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Spending time with your child and remaining active in their life is often challenging if you and your partner split. For Alaska dads not married to their child’s mom at the time of birth, obtaining joint custody may require establishing paternity and potentially...
There is likely a multitude of reasons why you and your ex-wife filed for divorce. It is also likely that difficult communication was one of the reasons. Regardless of your communication woes, if you and your ex-wife have children together you will need to navigate...
After a divorce, the courts order child custody by assessing the best interests of your children. As a father, you may worry that you will not receive equal time with your children. Many men worry about favored mothers in the court system. However, according to Live...
“Fathers’ rights” is a term of fairly recent origin that refers to the rights you have as the father of your children. These rights generally come into play in a family law setting, and have become a popular practice area for attorneys who seek to uphold these rights....
It is becoming more common for divorcing parents to share custody rather than the mother receiving sole custody and the father getting visitation. This comes about as parenting roles continue to shift and the understanding of the important role that a father has to...
If you are like most men, you strive to be the best dad you can be. This is especially important when going through a divorce. Even when it is in the best interest of the entire family, divorce has a significant emotional effect on you, as well as your kids. If your...
As an Alaskan man, you might wonder if family courts stack the deck against you and your custody claims. The misconception that a single mother is always better at raising children than a single father is tough to shake. You may be the parent in a better position to...
Data from Pew Research indicates that the role of fathers in a family has changed over the past 50 years. Fewer fathers are sole breadwinners since 1970 with the rise of dual-income families. The percentage of fathers staying home to take care of the kids was almost...
Some people assume that child custody is almost always granted to mothers and that few fathers are custodial parents. However, statistics show that an increasing number of fathers are custodial parents. If you are in the middle of a dispute over child custody, it is...
By far, the most common variety of child custody agreement following a divorce is co-parenting. Co-parenting is when both parents share physical and legal custody of children. The court system has greatly modernized over the past 20 years: it used to be that the...