Nolo's Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support

by Emily Doskow Attorney

Overview

Custody and Support: Get the Answers You Need

When you’re getting divorced, you can make a tough time easier for yourself and your children if you work with the other parent to agree on a custody plan and child support. If you can’t resolve these issues, you’ll have to head to court and ask a judge to decide for you.

Either way, Nolo’s Essential Guide to Child Custody & Support can help. You’ll learn:

• how negotiation and mediation can keep costs down and improve future dealings with your ex
• where to find your state’s child support guidelines
• how judges make custody decisions
• how to enforce and change custody and support orders
• how court trials work
• how Covid-19 is affecting custody arrangements and family court hearings, and
• when you need a lawyer and how to work with one.

You’ll also find updated specifics about each state’s laws, including what factors courts consider when they rule on custody arrangements and what happens when one parent wants to move away with the children.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781413331097
Publisher:	NOLO
Publication date:	11/28/2023
Edition description:	Sixth Edition
Pages:	384
Product dimensions:	7.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Emily Doskow is a practicing attorney and mediator who has worked with families in the Bay Area for more than 22 years. She specializes in family law, including adoption, parentage issues, domestic partnership formation and dissolution, and divorce. She is a graduate of Berkeley Law at the Universityof California. She is the author of Nolo's Essential Guide to Divorce and coauthor of A Legal Guide for Lesbian & Gay Couples.

Table of Contents

Introduction 1. Basics of Divorce 2. Basics of Child Custody 3. Basics of Child Support 4. When You Decide to Divorce: The First Month 5. Avoiding Custody or Support Trial: Alternatives to Court 6. Dealing With the Court: Paperwork and Court Hearings 7. Going to Trial 8. Custody Orders: Living With, Enforcing, and Changing Them 9. Child Support Orders: Living With, Enforcing, and Changing Them 10. Worst Case Scenarios: Kidnapping, Abuse, and Interferences With Custody 11. Custody and Support in Military Families 12. The Law: How to Work With a Lawyer and Do Your Own Legal Research Index

Interviews

Nolo’s Essential Guide to Child Custody and Support is designed to demystify and clarify the sometimes confusing world of co-parenting during and after a divorce. It will provide you with guidance on how to create a parenting plan that puts your kids first, and guide you through deciding on appropriate support amounts as well.

Editorial Reviews

This book arms readers with the tools they need, whether they are working to craft a reasonable custody and support agreement or facing a contentious court battle. An essential title.” Library Journal

“Nolo is a pioneer in both consumer and business self-help books and software.” Los Angeles Times

"Doskow walks parents considering divorce through the legal aspects of child custody, shared parenting, and the rules about supporting their children. She also explains what it is like to take a divorce to court, and how to deal with custody and support orders if your circumstances change once the orders are in place, or if the other parent is not complying with the orders. Her topics include the basics of child custody, the first month after deciding on divorce, avoiding a custody or support trial: alternatives to court, dealing with the court: paperwork and court hearings, custody and support in military families, and how to work with a lawyer and do your own legal research. She appends 50-state charts on such matters as residency requirements, court and court-related websites, and custody modification statures." Eithne O'Leyne Editor, ProtoView

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