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Successful Coparenting

January 18, 2019 By Katie Carter

Successful Coparenting Working together with your child’s father isn’t easy, especially after you’ve decided that your future plans really don’t include each other. Breakups and divorces happen all the time, but, ultimately, the impact that these things have on your children is up to you. You know, or at least you probably already suspect, that your future life WILL include your child’s father – that particular fact is something that you probably realized right around the time you birthed your … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: coparenting, custody, homeschooling, joint legal custody, medical treatment, physical custody, public v private school, virginia, visitation

Virginia Joint Legal Custody and Church

August 30, 2017 By Katie Carter

Custody in Virginia comes in one of two types: legal and physical. A lot of the time, we’re fighting over physical custody, because that has to do with where the child spends the majority of his or her time. But, of course, that’s not always the case. Every so often, different issues come up, and, sometimes, it’s the legal custody part of the equation that is called into question. Legal custody, in Virginia, refers specifically to the right to make decisions on behalf of the child with respect … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: appealing case results in Virginia, best interests of the child, child support, church, custody, custody bootcamp for moms, joint legal custody, physical custody, visitation

Virginia Joint Legal Custody and School Enrollment

August 28, 2017 By Katie Carter

In Virginia, there are two different types of custody: legal custody, and physical custody. Most of the time, parents fight over physical custody, because that has to do with where a child spends the majority of his or her time. Legal custody, on the other hand, refers only to the right to make three types of decisions on behalf of the child: non emergency medical care, religious upbringing, and education. In most cases, legal custody is awarded jointly. Having joint legal custody means, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: best interests of the child, custody, divorce, homeschool, homeschooling, legal custody, physical custody, private school, public school, school

Custody in separate homes

November 25, 2016 By Katie Carter

At some point, after you and your child’s father call it quits, you’ll live in separate homes. In some ways, that makes custody of the child you share more difficult. In other ways, though, it lightens the burdens on you both. If you and your child’s father have just recently made the decision to separate, it’s daunting to think about the two of you living further apart than you do. Not so much because of each other, of course, (after all, you made the decision to end your relationship), but … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Child Custody Tagged With: different homes, divorce, legal custody, parenting time, physical custody, primary physical custody, shared custody, split custody, visitation

Small issues in Virginia custody cases

August 19, 2016 By Katie Carter

It’s easy, in a divorce, to lose sight of the forest for the trees. There’s a lot at stake, and so many different elements involved, that it’s easy to become fixated on something to the exclusion of almost everything else. Sometimes, it’s something big—like custody—and other times, in other cases, it’s something that, to me at least, seems small.  Don't focus so hard on the small issues in your Virginia custody case that you don't focus on the bigger picture things. The other day, I was talking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: award of custody, change of circumstances, custody case, custody order, legal custody, losing custody, modifiable, physical custody, Virginia custody, visitation

Custody Vocabulary

May 27, 2015 By Katie Carter

Understanding custody cases has a lot to do with understanding the vocabulary of custody cases. It’s not very complicated, but learning about custody vocabulary does require a little bit of background information before you can quickly and easily understand exactly what’s happening in your case—or what you’re even asking for! Most people talk about custody as something that is either won or lost; there’s no gray area. That’s just not accurate or realistic! In most cases, both parents are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Blog, Child, Child Custody, Library, You and Your Attorney Tagged With: custody case, custody vocabulary, guardian ad litem, legal custody, physical custody, shared custody, split custody, Virginia custody and visitation

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