Parents are demanding that the courts do more to help prevent parental alienation, according to a news report from May 11. Parents' rights groups across the United States brought attention to an annual day to recognize the risk of parental alienation and to begin...
Child Custody
How can parents lose custody or visitation rights?
Child custody arrangements can be some of the most difficult to make during a divorce. You want to create a fair parenting plan, but the thought of seeing your child less often than every day is something you don't want to agree to. Despite that, you and your spouse...
What are the Connecticut child custody laws?
If you are considering a divorce in Connecticut and you have children, you should make sure you know the laws regarding child custody. The way that those laws might affect child custody decisions in your divorce will be important and could influence your next move....
What do you know about Connecticut child custody laws?
In Connecticut, divorces where children are involved, the court's intention is to put children first. Since children have no choice in a divorce, this is good thing. It ensures someone is looking out for their interests. So you shouldn't be surprised when your...
Parenting with your ex
Parenting with your ex can be a good thing, and unless you have had a really bitter divorce, you could probably make it happen. However, it might take some effort. Here's how one couple does it. The couple has one son, and when they divorced, they agreed that in an...
Divorce is not all about the adults
When couples make a decision to divorce, it is usually about the adults. Once the decision is made, thinking about how it will affect the children usually comes next. Most people will tell you that it is not healthy for children when parents stay together if they no...
Where does Connecticut rate in amicable divorces?
Divorces can often be nasty, confrontational disputes between two people who once pledged to love each other forever. Life events can happen that create such pain and emotional heartache that the same two people can end up despising each other. In high asset divorces,...
Custody battle ensues between Jennifer Hudson and ex-fiancé
Jennifer Hudson, from "The Voice," and her ex-fiancé, David Otunga, have called it quits. Although the couple never married, but remained engaged for nine years, they have an 8-year-old son, David Jr., who is about to be caught in a custody battle, it appears. Otunga,...
An example of the child protection system failure
Residents in the Hartford region shared shock and disgust when it learned that a small boy placed in a home by the Department of Children and Families (DCF) nearly starved to death. The entire situation is too complex to detail here, but some of the important facts...
Consider changing the way you perceive child custody
Even though we are attorneys who are committed to the law and to the preservation of family, we believe that the legal aspects of child custody can complicate matters in some cases. This does not mean we think that parents in the midst of child custody proceedings...