Parenting

Child Custody Parenting Separation & Divorce

If you have been denied visitation, you will need to take steps toward exercising your parental rights. Some parents decide that informal custody arrangements will work for them. But one parent may later decide to deny the other parent visitation…

North Carolina Custody Laws for Unmarried Parents

If you have become a parent and are unmarried, you may feel as if asserting your parental rights is difficult. In North Carolina, unmarried parents have important rights to custody and visitation. It is vital to understand your rights, because…

Grandparents’ Rights in North Carolina

Child Support Lifestyle Parenting Relationships

Grandparents have important rights regarding child custody in North Carolina. While the law recognizes parents’ fundamental and long-standing right to have custody of their children, grandparents can have custody or visitation rights in certain situations. Typically, child custody decisions favor…

Who Pays for Child Care After the Divorce?

If you are thinking about divorce, you may wonder who pays for child care once you separate. Your children may need extra child care because you and your ex are living separately. Someone must pay for the care and costs…

Visitation Rights and Electronic Communications

If you are dealing with a child custody case, you should know about how visitation rights work using electronic communications. Keeping connected with your child is even more important when someone else has custody of them for part or all…

North Carolina Visitation Rights Explained

Child Custody Parenting Separation & Divorce

When you are involved in a child custody case, you need to understand your or your co-parent’s potential visitation rights. If you or your co-parent is granted visitation, it will be important to follow the visitation rules and respect your…

Who Can Win Custody of a Child?

In North Carolina, either parent could win custody of a child. Making a decision about who has custody is complicated and involves many factors. If you have questions about who can have custody, there is a lot to learn. Factors…

Can a Child Choose Which Parent to Live With?

Child Custody Lifestyle Parenting

Dealing with a child custody dispute can be an extremely emotional and difficult experience for you and your children. Unfortunately, your child has limited input on which parent should have custody. This can add additional stress to the situation if…

What to Do If Your Spouse Won’t Follow a Child Custody Agreement

Child Custody Child Support Domestic Violence Parenting Relationships

If your spouse won’t follow your child custody agreement, you may need legal help to enforce it. Dealing with joint custody can be time-consuming and difficult on its own – let alone if your spouse ignores your agreement. How Do…

Childcare, Child Custody, and COVID-19

The COVID-19 global health crisis has stretched parents to their limits. Along with the human tragedy of this pandemic, parents have experienced the practical implications daily for half a year. At the risk of understating the problem, parents have had…

Can a Parent’s Right be Terminated?

Courts in North Carolina operate under a presumption that parents’ rights to their children are a significant one, and that it serves the best interest of children to have an ongoing relationship with their parents. Despite that parental rights are…

Adjusting to New Normals as a Parent

Living in a time of historic social unrest and a global pandemic is hard for all of us to balance and grasp. These new normals have come swiftly and stunningly, leaving us with unprecedented worries about health, about financial struggle,…

Parenting in Uncertain Times

COVID 19 has put us in an unprecedented situation that our generation has never known. In a matter of weeks, we went from hearing about a terrible virus that was shutting down other parts of the world, to living it…

Helping Your Child Cope in a Stressful World

No matter what your political affiliation, there is no disputing that we are living in a stressful time. There seem to be endless global conflicts in which people flippantly talk about World War 3, debates about climate change and raging…

Maintaining Contact With Your Out of State Child

Courts are well aware that it serves children to have a continuous relationship with both parents after a separation or divorce. The dissolution of the family unit may be a harsh disruption for a child, so even when a court…

The Rights and Duties of Parents in North Carolina

Parenthood is among the great joys in the lives of those blessed with children. With the joy comes an incredible sense of duty and obligation to nurture them and raise them well. There are also legal rights and duties that…

Supporting a Struggling Child

As difficult as divorce and child custody issues can be for parents, it is worse for their children. Even if they had witnessed arguments and tension between their parents, they still had the stability of living under the same roof…

A Child’s Best Interest: From a Lawyer’s Perspective

When family courts decide issues relating to child custody decisions, the law requires that they do so in a manner that “will best promote the interest and welfare of the child.” This is also referred to as the “best interest…

Educating Your Children During the Summer

The “summer slide” is a phenomenon that refers to the educational regression that children experience when they are away from school during their summer breaks. A lot of education is about structure and repetition. Despite parents’ best efforts, many children…

Summer Family Fun on a Budget

The school year is pretty predictable when budgeting for your children’s education. If your child is in public school, the tuition is paid for by your taxes, while you know you will be responsible for supplies, food, extracurricular activities, and…

Working Toward a Healthy Relationship as Co-Parents

When a relationship ends between people who share children, they remain forever linked by those kids. It isn’t like other relationships where the contact can completely stop. Regardless of how amicably the relationship ended, the underlying reasons that separated you…

Preparing Your Children For College