Child Custody With The Family Law Practice At Levy Craig Makes Children The Priority
February 26, 2020
Child custody is the most important issue in a divorce for many families. Having an experienced family law child custody lawyer like the Family Law Practice at Levy Craig is important, because they make the children a priority when handling the case. There are different types of custody and plans the Family Law Practice at Levy Craig can help families with.
In a vast majority of cases, the law favors joint legal custody. Legal custody is the ability to make major decisions that affect your children’s health, education and welfare. Legal custody has nothing to do with the schedule of when the children reside with each parent. Parents who have joint legal custody make all major decisions together and neither parent has the power to make major decisions for the children without the other parent.
In a divorce or paternity case, the parents must decide, or have the court decide, the issue of physical custody. The options are joint physical custody and sole physical custody. The law has specific requirements for a parent to have sole physical custody. Kim Scheuerman, one of our firm’s experienced family law child custody lawyers, is available to speak with you about whether or not sole physical custody is in your children’s best interest.
As a family law attorney, Kim strives to promote her client’s interests and achieve long-lasting solutions that are best for the whole family. She focuses on representing clients facing divorce, legal separation, paternity, child custody, modification, child support, and relocation issues.
Additionally, Kim regularly serves as a Guardian Ad Litem, representing the interests of minor children in divorce, custody, relocation, and order of protection cases where there have been allegations of abuse or neglect.
Joint physical child custody can involve many, many different types of schedules, based on many factors, in order to address your children’s best interests. The law favors a schedule that offers the children frequent and meaningful time with both parents. In some families, it is in the children’s best interest to spend equal amounts of time with each parent. This is regularly referred to as a shared or equal parenting schedule.
Ultimately, a parenting plan will be ordered by the court. The parenting plan can be agreed to by the parents through negotiation or mediation or, if the parents are not able to agree, the court will decide the parenting plan after hearing evidence from both parties to determine what is in the children’s best interest. The parenting plan will include details for both legal and physical child custody.
The Levy Craig family law team makes client satisfaction, good communication and strong, effective advocacy a top priority. To schedule a consultation about child custody, call (816) 454-7474.
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