Among the Ask a Divorce Lawyer questions answered today by Cordell & Cordell attorneys:

• If she gets an equity loan on her gifted property, will that debt also be my debt in divorce?
• Do I and my ex wife have to file bankruptcy together or apart?
• In order to keep the house, can we settle on a child support payment amount that is less than the Friend of Court would determine?
• Is infidelity ever taken into account when awarding parenting time or child support?
• Is it considered kidnapping if the father does not consent to his children moving?
• Can grandparents seek custody?
• Can I ask to be my niece's legal guardian even if I'm stationed overseas?
• Where should I file the modification if I don't live where the divorce took place?

Among the Ask a Divorce Lawyer questions answered today by Cordell & Cordell attorneys:

• I'm currently unemployed but will start a job soon. Is my child support determined by my current unemployed status or by my pending future salary?
• My ex came after me for child support for a child that is 14 years old and I’m not sure is mine. What can I do?
• Is it true that it is against the law to make a provision for the support of children over the age of 18?
• My ex wife filed a motion for order permitting travel to Brazil with the kids. I'm afraid she won't return. What can I do to stop her?
• How is maintenance calculated?
• The judge granted our request to dismiss our uncontested divorce. Does this mean the mediation agreement is null and void as well?

DadsDivorce Live host Rick Ortiz talks with Fathers & Families' legislative representative Michael Robinson, who worked with Mark Sullivan of the American Bar Association on federal military parent legislation. 

Thanks in part to their work, the National Defense Reauthorization Act (HR 2647), which was signed by President Obama in October 2009, mandates that the Secretary of Defense produce a report on child custody litigation involving members of the Armed Forces, as well as international intrafamilial abductions of servicemembers’ children.

The Secretary of Defense will submit its report to the Armed Services Committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives by the end of March. This problem affects both fathers and mothers who serve. If you are a military mother or father whose custody rights have been adversely affected due to your service, make sure your story is included in the Secretary of Defense’s report.

You can learn more about the Fathers & Families organization at www.fathersandfamilies.org.

Question: I am in the Army. My wife and I have been separated for almost two years mostly due to my deployments. My wife is now pregnant with another man’s baby, who she is now living with. 

Our daughter is 12 years old and wants to come live with me. But my wife is prohibiting her from coming to live with me and for some reason she won’t give me a divorce. 

What can I do?

Question: My wife and I want a divorce. She is pregnant with our child, and now I am deployed overseas and will not be home for the birth of our child. 

She doesn't want to put me on the birth certificate as the father and she wants the baby to have her maiden name. 

Is that possible and what can be done? Can I force her to put my name on the birth certificate or have the baby take my last name since it is my child?