The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act or UCCJEA deals with the enforcement of modification of Custody/Legal Decision Making and/or Parenting Time from different states and different countries. The uniform act was drafted by the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform Stat Laws back in 1997 in their mission to create laws that will
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Putative Father Registry A.R.S. § 8-106.01
Paternity proceedings can be messy, especially if you are lacking information about the child or the birth of the child. The Putative Father Registry is a method for a Father to legally claim his rights to paternity. It is a useful tool for a person who believes he is the father of a child, but
Rights of the Mother
It is a popular belief that Arizona is a more “mother-friendly” state, meaning that in most paternity cases, mothers are usually awarded superior rights to the child. This belief is only partially true – once legal paternity is established by the child’s father the playing field evens out substantially. As an unwed mother, you have
What to Do If Your Child Is in Danger?
In an emergency situation you can file a Petition for a Temporary Order Without Notice simultaneously with a Petition to Modify Parenting Time. The court will hear it on an emergency basis if the child is in imminent risk of serious harm. The Court will deem the following as an emergency situation: 1. Abuse 2.
Petitions to Modify Require a Change of Circumstance
In order to file to modify an existing order, a parent must wait an entire year from the date the last parenting time order was entered. In order to file to file to modify because the other parent is not complying with the existing order, you only have to wait six months. If it is
DOMESTICATION OF YOUR DIVORCE DECREE OR JUDGMENT FROM ANOTHER STATE OR EVEN ANOTHER COUNTY IN ARIZONA
Domestication of Your Divorce Decree Due to the mobile nature of our society, it can be difficult to predict where you or your family will end up. If you find yourself moving to Arizona after having secured a divorce decree or judgment that was adjudicated in another state or country, and you wish to enforce
CHILD SUPPORT ACROSS THE COUNTRY – UIFSA
Collecting your child support payments shouldn’t be difficult, but as we all know, it can be. If the other parent lives in a different state, there are additional steps you need to take to collect your court ordered support, but there is a uniform law in place to make that collection easier. Enforcement of Child
CUSTODY ACROSS THE WORLD – HAGUE CONVENTION
If you have minor children and are in the midst of a divorce or a child custody battle with a parent who lives in another country, you may face a whole different set of issues. Not only do you have to find a way to establish jurisdiction for your child’s custody in your home state
CUSTODY ACROSS THE COUNTRY – UCCJEA
Jurisdiction can be summed up as the power to make legal decisions and orders. A court must have jurisdiction over a case to make decisions that bind the parties. Jurisdiction is very important in the context of family law because each state has its own interpretation about how custody, child support, spousal maintenance and basically
LEGAL DECISION-MAKING AND PARENTING TIME – FORMERLY KNOWN AS “CUSTODY”
In a divorce, issues related to the children are usually the most important. Accordingly, questions about how the court will award legal decision making and parenting time are among the most common. Most people use the term “custody” to describe which parent the child lives with most of the time; however, Arizona now breaks what
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