Multi-State Fathers' Rights & Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Thursday, July 21, 2011. The American Medical Association is increasingly worried for our nation’s children, and they are calling for drastic action. A commentary in a recent American Medical Association Journal proposed that obese children be removed from their parents’ custody and placed into foster care to receive the diet and exercise they need. If childhood obesity becomes grounds for removal of a child from the family home, it will have an impact on how custody determinations are made in divorce proceedings. Parents may have to provide evidence to the judge that they are

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, July 15, 2011. Child custody battles between two parents can get pretty heated, and in some situations one parent will even make allegations against the other as a way to try and win custody. Recently this happened when a 21-year-old mother lied to police about her ex breaking a restraining order. According to sources, the woman had called police at approximately 1:30 a.m. and claimed that her ex had just violated the restraining order she had against him by showing up at her apartment intoxicated and yelling at her. She also claimed

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, July 8, 2011. International child abductions by parents are on the rise. For last year alone it was reported that 1,500 children were unlawfully taking from one of their parents and transported to a foreign country by their other parent. One man has been dealing with this nightmare for the past nine years after his ex whisked his child away to Mexico during an unsupervised visitation. At the time the father had custody of his then 4-year-old daughter. Since then the father said he once spotted his daughter in Mexico City in 2003

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, July 6, 2011. Primary child custody is no longer the exclusive domain of biological mothers as over the past few years more and more fathers are being awarded custody and are taking on the responsibility of being a single parent. In 2006 a survey was conducted by participating attorneys of the American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and from there it was discovered that there has been a shift in the court systems with more judges realizing that the best interest of the child may be to live primarily with their father,