It may include an arrangement between the parents where they alternate physical custody of the child. (Braiman v. Braiman, 44 NY2d 584, 407 NYS2d 449 (1978)).

The bill would have instructed judges in custody battles to weigh a parent’s support for a child’s gender identity. The governor’s veto breaks from his usual stance on transgender rights.

Joint custody is an arrangement where two co-parents share responsibility for a child–even if the parents do not live together and are not raising the child together in one household.

To find out how a mother can lose a custody battle, read on to discover when a court might determine that giving custody to someone else other than the mother is in a child’s best interests.

As any divorced parent knows, child custody and support can be extremely arbitrary. Although guidelines exist, federal law allows each state to set its own rules, and quite often states measure ...

In Pennsylvania, child support terminates when the child turns 18. In New Jersey, child support continues until the child’s emancipation; i.e. there is no automatic cut-off.

Halle Berry pays $16,000 a month in child support to her ex-partners for her two children, Nahla and Maceo. Monsters Ball ...

B.J. Walker, head of Illinois' child welfare agency, says the reasons for custody relinquishments are complex. "If law could fix problems, we'd have a different world," she says.

The man, Jesse Kipf, hacked into state death registry systems to fake his own death in part to avoid paying more than $100,000 in child support, federal prosecutors said. By Alexandra E. Petri ...