I want “custody”! I have heard it hundreds of times. Every time I hear it I know right away that my potential client does not understand the difference between custody and placement. Custody has to do with making major decisions regarding your child’s life. Just because husbands and wives divorce themselves does not mean they […]
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WISCONSIN FAMILY LAW: HOW ARE PARENTAL RIGHTS TERMINATED?
Terminating a parent’s rights is not easy. It is irreversible, and completely severs a parent’s connection with the child. Parents have Constitutional rights to raise their children, and the state must have an extremely strong reason to overcome those rights. Thus, judges are understandably reluctant to terminate parental rights. Grounds for terminating rights include abandonment, […]
Wisconsin Family and Divorce Law: Termination of Parental Rights Continued
Continuing a review of issues raised in In Re Termination of Parental Rights to Guenevere T. http://www.wicourts.gov/sc/opinion/DisplayDocument.pdf?content=pdf&seqNo=64253), consider the ramifications of the father’s failure to establish rights through a formal paternity judgment. It seems that, after the father moved away, the parents agreed on an informal placement schedule. Later, the mother, due to concerns regarding […]
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