Child Custody
How Does a CHINS Case Effect Child Custody in a Pending Divorce or Modification Case?
CHINS stands for “child in need of services”, and a CHINS case is filed by the State of Indiana, with the Department of Child Services
CHINS stands for “child in need of services”, and a CHINS case is filed by the State of Indiana, with the Department of Child Services
Child custody determinations are made by the court in divorce and paternity proceedings when the parties cannot reach an agreement on their own. In both
In most cases, one (1) party “loses” the custody arrangement they sought in their divorce, paternity case, or modification matter. As most litigants know, there
In Indiana, there are two (2) type of “custody”: physical custody and legal custody. Either one may be sole in one parent or joint. Sole
Contentions custody battles are unlike anything else in the domestic law arena. Both parents are convinced that their custody positions are correct, and they are
State law requires parents to financially support their children. This means that when parents are not residing in the same household or have legally divorced,
All states have a waiting, or cooling off, period which does not allow divorcing couples to finalize their divorce for a specific amount of time.
Children are not born with court orders saying who has custody, nor does the court rush an order over to the hospital. As long as
For the most part, domestic law, including child custody laws, are similar amongst the fifty (50) states. That said, there are differences that can be
As an outsider to the legal world, child custody may seem obvious—it is which parent gets the child during the pendency of the divorce and
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