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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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If you’re one of those people that knows that you’re going to be able to reach an agreement outside of court, we need to talk about having a written custody agreement. This is very, very important and it doesn’t matter how amicable you are, how much you trust the other parent, how much you think that […]
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Reaching an Agreement When you’re reaching an outside of court agreement on custody, you maintain control over the process. You’re the one who’s driving the negotiations. You have the ability to come up with creative scheduling. You know your spouse’s schedule and your schedule and your child’s schedule and come up with something that isn’t as dry […]
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Welcome We’re going to be talking about the ins and outs and all the details that you’ll need to know about child custody as you move forward with this process. Usually if you have children, and you’re going through a divorce, this is going to be the most important thing for you. We’re going to […]
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