Custody orders dictate not only physical custody arrangements but often determine school selection, transportation responsibilities and legal custody issues. Custody litigation invokes the question as ...

A Maine mom challenges a judge’s sweeping order that barred her from taking her daughter to church or teaching the Bible.

An excerpt from the >9000-word In the Interest of O.S. & U.S., decided Thursday by Texas Court of Appeals Justice Wade Birdwell, joined by Justices Elizabeth Kerr & Dabney Bassel: Appellant A.H.

Emily Bickford is challenging a December 2024 custody order that prohibits her from bringing her daughter to Calvary Chapel in Westbrook.

Stutee Nag, international family law attorney licensed to practice law in New York State and India. Courtesy photo When a child has been wrongfully removed from the U.S., a parent would typically look ...

Family law uses child custody and visitation rights to decide how parents divide childcare responsibilities and spending time with their children during or after their separation. Child custody ...

It is long-standing law in Massachusetts that the best interests of a child govern custody disputes. Said another way, when parents cannot agree and the court has to make custody and parenting time ...

A trial judge had found that the mother had "intentionally weaponized" child abuse reports, and required her to so state in any future child abuse allegations made to authorities. In last week's ...

After more than a decade of debate, Maryland legislators have codified the factors a court considers in making custody determinations, a bill lawmakers and advocates say eases the burden for ...