Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

Question:

My ex and I have joint physical and legal child custody of our son.

However, she has moved out of state saying she would return periodically for visitation.

Is she allowed to move out of state without the court's permission? Would this be considered abandonment by ignoring the court order and her son?

By Matt Allen

Editor, DadsDivorce.com

There are now more children who live with unwed, cohabiting parents than with divorced parents and that affects fathers rights to child custody, according to a recent report. 

The National Marriage Project and the Institute for American Values reports there are 12 times as many cohabiting couples with children as there were in 1970.

By the time children reach 12 years old, 42 percent of them have lived with cohabitating parents while only 24 percent have lived with parents who have divorced, according to the National Survey of Family Growth.

If you are in a cohabiting relationship, you need to be aware of your rights to your children and if your partner has any rights to your assets should the relationship end.

Studies have shown non-marital unions are much less stable so it’s important to protect your interests before a break up.

Question:

My ex-wife and I share child custody 50-50. We live near each other but in different school district boundaries.

She wants to pull our kids out of the school district they have been in their whole lives (the one in my neighborhood) and enroll them in a school district closer to her a few miles away.

Can my ex-wife place the children in another school district without my consent?

Question:

My child needs braces, yet my ex-wife is refusing to pay her portion of the uninsured costs as outlined in our divorce judgment. Per our child custody agreements, we share joint legal custody so we have joint decision-making authority on children's health issues.

She claims she cannot afford it now and wants to wait another year, but the cost of the braces plan is only going to go up. She has not expressed any other concerns other than financial since she knows our son needs braces.

What are the child custody laws if I were to have the braces placed on our son and simply file a request with the court to enforce our health cost agreement?

Question:

I am still legally married to my husband, but I am having another man's child. My husband and I have been separated for years, and I do not know where he is or how to locate him to divorce him.

If the child is born while I'm still married, will the child be considered my husband's even though he is not the biological father?