Another in a long-line of high-profile divorce and custody cases, comes Janine Lindemulder’s fight to obtain custody of her daughter, Sunny James, from father Jesse James.
Sunny has been in the custody of father Jesse James and his wife, Sandra Bullock for the better part of the last year while Janine was serving a stint in [...]

According to allegations by Levi Johnston, he is suffering some measure of custodial interference by Bristol Palin and/or the Palin family.  This is driving his desire to file for joint custody of their son, Tripp, in Alaska.
If you’ve been following the media and their voracious appetite for scandal, it would appear that neither side is [...]

Interestingly enough, the open line of this People article makes a quip about Shaq “throwing a brick” when it comes to marriage.  I guess it’s too hard to believe that perhaps his wife, Va’shaundya O’Neal has “committed a foul” with how this situation has been handled so far.
We’ll get to watch another high-profile divorce and [...]

The terms “bird nesting” is creeping into the family court, child custody, and parenting arrangement vernacular. We’re not entirely sure why.
Bird nesting is becoming an alternative post-divorce child custody arrangement in which the divorced parents of the children move into and out of the a primary residence while the children stay-put. That primary residence [...]

Each day in America, the men and women of the United States Armed Forces - Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines - are placing themselves in danger. Serious danger. They do this so that we and the citizens of other countries may have a better life and future.
Often overlooked in these daily fights is [...]

While we tend to work with people involved in high-conflict circumstances, there are those divorced parents out there who have moved beyond those issues that contributed to the demise of their relationship. These parents work together when it comes to the upbringing of their children and work very hard to disallow any issues from [...]

Our continuing Mr. Custody Coach blog talk radio program has a new show on the schedule for October 7th, 2009.  We will be discussing some of the Dirty Tricks Used in Custody Battles. Live chat will be open and, time permitting, phone calls will be taken so that you may share your experiences and/or [...]

Another case where a parent kidnaps her children to a foreign country.  This time, it’s India and there is no extradition for such an offense.
We’ve previously highlighted the case of Christopher Savoie, currently incarcerated in Japan for trying to retrieve his children, kidnapped by his ex-wife.  Japan is not a party to the Hague Convention [...]

Isaac and Rebecca Savoie, children born of the marriage between Christopher Savoie and his now ex-wife, Norika, were kidnapped by their mother and hurried off to Japan last August.  After the abduction, police issued an arrest warrant for Norika and court authorities gave sole custody of the children to Christopher.
In an effort to reclaim the [...]

Perhaps the single toughest issue facing fathers going through a high-conflict divorce matter - is managing to obtain meaningful time with the children in the aftermath.  Obtaining significant parenting time (custody) of their children is frequently a difficult objective to achieve for a whole host of reasons.
Throughout history, legal presumptions about child custody for [...]