Tag: Child Custody
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Sometimes The System Fails Parents – And The Price Kids Pay is Very High! (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us again. As we mentioned in the previous article, the judicial system is not perfect. Judges are human beings with biases and life experiences that affect their perspectives, which in turn impacts the decisions they make in court. Since most judges today grew up in an era when moms…
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Sometimes The System Fails Parents – And The Price Kids Pay is Very High! (Pt 1)
The last 100 years have seen huge social changes when it comes to human rights. Women, children, people of color, the LGBTQ community – there is no end to the positive changes that have occurred in recent decades when it comes to awareness of people’s rights, and knowing how they should be treated. But it’s…
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What Michigan Parents Need to Know About Interstate Custody.
Most Michigan parents who get divorced have to deal with the frustrations of custody agreements and parenting time orders at some point or another. But very few of them ever have to deal with the complexities of interstate custody – that is, figuring out a custody agreement that takes into account parents who live in…
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8 Tips For Parents Preparing For a Custody Battle (Pt 2)
Welcome back and thanks for joining us. We’ve been talking about the issue of custody, and how parents who are preparing to go to war over the issue of who gets the kids, should have a handbook full of pointers and tips to help them make good choices. But since there isn’t a how-to-survive-your-custody-battle handbook,…
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8 Tips For Parents Preparing For a Custody Battle (Pt 1)
Getting divorced is hard. Very hard! But when you have kids, and you and your spouse can’t agree on who they should live with and for how long, things can get very, very complicated. Custody is always a touchy issue for divorcing parents, and having to duke it out with your least favorite person in…
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When Can I Stop Paying Child Support in Michigan?
In most cases, when parents get divorced, they have to work out a custody agreement to determine which parent gets to spend time with their children and when. But visitation and custody are only a portion of the decisions that need to be made – another one is child support. And this one is almost…
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Can The Legalization of Marijuana Affect Your Custody Agreement in Michigan?
For many, the legalization of recreational marijuana in Michigan was a long-awaited victory. An opportunity to tell the federal government (yet again) that they’re not in compliance with the will of the people, and a chance to indulge in something that they didn’t believe should carry a prison sentence! But not everyone felt that way.…
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Why The Court Can Make You Travel Hundreds Of Miles Out Of State For Proceedings!
Let’s say you and your significant other have a child together in New York, and then you both decided to separate. You and the child move to Michigan, and you ex-significant other moves to California. You file a request for child custody and child support here in Michigan, and the court tells you that…
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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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Could Publicly Shaming a Child Affect Your Custody Agreement?
It may seem like a strange question to ask, but the answer is quite surprising, especially if you haven’t thought about it before. Because yes – publicly shaming a child could actually affect your custody agreement, and not in a good way! Not sure what we mean? Let’s take a look… What is…