Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

By Sara Pitcher

Noblesville, Indiana Divorce Lawyer

Financial support is rarely awarded in animal custody cases because of the continuing contact required between the parties and the drain enforcement would be on judicial resources, similar to visitation cases.

Question:

My child support questions is regarding my new new job that will require me to miss periods of parenting time with my children over the coming year.

My ex-wife says that she can modify my child support to increase my child support since she will have more parenting time.

Am I required to pay any additional money if I do not see my kids on the weekend that I am scheduled?

Also, I would like to modify my divorce order so that we split transportation so that I do not have to both drop off and pick up the kids during every visitation. Is that possible?

Question:

My question is about child support and paternity laws.

I am the biological father of a child born to an ex-girlfriend, though I have not spoken or seen either in many years.

The mother of my child recently contacted me and said she wants our child to meet me so he could know who his father is.

I suspect she only wants this meeting to take place so can serve me with child support papers even though we both agreed many years ago that it would be best if I was not involved in our child's life.

How can I protect myself in this situation? Is there an agreement we can reach that will hold up in a court of law stating she will not request child support?

Question:

My ex-wife has primary child custody and she told me she is going to take our child and move out of state next week.

She told me since she is the custodial parent and I have limited visitation rights that there is nothing I can do about it.

Can she move my child out of state or is she in violation of the court's child custody order?

By Erin Brockhoff

Belleville, Illinois Divorce Lawyer

As winter weather and resulting snow days makes dreams come true for children across the country, it raises the issue of how parenting time and child custody exchanges are handled on unexpected days off from school.

Typical child custody exchanges on normal school days usually occur after school the school day ends. But who gets the child on snow days when school is canceled on little notice?

Is it treated as a holiday and parents should follow the holiday parenting time schedule or is it just considered a normal day and the child custody exchange should take place as usual even though the kids aren't in school that day?