Divorce Advice for Men | Fathers Rights Divorce | Child Custody

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?

Question:

My ex-wife has primary custody of our son, but I would like to know if I can modify the child custody schedule due to his poor grades.

Over the last several years our son has failed the majority of his classes and gotten in trouble at school, including a recent suspension.

Is the fact that he is failing out of school and is routinely in trouble because of his poor behavior enough of a reason to attempt to modify child custody and have him live with me?

Question:

How do child support laws address paying for school lunches?

My ex-wife is asking me for more money to cover the cost of lunch on top of the child support I already pay.

Are school lunches covered by child support, and is there any written documentation I can provide to my ex-wife?

Question:

My ex-wife and I share child custody 50-50. We live near each other but in different school district boundaries.

She wants to pull our kids out of the school district they have been in their whole lives (the one in my neighborhood) and enroll them in a school district closer to her a few miles away.

Can my ex-wife place the children in another school district without my consent?

By Lisa S. Brown

Board Certified Counselor

It seems to come earlier and earlier each year, but there is no mistaking we’re in the back to school season.

The daunting task of re-adjusting to a new school year - or for some of you starting the school year as a single father for the first time - has prompted me to compile a list of divorce tips for men that will help you and your kids find success at the beginning of the new school year.