Sometimes, it seems like filing for custody is a good way to stake your claim on your child and prevent your child’s father from getting any crazy ideas about who is going to be the primary custodian for your child. In custody cases, you often have to ask yourself whether there really is a custody...
Child Custody
When your relationship with the father of your children doesn’t work out, it’s normal to want to make a change. Especially in military families, where the family relocates solely because of dad’s job, it makes sense that the first thing these moms think of is moving back home to be closer to their family and...
As much as no one wants it to happen, the kids are always right smack dab in the middle of a divorce. Kids often feel a tremendous amount of responsibility for the breakdown of the marriage, and that responsibility can cause them to act out in ways that are confusing for their parents. “Do I...
When the court has to determine custody, it looks at a number of factors. One of those factors is the physical and mental condition of the parties. Now, this doesn't mean that the court is going to perform a physical fitness test and expect you to do 20 pull ups and run a mile under...
Even if you’re an experienced military wife, there may be things about the military that you don’t know and, if you don’t ask, could ultimately hurt you in your divorce. If you’re hoping to get information from a JAG attorney (or, even worse, his attorney) you could find yourself receiving less than you deserve in...
There are a lot of people who live in the Hampton Roads area because the military brought them here, and for no other reason. For many area women, they have followed their husbands here because it was where he was stationed, but their families, job experience, and other connections are elsewhere. When the marriage fails,...
In my blog yesterday, I wrote about what happens when dad wants to delegate his visitation during deployment to his new wife. This can be a very upsetting thing for moms to have to deal with, especially because it’s typically completely unexpected. There are a lot of competing emotions when a relationship breaks down, and...
If your child’s father is in the military, he isn’t the only person who can exercise his visitation. A military parent who is deploying has the ability to delegate his visitation to a family member, including a step parent, provided that the court finds that this delegation satisfies a two part test. First, the family...