the summer parenting time can be a thorny issue if not properly addressed in your divorce decree.

Question:

I want to divorce my wife, but I recently co-signed with my parents to buy a house with my name on the deed.

Would my wife have a claim to this home through a marital property division?