Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

Question:

I am concerned for my son's mental and physical well-being and want to know how to address medical issues if I am not the custodial parent.

He recently had surgery and since then he has been desperate for me, crying every time I leave and all week while he's at his mother's house. I want to find out why he is behaving so different and erratic, but my ex-wife is the parent responsible for education and medicine decisions.

If I take him to a doctor without her consent, I likely will be in trouble for disobeying the court order, though.

What are my options to get him help?

Question:

We share joint physical custody almost 50/50, but my ex is listed as the primary custodial parent simply because she works from home.

Because she is listed as the primary parent, I am obligated to pay child support yet the child support calculations did not account for her salary. Is this correct?

Also, if we are splitting parenting time why is it that I am obligated to pay child support simply because of a technicality that we had to list one parent as "primary"?

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 Julie Garrison

Special to DadsDivorce.com

There are more than three times as many single-mom households (12.7 million) as there are single-dad households (4 million), according to the U.S. Census.

Unfortunately, divorced dads raising children as a single-parent household have a difficult row to hoe.

This is because the phenomenon of divorced dads as custodial parents is still in the trailblazing phase.

Question:

My ex-wife and I have operated off a 50-50 verbal child custody agreement since our divorce several years ago.

Our divorce decree only gave me parenting time every other weekend so our verbal agreement really benefited my children and I. Now she says she wants to revert back to the original court-ordered custody arrangement.

Do I have any rights to enforce our verbal child custody agreement?