Category: Child Custody
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Are Frozen Embryos a Custody Issue? Or Asset Division?
Gloria Karungi and Ronaldlee Ejalu are the parents of a 7-year-old daughter who has sickle cell anemia – a disease which, up until now has offered sufferers no hope of ever being healed. However, a new stem cell treatment involving bone marrow transplants, offers new hope to those who can find donors who are…
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What is ‘Moral Fitness’ And How Does it Affect my Custody Case?
Every time a Michigan family court has to evaluate a custody case and make a determination, the decisions are always made based on what the court thinks is in the best interest of the child. To help the judge make the right determination, there’s a standardised list of twelve ‘best interest factors.’ However, if…
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Is Your Ex Trying to Move Away With Your Kids? (Part 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. In our previous past we looked at what a Michigan parent with a custody agreement would have to do if they wanted to move away, or leave the state. As we pointed out, there are rules governing how far a parent can move without getting…
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Can a Parent Really Kidnap Their Own Child?
For some, the idea that a parent could kidnap their own child might sound preposterous. After all, this is your child! How could it possibly be kidnapping if you took them somewhere with you? And yet the answer to the question is yes – it can happen, and it does! Kidnapping is a…
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Are You Trying to Get Custody of Your Children in Michigan? (Part 2)
In part one of this series on gaining custody of your children, we looked at how a custody agreement is usually reached. We also talked about some factors that the court considers important when changing custody agreements. Moving on, we’re going to look at what determining factors the court uses to make child custody…
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Are You Trying to Get Custody of Your Children in Michigan? (Part 1)
There isn’t a day that goes by, where we don’t get a call from a parent who’s desperately trying to get custody of their children. When you consider it from their perspective, it’s the most normal thing in the world – parents love their kids, and don’t want to be without them! (We’re parents,…
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Narcissism Part Four: Co-parenting With a Narcissist
Welcome back to the final wrap-up of our four-part series on narcissism and divorce. Having talked about what divorcing a narcissist is like, we’d like to finish this with a few pointers about co-parenting with a narcissist. Which means we’ve left the hardest part for last. Why? Because if you thought divorcing a narcissist…
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Refusal to Vaccinate Lands One Michigan Mother in Jail!
Many parents disagree on how to raise their children. Subjects like bedtime, dietary restrictions and even school of choice can be a source of contention. But it’s not often that parents end up in court over disagreements about their child’s medical care. However, a Ferndale mother was just sentenced to jail for refusing to…
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The Role of Fathers in Michigan Custody Cases
With the current emphasis on the value of fatherhood, more and more fathers are taking active roles in the day-to-day lives of their children. We see that trend all over Michigan. Traditional family structures and gender roles are being abandoned in favor of more equality between spouses in a family. More women are in…
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Establishing Paternity in Michigan: What You Need To Know 2
In the previous segment we looked at what Michigan law defines as “paternity”, and what the purpose is of the Michigan Paternity Act. In this segment we are going to look at the different ways that legal fatherhood can be established in the eyes of the court. How paternity is established: Paternity, if…