How to Get Your Father’s Rights!

Father’s rights come up in a variety of situations, whether you are divorcing/divorced or were never married, you have rights to your children and you need to know what they are and how to fight for them.

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hiring an attorney skilled in Father’s Rights is of utmost importance.
The main issues that you, as a father, will be presented with are:

£ Child Custody

£ Child Visitation

£ Child Support.

£ How the Children Are Raised and Father’s Rights

Child Custody

Gone are the days where mom always wins custody of the kids. courts are now beginning to turn the corner and realize that a good parent does not always need to be a woman.

Fathers have the same right to physical custody as a mother, and the case needs to be made to the court properly to show that custody with you is in the “best interests of the child.”

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Child Visitation Rights
Visitation, also known as parenting time, is time when your kids spend time with the non-custodial parent. Fathers can pursue this right and ask for the court to make visitatio possible if the battle for physical custody has been lost.

Unless there is some type of physical endangerment to the child, courts will allow because they realize that a father’s involvement in their children’s lives are important to their overall growth.

Showing that you have proper sleeping arrangements, a clean home, and free time to spend with your kids is essential to making the argument for your rights to visitation time.

Child Support Rights
Child support is paid to the parent that is the full-time parent (the custodial parent). If this is a father, the mother must pay child support since the kids are living with dad. Many people think that fathers do not get the right to ask for child support.

If the kids live with you, you should be getting money from the mother of those children.
If you are the father and you are not the custodial or residential parent, than you must pay child support based on either a percentage of your income or based on the needs of the child.

How the Children Are Raised and Father’s Rights
Father’s, even if not the custodial parent, deserve to have a say in how the child is raised. This involves big things like the health care of the children and what school they will attend.

It also involves other things, such as extracurricular activitie. If the mother will not let you be involved in your child’s life for these things, you must go to court and ask for the judge to force her to do so.

Hiring an attorney to draft a proper Parenting Agreement is important as it will lay out the necessary details of how the kids are raised and who has what responsibilities.
Don’t wait until it’s too late to fight for your rights as a father.

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