Family law
Next Entries »Protecting Custody for Deployed Parents
Tuesday, June 19th, 2007The House of Representatives moved Wednesday, June 6th, to protect deployed service members from losing legal custody of their children. An amendment to the 2008 defense authorization bill, approved by voice vote, prevents states from making permanent custody changes while a service member is deployed on a contingency operation. It also [...]
Know Your Rights Regarding Out of State Child Support Orders
Monday, July 31st, 2006The Uniform Interstate Family Support Act (UIFSA) was enacted in 1992 and amended in 1996 in an effort to ensure a child support obligation could not be evaded by simply moving across state lines. By 1998 every state including the District of Columbia had adopted UIFSA as the uniform method to establish, modify and enforce [...]
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