Most states laws provide that a court is to award custody based on the best interests of the child. State laws allow a court to consider numerous factors to determine the best interests of the child. Many states begin with a presumption that it is best for the child to maintain continuous contact of some sort with each parent.
The parent who does not receive legal or primary custody usually will have reasonable visitation rights. This may include every other weekend, some holidays, and time in the summer.
- What different types of child custody are there?
- What is child custody?
- What happens if your former spouse to whom you are paying alimony remarries?
- What are the factors a court considers in deciding whether and how much to award in alimony?
- What are the different types of alimony?
- What is alimony
- How does a court determine how to apportion marital property?
- Can separate property be converted to marital property during the course of a marriage?
- How can a spouse ensure that property remains separate?
- How does a court determine whether property is marital/community property or separate property?
- Are divorces no fault or fault based?
- Can you file for divorce in a state that is not the state in which you were married?
- Can persons separate without filing for a divorce?
- What is recrimination?
- What is condonation?
- What types of crimes committed by a spouse give the other spouse grounds for divorce?
- If your spouse leaves and doesn’t come back, is that grounds for divorce?
- What are irreconcilable differences ?
- What are typical grounds for divorce?
- How can a marriage be annulled?
