Parent Custody Blog

Parent Custody â One parentâs look at a broken custody and support system

admin — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 17:44:33 +0000

I am a father of three boys. I have one of them living with me as his mother had some “issues”. I am the one with parent custody (placement is the actual correct term here). The other two are living with their mom and I haven’t seen them in about a year and a half due to her new husband and father in law both being lawyers and some mistakes in dealing with her on my part. So obviously in this case she is the one who has parent custody.

One of the problems that I have seen in this system, which has worked both for and against me, is that unless you can afford a lawyer, your rights usually are not enforced. This is something that can be good and bad, but will rarely take into account what is best for the child or children. If both parties are reasonable, they can usually work things out, even if neither is entirely comfortable with the end result. This is usually when both parents are looking out for the child as opposed to their own self-interests.

The flip side of this is that one or both parties are not reasonable. This is far more common, and will usually end with either the person who is able to best afford the lawyer getting their way, assuming it’s not totally outrageous, or an ongoing legal battle in which the children become pawns. Neither of these options are good for the kids more often than not.

People need to learn to drop their agendas, their personal hurts, their own selfish wants and whatever bad feelings are left over for the sake of their kids. This in and of itself would solve a lot of issues when it comes to the parent custody issue. Think about it, and then think of your kids. It can make all the difference in the world.

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Can a sex offender have visitation or custody of his young child?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:27:38 +0000

i have a young daughter and now her father wants to see her after years of no contact and he is a sex offender. can he see her? or get custody?
maybe i should have elaborated a little more, i am still in high school and i have been raising my daughter with the help of my grandparents for the last 3 years and i will be graduating and going to college to be a teacher through all of this. would this be taken into consideration in court?
also he has been ordered to pay but has never paid in 3 years.

Unless he has signed away his parental rights, or a judge has terminated his parental rights, then he has a right to see her. Having said that, being a sex offender should pretty much be a no-brainer for most judges. However, you have to take this to court.

In the meantime, there is nothing saying that such visits must be unsupervised. Do not let this guy be alone with her. Ever.

Can a Father get custody of a Kid if the parents split? For Fathers who are not with the Mother of their kids?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:27:29 +0000

I am a young guy I have tried to make things work with the mother of my kids, she pretty much is illogical, irrational, and impossible to get along with sometimes. It is the worst case scenario for me but I may have to accept that we are not going to make it. It takes two people to be willing to compromise and understand and she is unwilling on all levels. I have had personal property destroyed over silly things such as turning on a light when she wants it off and other silly things such as that. Are their any fathers out there who have been able to get custody in the event the parents split. If not, are you able to be very much involved. Is it hard when the mother meets someone else and they are around your kid all the time?

Thanks

Your current state laws have much to do with how well it goes, or doesn’t go , for you.
In my husband’s case, the mother was proven unfit, unstable, and I’ll use your own words ; illogical, irrational, and impossible to get along with sometimes, and was also proven to have gone to great lengths to alienate their daughter from her father. And yet, when it came down to it (state laws and all of that ), they judge felt that it would be detrimental to remove their daughter from the mother’s custody because she had already had so many changes in her young life.

Yeah, consider that her mother and she had lived in 11 different places within 6 years, and her mother had been through marriages number 1, 2, and 3 in that same amount of time. That IS certainly lots of changes for a young child to live through.
Yet, state law, in California, obviously favors the mother, no matter whether it’s a sound decision or not.

I suggest that you research your own state…… and also prepare yourself for the worst.
Also, if it doesn’t end up going well for you, there are online support groups and advocates for father’s rights.

Anyplace but Y!A…. for some reason, it’s not okay for a father (or his wife) to complain when things don’t go his way in court, they’re just expected to sit down, shut up, and finish the ride.

My father has legal custody of me until the age of twenty-one. Can I move out at age 18?

admin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 09:27:19 +0000

So me and my father are having problems. He is too controlling, and I want to move out. He says that the custody papers he has says that he has custody of me until the age of 21. I want to be on my own and move out. Is there anything I can do?

once you turn 18 you can move out..
the papar just states he can claim you until your 221 from your mother

Michael Jackson’s Mother Files for Custody

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:19 +0000

Jackson family seeks custody of the children and rights to manage his estate.

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Child Support, Child Custody Modification

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:17 +0000

Stay out of court. This video will give you a few pointers on Support and Custody modifications.

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Mike Turner’s Testimony About the Need to Protect Child Custody Rights of Military Service Members

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:15 +0000

Congressman Turner testifying before the Economic Opportunity Subcommittee of the Veterans’ Affairs Committee about the need to protect child custody rights of military service members as specified in his bill, HR4469.

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Kelis Wants Nas Held In Contempt For Unpaid Child Support

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:14 +0000

In the latest edition of The Jewelry Report, Kelis finds herself petitioning a Judge to hold Nas in contempt of court after he failed to begin making his monthly $50,000 child support payments.

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MOM Brainwashed by Cult Killed Son

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:11 +0000

Toddler ’starved to death by cult’
A toddler whose remains were found inside a suitcase in Philadelphia this spring was starved to death by members of a religious cult, including his mother, in part because he refused to say “amen” after meals, police said.

Ria Ramkissoon, the mother of Javon Thompson, was charged with first-degree murder in the boy’s death, and Baltimore police said that three other members of a group called 1 Mind Ministries have also been charged with first-degree murder.

Police and Ramkissoon’s family say the group is a cult.

Members did not seek medical care for Javon when he stopped breathing, and the boy died in his mother’s arms, according to court documents that described police interviews with a confidential informant and two children. He would have been about 15 months old when police say adults stopped feeding him in December 2006.

Ramkissoon, 21, was being held in the psychiatric ward of Baltimore’s Central Booking and Intake Centre, and a bail review was postponed until Wednesday.

The three other people charged in Javon’s death - Queen Antoinette, 40, also known as Toni Ellsberry or Toni Sloan; Marcus Cobbs, 21; and Trevia Williams, also 21 - were already in custody.

They were arrested in May in New York City on warrants charging them with failure to appear in court in Baltimore. Those charges stemmed from a scuffle with police in a child custody dispute.

A fifth alleged cult member, Steven Bynum, has been charged in a warrant with first-degree murder and remains at large, police said. He was believed to be in New York.

Ramkissoon’s family said she should not be held responsible for her son’s death. “She had no control over that situation at all,” her stepfather, Craig Newton, said.

Ramkissoon’s mother, Seeta Khadan-Newton, told The Baltimore Sun that it wasn’t her daughter’s decision not to feed the boy. “My daughter was a victim, just like my grandson,” Ms Khadan-Newton said. “Somebody made that decision to not feed that child, and my daughter had to follow instructions.”

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Divorce & Child Custody Lawyer in Knoxville & Sevierville

admin — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:43:10 +0000

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