Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

By Dan Exner

Cordell & Cordell Divorce Lawyer

In general, the court must uphold a premarital agreement unless the agreement is "inequitable."

Where I practice, a prenuptial agreement is inequitable if it fails to satisfy any one of the following requirements:

Question:

My child lives with me and rarely sees his mother, though our divorce decree lists my ex-wife as having sole physical custody.

She ran off years ago and left the child with me. Though she is out of our child's life she refuses to officially give me full custody because she knows she will have to pay child support. She holds it over my head that she can come and take him away whenever she wants because she is legally the custodian.

How do I go about getting legal custody of my child, especially if both parties have moved out of state since the divorce?

Question:

My ex-wife wants to modify our parenting time schedule and change the weeknights I have my children.

There is no valid reason that I know of and there has not been any significant change in circumstances.

Can she make changes like this to the decree without my consent?

Question:

I was blindsided by my divorce and a judgment that essentially gave all our property both personal and shared to my ex-wife, including the home.

She now has all of my accounts, possessions, and our house. She even has the kids' personal property.

Do I have any rights post-judgment to reclaim at least some of the value of the home or modify the property ruling? Do my children have the right to seek return of their possessions?

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.