How to Tell Your Spouse You Want a Divorce

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How to Tell Your Spouse You Want a Divorce

The way you start your divorce sets the stage for everything that follows, and a bad start has the potential to derail what could otherwise be a good divorce.

Free Legal Aid provides useful information about child custody. In addition to the video here, be sure you check out other resources.

Child Custody Evaluations During Divorce

Many divorcing parents are able to resolve questions about how they’ll share coparenting responsibilities and time with their children without going to court—sometimes the resolution comes during a court-ordered mediation just before the trial, but it does usually happen. check to learn more.

Termination of Parental Rights

A termination of parental rights petition is brought to permanently end the legal rights of the natural parents of a child, thereby "freeing" the child for adoption. While states differ slightly on the exact grounds for termination, most statutes hinge on the consideration of a child's best interests. check to learn more.

The Basics of Child Custody

Legal Custody refers to the right and responsibility of a parent to make decisions relating to the health, education, and general welfare of his or her child. Physical Custody refers mostly to the right and responsibility to choose where the child will live. check to learn more.

What is child custody?

Child custody laws throughout the United States seek to provide some sense of order to the disruption of divorce and separation in efforts to smooth over this transition from a unified, nuclear family to a two-household family, with the spouses/parents living separate and apart. check to learn more.

Types of Custody and Visitation

To fully understand the types of child custody and visitation available to you, you'll need to become familiar with the terminology used by legal experts. In particular, you need to understand the distinction between legal custody and physical custody. check to learn more.