Child Custody

Custody battles can be damaging to all involved, but they take on a special dimension when they become international border disputes. Hundreds of children leave the United States with one parent every year, leaving the other parent behind to desperately seek a remedy...

Texas parents often ask if a court has the power to change its earlier order for child custody. The court has this power, but it must be properly invoked. The state of Texas provides a number of do-it-yourself options for use by persons who do not want or cannot...

Going through a divorce is hard. No matter how long a Dallas resident has been married to their spouse or how much money they have, it is difficult to end a relationship that had been made legal through marriage. Most individuals are able to work through and complete...

Of all the issues which must be dealt with during a divorce, child custody may be the most emotional. This is your child, after all – there isn’t anything more important. The good news is that you will have a say in how custody is decided. What is a parenting plan? A...

Parental alienation may happen where there is a high-conflict divorce and a child strongly identifies with one parent over the other. Signs of parental alienation The alienating parent may pressure the child to feel hatred toward the other parent and reject him or...

When parents divorce, they often have a child custody arrangement that addresses their responsibilities for the child. Sometimes, if there is a custody dispute, one parent may take the child without the other parent’s knowledge or permission, called abduction. When...

Marriages end for a variety of reasons. A couple may decide to end things after discovering that their marriage has simply run its course due to ‘irreconcilable differences.’ In other cases, one spouse will decide to end the marriage due to the actions of the other...

There are a lot of divorce and family law issues that can become contentious, but in a lot of cases none are more important than those pertaining to child custody and visitation. That’s one reason why superstar actors Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt have been battling...

Child custody disputes can be complicated matters in any situation, but these disputes are compounded when a parent absconds with the child out of the U.S. Every day, children in the U.S. are wrongfully removed from the country in violation of parental rights. For...

Reality television provides many Dallas residents with entertainment to pull them away from their own daily lives. However, from time to time the real lives of such stars take heartbreaking and relatable turns. Two such stars, Kathryn Dennis and Thomas Ravenel of the...