Question:How Do You Understand Child Custody Laws?

How to Understand Child Custody Laws

･ 1 Understand what child custody means. There are two types of custody-legal and physical-and you can... ･ 2 Realize that most child custody laws are state rather than federal, just as in most areas of family... ･ 3 Know what may lead a pa...

Is child support mandatory when a woman recieves full custody of ...?

In Texas a judge must order child support to be paid. Contact your lawyer for more information.

What Are Child Custody Laws?

Child custody laws are a set of laws put into place to govern the legal relationship between children and their divorced parents, while keeping the best interest of the children in mind. Child custody laws include laws that pertain to physi...

Who knows Child custody laws?

Q: Ok, my friend has an unruly teenage daughter. They got into an argument one day and the daughter left the home to go to the house of her younger brothers' father (who she has had a semi father/daughter relationship with for almost 10 years). He is not her biological father and has no blood relation to her, but he was able to file for custody of her.My friend seems to have exhausted her means to get her daughter back into her home-the child refuses to comeback and officers won't get her out. There is no complaint of abuse or neglect, but my friend doesn't understand how a man that isn't biologically related to her daughter be able to do this?Let me know if you need further details...She has not deemed unfit-As a matter of fact there is the same thing the "father" is doing for my friends son. She filed for child support in May, Paternity confirmed in June, "Father" files for custody of son in August, My friend gets temporary custody because the facts didnt add up. Now he's doing what he can to not only not pay child support, take their son away, and take her biological child away.She was a young mother and sole provider of her daughter-there was never any idea on my friends part thatshe needed to get legal custody, because there was no one to challenge custody.

A: Unless your friend has been deemed unfit, there is no way she would not be able to maintain custody.Either you don't really know the whole story, or she needs to get a lawyer.