Topic
Custody
121 published works
Divorce: New York
Appellate Reversals of Custody Decisions
By Neil Cahn
Two of three November 5, 2014 custody decisions of the Appellate Division, Second Department, reversed Family Court determinations. In the only affirmance in Mondschein v. Mondschein, the Second Department upheld the order…
New Jersey Law Blog
Divorce Trials Necessary After Unproductive Settlement Efforts
By John S. Eory
After a series of unproductive settlement efforts, the parties acknowledged that it would be necessary for a Judge to hear the facts, apply the law and determine the outcome.
The Appellate Strategist
Illinois Supreme Court Holds Custodial Parent May Be Ordered to Pay Child Support
By Kirk Jenkins
In child custody cases where the parent awarded primary custody of the children has significantly greater resources than the non-custodial parent, can a court order the custodial parent to pay…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
The Underside of Father’s Rights
By Tracy Thomas
Kelly Allison Behre (West Virginia) has posted Digging Beneath the Equality Language: The Influence of the Father's Rights Movement on Intimate Partner Violence Public Policy Debates and Family Law Reform. Here's…
Ontario Family Law Blog
What is the Difference between Joint Custody and Sole Custody
The term custody refers to how parents make decisions for their children. Joint Custody means that the major decisions are made by the parents together. Sole custody means that one…
Gender and the Law Prof Blog
Behre’s Critique of the Fathers’ Rights Movement
By John Kang
Kelly Alison Behre, WVU Law, has a paper uploaded to SSRN. The abstract intrigued me: In 2004, a fathers’ rights group formed in West Virginia to promote “Truth, Justice, and Equality…
The Appellate Strategist
Argument Report: Does Voluntarily Dismissing a Custody Petition Mean You Get Hit With The Psychologist’s Fees?
By Kirk Jenkins
In our detailed summary of the underlying facts and lower court opinions in In re Marriage of Tiballi, we wrote that the question presented was whether a parent who voluntarily…
The Appellate Strategist
Illinois Supreme Court to Decide Whether Courts Can Award Child Support From Custodial to Non-Custodial Parents
By Kirk Jenkins
Our previews of the newly allowed petitions for leave to appeal from the closing days of the November term continue with In re Marriage of Turk, which poses a potentially…
Waldlaw Blog
The Miller-McKenna Custody Battle and the Rights of Pregnant Women
By Deborah Wald
My dear friend Maggie Geddes, employment lawyer extraordinaire, sent me a note this morning about an article she saw in today's New York Times. Although I had not previously been…
NJ Family Legal Blog
A PARENT’S ILLNESS AND ITS IMPACT ON CUSTODY
To what extent can a parent's illness can have a bearing on a pending custody decision or existing custody arrangement. Oftentimes, the illness is of a mental nature, where one parent…