A birth certificate is an official document, so it’s understandable that you’d expect it to have some legal effect on child custody issues. However, a birth certificate by itself doesn’t necessarily grant any custody rights to the person named as the father when the child’s…
When it comes to determining custody for your child, you want to make sure you’re doing what’s best for them. This depends on a wide array of constantly-changing factors. You want to do everything possible to ensure their well-being, and sometimes this includes altering your…
Several years ago, your rights as a mother or father might have been affected by your marital status. Whether or not you were married when you had a child certainly impacted how the courts and society viewed you. However, in more recent years, parents are…
When two people exchange wedding vows, a messy breakup may be the last thing on their minds. However, the sad truth is that many relationships do not last. According to the American Psychological Association (APA), between 40 and 50 percent of all marriages in the…
