Summary
When you're getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for your children (and yourself) if you work with the other parent to draw up a custody plan and agree on child support. Doskow shows you how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down; where to find your state's child support guideli... Full description
- Introduction: your child custody and support companion
- Basics of divorce
- Basics of child custody
- Basics of child support
- When you decide to divorce: the fist month
- Avoiding a custody or support trial: alternatives to court
- Dealing with the court: paperwork and court hearings
- Going to trial
- Custody orders: living with, enforcing, and changing them
- Child support orders: living with, enforcing, and changing them
- Worst case scenarios: kidnapping, abuse, and interference with custody
- Custody and support in military families
- The law: how to work with a lawyer and do you own legal research.