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Providing men with essential divorce advice, fathers rights divorce information and child custody articles. Dads Divorce is a community for men facing divorce or fathers rights issues and run by Cordell and Cordell. Cordell & Cordell is a family law firm with a focus on men's divorce, child custody and fathers rights divorce.

Relocation And Access To Your Kids

Sep 15, 2009

DadsDivorce editor, Rick Ortiz, speaks with Stanley Charles Thorne about how one parent's decision to relocate with a child can wreak havoc in the relationship in the non-custodial parent/child relationship.

What does the Constitution have to say about relocation impacts parental rights? What are some of the loopholes that allow this to happen every day? How can your vigilance help avert the impact of this maneuver?

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Ask A Lawyer: How Can I See My Daughter?

Jul 23, 2009

Spencer Williams, Cordell & Cordell Question:

What rights do I have as a father? My daughter was born 3 months ago and now her mother (a one-night affair) will not let me see my child. What can I do?

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Time To Update Parenting Time Protocol

Jun 26, 2009

As part of the ‘national conversation’ on fatherhood that President Obama would like to have, we need to talk about the presumptions of Illinois divorce courts that influence our perceptions of the value of father involvement.

The de facto minimum parenting schedule used by Illinois courts remains, as it has been for decades, "every other weekend" with a weekly non-overnight "visit” for the non-custodial parent, normally the father.

This antiquated, minimal ‘standard visitation schedules’ is, according to a nationally-respected child development specialist, "child-unfriendly" and befitting only "disinterested" fathers.

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Parent Like A Divorced Dad: SelfHelpMagazine.com

Jun 25, 2009

An article by DadsDivorce.com editor, Rick Ortiz, was recently published on SelfHelpMagazine.com.

The article, "Parent Like A Divorced Dad," was written to introduce the stepped-up parenting techniques that go far beyond the basics of child-rearing that divorced dads must learn, practice and take to the next level. "Our dads," says Ortiz. "Have to become versed in the law simply to secure another precious minute with the children whose love and time any ordinary parent might assume is ensured by law."

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Judge Judy On Child Custody

May 14, 2009

When Judy Sheindlin was on Larry King Live last week, the issue of joint custody came up. Here is an excerpt from the interview:

"I've always thought in this country we do a terrible disservice to fathers."

SHEINDLIN ("Judge Judy"): I was a lawyer in the family court for ten years. I worked for the corporation counsel's office of the City of New York. I prosecuted juvenile delinquency cases. I did support and paternity. So, I was in the trenches and even then, Larry, it took me time.

KING: I had a judge who became a federal judge told me once that the hardest thing to decide was custody cases. First he had no experience. Who has experience with custody cases? He's been happily married, has children. Who gets whom? Isn't that the hardest to give a child from one parent to another?

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