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Learning to Co-Parent We’re going to move on now, and we’re going talk about how to be successful co-parents. Co-parenting really is so important when it comes to child custody. You always want to put your child first, and I know it’s difficult when you know that you have all of these underlying issues and […]
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Another factor that we’re going to talk about is the child’s preference. We get asked this question all the time. “My child will definitely say that he wants to stay with me, he doesn’t like his father, he has a bad time when he goes to Dad’s house.” We hear our clients explain this to […]
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Will Your Child Testify in Court? I want to touch briefly on how the child will actually testify. Because this can be very scary for some parents, and it can be traumatizing for children to think about. Children can take the stand and testify in court, and the Judge has the ability to decide whether […]
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Some parents have a fear that they know that they haven’t necessarily been the best parent in recent years, or in recent months even, and they’re concerned that that’s going to have a huge impact on their custody case. And so, I wanted to spend a little bit of time talking about that. A lot […]
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General Parenting Issues Impacting Your Custody Outcome So we’re going to switch gears now. We’ve kind of abandoned the idea of settlement versus litigation, and we’re going to move on from the court process. We’re going to talk about some peripheral parenting issues. One thing that can pop up with parenting issues is something called a […]
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What is the Child Custody Evaluation? In some cases a Judge will order what is called a custody evaluation and this does not rear its head in every case by any means. It’s a pretty rare thing, but we’ll talk briefly about it. We also have some information about it on the actual content for […]
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Is One Parent Favored Over the Other in Court? Another question that we get asked a lot with regard to child custody is, “Is there any sense of one parent being favored over the other?” Historically a lot of people will think that mothers, or that women are going to be favored over fathers or […]
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Another factor that is going to make a difference in your custody case is, “How much work-related travel do you have?” This is becoming more and more of an issue as jobs become more and more global. There’re so many more of us now that have jobs where we’re not tethered to our desks. We […]
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New relationships can also factor into a custody determination. Let me start by telling you a little bit about what the law says. There’s case law in North Carolina that says the fact that a parent has engaged in a new relationship, is not enough to warrant a change in circumstances calling for there to […]
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Determining Child Custody Factors There are buzzwords to keep in mind with regard to child custody determination: “The best interest of the child.” They’re going to look at all the evidence. And there’re going to be factors that are going to be different in every case. But the Judge is going to consider a whole slew […]
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