The answer to your question is dependent on how the children's names are changed. If it is just a Petition for Change of Name, that would not...

A parenting plan can provide for a custody schedule for now and then a different custody schedule once your children's father is released from...

The answer to your question lies less in the law and more in the custom of the judges in the county where your custody order was entered. Every...

You are allowed to designate any person that you want to make medical decisions for you so long as that person is an adult and mentally competent...

Since your daughter is 21, your husband would have to file a Petition for an Adult Adoption. Your daughter would have to consent. Nobody else...

If you marry your fiance, after six months, you can file for a stepparent adoption. If your child's father does not consent to the adoption, you...

If the child support order was set for both children and does not provide for a step down when one is emancipated, then you continue to pay that...

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Clearly, the two are not going to be able to work this out without involving the courts. Your brother-in-law needs to immediately schedule a...

That depends on whether you have a court order giving the grandparents visitation for one weekend per month. If there is no court judgment, and you...

The question is — what would the court do if you went to court to establish a custodial plan? The courts usually allow the parent to designate...