Articles Posted in Child Custody

As we have discussed here before (In the Battle of the Fit Parents, Breadwinning Moms are Losing Child Custody), more working mothers are losing custody of their children. With these bad economic times, it is reasonable to anticipate that more and more people, moms and dads alike, are falling behind…

A very common misconception regarding child custody stems from a real legal doctrine that was recognized by courts in the not-so-distant past: the tender years presumption. Under this judicial doctrine, a child of a “tender age” – typically, seven years old or younger – is presumed to need to stay…