Multi-State Fathers' Rights & Divorce Law Blog

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, June 10, 2016. You may have been married in St. Louis and lived your married life here. You may then have divorced at a court in St. Louis. With the great upheaval of your divorce, the separating of your household into two independent units, the interaction between you and your former spouse and operational details of the child custody or visitation schedule, you may find other challenges and changes. You could be faced with the challenge of either needing to change jobs or of having a job change forced upon you.

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Wednesday, January 6, 2016. Just across the river from St. Louis, in Illinois, divorce attorneys will have to speak to their clients differently. No more will they discuss child custody, but instead, the “allocation of parenting time and responsibility.” Their clients will be referred to as “spouses” and not “husbands and wives,” but rather “spouses.” On the one hand, it may seem insubstantial. Does it really matter that the time a child spends with their parents is called “custody” or “parenting time?” In fact, it may. One of the problems with the

On behalf of Stange Law Firm, PC posted in Child Custody on Friday, May 27, 2016. For many parents, during a divorce, they really do want to meet the statutory standard of the “best interests of the child” when making decisions about their child. Many truly believe they are doing what is best for their children. But for any divorced parent, it is a daunting standard and it may not be easily attained. Because it means when the child’s other parent does something that irritates you or frustrates you, you say nothing. When they are late in exchanging your child, either on the pickup or drop-off,