DadsDivorce.com provides essential information and resources about divorce, alimony, child support and child custody to men and fathers at any stage of divorce.

Question: I need to know when child support officially begins. Is it at the point the divorce is filed, on the date I was served?  How should I begin documenting this even if I don't have any kind of order that says I need to pay this or that amount?

What do you do if you receive custody of your alienated child? Where do you go? How do you begin rebuilding a severely compromised relationship?

DadsDivorce learned about The Rachel House and The Rachel Foundation at the recent Canadian Symposium for Parental Alienation Syndrome.

DadsDivorce editor, Rick Ortiz, discusses the hard work of recovering from PAS with Pamela Stuart Mills-Hoch, one of the founders of The Rachel House. At the Rachel House children are reunited in a "Home environment" where healing can begin again. Help and is available and hope is possible!

Watch the video after the jump!

Written by the world's foremost expert on divorce focusing on men, Cordell & Cordell, P.C. Principal Partner, Joe Cordell, JD, CPA, LL.M, this book is an absolute must for any man potentially facing divorce and especially those facing child custody issues. 

For a guy, the divorce journey is experienced in a vastly different way than it is for woman, and lack of preparation for that journey is a recipe, if not for disaster, then certainly for a difficult learning curve, the consequences of which are long-term and nearly impossible to correct after the fact.

Question:

I was granted joint custody of my son during the dissolution of my marriage and advised his mom that I would seek full custody via the courts on my son's 12th birthday. At the time of divorce, my son was 4 years old. Since that time, I have been dragged into court over false allegations and attempts to get restraining orders against me so she doesn't have to comply with the custody agreement.

Every time I go to court, I have to give my lawyer $2,500 for a retaining fee. I am determined to stay in my son's life, but at this rate I will be sitting on the curb with my house in foreclosure. What do you suggest?