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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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Present the Judge with Your Best Evidence Today is your day in court. How is that going to look? What are we going to tell the Judge, and how do we present our evidence? The easiest way to present evidence, and the most common way to present evidence is going to be through testimony. You’re going to […]
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Who Decides Custody if We Go to Court? We’ll start by talking about who decides custody when you go to trial. That’s going to be your judge. When you file your lawsuit in North Carolina, you’re going to get a judicial assignment. And that’s going to show you who your judge is. We also operate […]
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So, just who decides child custody? We’ll start by talking about who decides custody when you go to trial. That’s going to be your judge. When you file your lawsuit in North Carolina, you’re going to get a judicial assignment. And that’s going to show you who your judge is. We also operate in North […]
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We’re going to start talking about Judges and the courtroom. I don’t want you to go ahead and tune out. Even if you think that you’re absolutely certain that you can reach an outside of court agreement on custody, and that you’re never going to see the inside of a court room, you need to […]
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Joint vs Sole Custody So we’re going to move on now and talk about some of this terminology. This is a very difficult thing to talk about when it comes to child custody, because everybody has this idea in their head of what joint custody means, or what sole custody means. You hear people talk […]
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Court Order vs. Separation Agreement So we’re going to spend a moment here to talk about the difference between a court order and a separation agreement. So what we’ve been talking about so far is an agreement–an outside of court agreement–that’s the separation agreement. The court order is different from the separation agreement in 2 […]
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