If your sister will be the one make educational decisions, then there is no reason to force her to explore schools in NJ. Forcing her to do that,...

My husband is in the navy and he is very abusive mentally he only married me to get extra money and I recently have a miscarrage

You can file for divorce under irretrievable breakdown. All you have to allege is that there has been a breakdown in your marriage for a period of...

Child support payments

Child Support is retroactive to the date that she make the demand for support. She can make the demand in the Action for Divorce or in a petition...

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How to stop support now that my son live with me

If your son has resided in NY with you for the past 6 months, you can file a petiton to terminate support payments being made to the mother. The...

Can a parent take a child when it's not their scheduled visitation time?

What she is, or is not, allowed to do should be spelled out in your custody agreement/order, the entirety of which should be given to the school...

Have our first step parent adoption hearing next month. What do we expect? it was not contested, We did without a lawyer.

Did the father sign the proper consent? The father should be at the hearing so that he can be questioned by the judge and so he can relinquish his...

My second husband can file a case bigamy to me?

If you never divorced your first husband, then you are not legally married to the second man. Whether you will be charged with bigamy is up to the...

I have 4 children with my ex-husband. He hasn't seen them in a year. He was very verbally abusive to all of them.

In order for him to adopt them you need their fathers consent or you would have to have grounds to terminate his parental rights.

Need advice

I agree with the previous posters do absolutely nothing. I also changed your tag so that you will get other responses.

Is there a chance for the father of three children get custody of at least one child in NYC?

A custody determination is made in the best interests of the children. The facts that you list are but some factors the court will consider when...

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