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

• My ex is withholding information I think I should have a legal right to such as our child's social security number and birth certificate. How can I get this information from her?
• My son lives in a different state from where our divorce was finalized and the age of emancipation is lower there. Which state's rules of emancipation apply?
• I was served with the petition for dissolution and my spouse's attorney added the children as petitioners. Is this common and what is the strategy behind it?
• Our kids are constantly tardy or absent from school when staying with their mother. What can I do?
• If we get a divorce and he moves out of the country, can I still get child support?

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

• Can I move the kids to a different school district if they want to?
• Can she later seek alimony if she waived her right to it in the divorce decree? 
• I owe more in back child support than I make in a year. What should I do?
• Am I able to block my ex from getting me a DNA test to prove the child isn't mine?
• How can I revise my parenting plan if the visitation schedule no longer works because my wife and daughters moved out of state?

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

• How do I get back overpayments of child support?
• Do child support obligations include medical and daycare expenses?
• Can my ex wife's new husband claim our son on his taxes?
• Can back child support that accrues ever be dismissed?
• Can I refuse to sign a separation agreement?
• How should verbal agreements be documented?
• When alimony stops, can I also stop paying for my ex wife's health insurance?

Question: My wife has custody of our children on the divorce decree. However, she has recently sent the kids out of state to live with me and my current wife for the school year. She is also planning on moving out of the state where our divorce took place. 

Our divorce decree has not been updated. At the end of school she plans on getting the children back. I want the kids to have a stable life and not have to keep moving back and forth. 

Now that the kids are in my home can she force me to give the kids back now that will have been with me for several months? If I fight it, do I stand a chance of keeping the kids or will the state take the mother’s side?

Question: My boyfriend has a 4-year-old son. He shares 50% custody with the child’s mother. The mother is in contempt of court since she violated the custody orders and moved two hours away and out of the county. In the past, she last left the child with his dad for nearly 4 months with no contact, frequently misses picking up her son when her week starts, is late dropping the child off, etc. 

Now the mother is saying she has already enrolled my boyfriend’s son in school, which she cannot do. My boyfriend contacted a lawyer several months ago and was told that there was nothing to be done right now since the circumstances were not directly affecting the child. Is this correct? 

The father would like to have full custody of the child. The mother is apparently not stable enough to care for this child. My fear is that my boyfriend is going to get some bad advice and end up sprinting for the courtroom at the last minute because someone told him to wait. What should he do to save his child?