Increasingly, separated and divorced parents are either choosing or being forced by courts to share parenting time equally. While it makes sense for a parent with minority time to pay support to a ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Patricia writes about family law and tips for female lawyers. “Bird nesting (or nesting, as it is more commonly referred to) in a ...

One of the most common family law myths is that mothers are always awarded custody of their children and that fathers are always the ones paying support. However, neither of those statements are true.

Custody of minor children is usually written up as “joint” in the divorce decree. There is usually a distinction between “legal custody,” in which parents have equal rights regarding decision-making, ...

Deviation From Shared Custody Guidelines Requires More Than Common Sense While the principles are clearly laudable, the Wald case now imposes apparently new practical requirements upon trial judges ...

Shared parenting refers to an arrangement where both parents actively participate in raising their children after separation or divorce. Both parents share decisions and time with their children, ...

As I have blogged here before, despite it not being the law and not really supported by the social science, many judges and even many custody experts have taken the position that 50-50 custody should ...