Grandparent Visitation Rights in New York

If it's as you say, the Court would likely award some level of visitation. The real question would be, given your move, how much visitation. That...

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I will be turning 18 soon and want to know what i have to do to be free from guardians jurisdiction?

For the purposes you state, you are an adult at the age of 18. If you leave your parent's house & control before the age of 21, however, you may...

Do the parents need an attorney to change the last name on a birth certificate of their first child?

Whether you can do it or not in AK would depend on AK law - thus you'd need to re-post your question in the AK lawyer forum. To do it in New York,...

Who will have to pay for travel cost if custodial parent moved out if state?

Generally you would need to pay the costs of visiting the child, though such costs may be considered "extraordinary visitation expenses" on the...

Uncontested divorce

Assuming you're at the stage where you've submitted the "Judgment package" (including the proposed judgment of divorce), most counties in NYC will...

Visitation rights during separation?

At this point, you should consider either filing for divorce, on the one hand, or for custody on the other. Filing for custody will trigger an...

I have 6 kids with my x. Never married. She wants to move the kids to another state. Does she have the right to relocate ?

It's not so much that you have no rights, but the question will ultimately be that if she cannot effectively raise the children here in New York -...

My wife was cheating on my for several years finally she moved out of my apartment and I want to know if she can get my IRA mone

As a general rule, assets such as IRA's are divided 50-50, though there are exceptions to that general rule. Most likely, upon the finalization of...

Family law support needed: regarding compelling intervening with respect to Private Schooling.

Many attorneys feel (myself included) that we cannot "ghost-write" a brief, and then have you sign off on it. Either the attorney would need to be...

Can you drop charges against someone else in a domestic violence case?

It's up the the D.A. whether to withdraw the case. You should speak with the ADA on the case as well as the other side's defense attorney. Should...