Saturday, May 25, 2013

Equal Custody Between Parents Should Be the Legal Norm

Family law is an area that is full of legal presumptions. There are presumptions about who is a legal parent. There are presumptions in many states about what property is jointly owned. These are just two such examples. Yet, there is one presumption that seems to be missing from the body of legal presumptions in family law: the presumption that equal custody timesharing is appropriate for children involved in divorce and paternity custody disputes.
Each year, cases are tied up in court by one parent trying to maintain control over the custody of the children. In these situations, the parent who is seeking equal custody can be tied up in very expensive litigation to establish a right that to their children that, had the parents not been divorced, they would automatically have.
Let's face it: when people are living together (whether married or not, and in the read more at: ttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/fred-silberberg/equal-custody-between-par_b_1625939.html r

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