Who gets child custody? Green Card holder mother or US Citizen father?
Mother is educated, studying for PhD, has steady income of $1200 pcm. Father doesn’t have high school diploma, works in retail or catering making $2000 pcm but changes job a lot because he gets sacked. Battle over custody. Mother got her green card through US Citizen husband who is the father of the child.
Who gets child custody?
The child stays with the mother, most courts always grant custody to the mother unless she gives it to the father, because then the child will be able to stay in the US, if they have been together long enough to meet the letter of the law, then she can stay here too. Talk to a good immigration lawyer.
September 28th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
How should we know.This is UK not USA.
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September 28th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Whoever the judge feels would be a better parent for the child.
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September 28th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
The child stays with the mother, most courts always grant custody to the mother unless she gives it to the father, because then the child will be able to stay in the US, if they have been together long enough to meet the letter of the law, then she can stay here too. Talk to a good immigration lawyer.
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September 28th, 2008 at 2:58 pm
If the mother is a permanent resident of the U.S., citizenship should not be a factor in selecting custody. Do expect that there will be a restriction keeping the mother from taking the children out of the country or changing their residency.
It is more likely that the court will award Joint Custody between the two parents. The child is likely to live with whichever parent has the most logical work hours.
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September 28th, 2008 at 3:12 pm
if the child was born in the US then the mother would be allowed to stay, it sounds like she would get custody because she sounds more stable
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