You love your child, and you want to do what's right for them. You aren't so sure that your ex-partner is doing all she should be doing for them. Every time you go online, she's denigrating you. Every time you open a message from her, she's asking for money or saying...
Year: 2020
A divorce may be worth much more than the cost
Divorce used to be rarer in the United States and many other places for a lot of reasons. Courts often needed a specific legal reason to grant one, like adultery or deception about not being previously married. A social stigma was often exacted in small communities...
What do I do after receiving a protection order?
If you are served with a protection order, you probably have a lot of questions right away. Unfortunately, the officer who shows the order for the first time is rarely the person to ask. It may make the most sense to give these questions to a lawyer who can help...
The relationship with your ex can impact your children
Being a non-custodial father is a challenging situation, especially in today's society in which fathers are usually very involved in their child's life. Fathers who find themselves in this position need to remember that building the relationship with their children...
Why would fathers need to prove they are fathers?
When you love a child, you don't much care what your specific relationship to one is beyond knowing who is family. This connection may be most common in biological parents in a marriage, but there are all sorts of modern ways that families come together or work...
Parenting plans can work out the future for parents and children
Fathers have the same rights as mothers under Nebraska law when it comes to child custody or visitation. The main priority of a court ruling on these issues is the best interests of the child. So, parents often have to show that the lifestyle that they can offer is...
Tips for being a successful single father
Being a single parent is tough, whether you are a mother or father. You'll never be fully prepared for the challenges that single parenthood brings, and, likely, it's not how you ever envisioned bringing up your child. However, if you are a single parent, you'll need...
Child custody in Nebraska doesn’t default to mothers
There was a time in which divorces involving children almost always went one way. Mothers almost invariably got sole custody of children, with the social belief that women were the only natural nurturers and caregivers of young people. Recent studies have shown that...
Keeping calm during a divorce is vital
If a person married someone, there was love of some kind. It may have been a self-interested love or even a misguided love, but love is a strong and positive emotion. Even when it is turned into hate, the intensity remains the same. But most people don't want to hurt...
Proving paternity is more than saying you’re the father
Nebraska allows men who believe they may be the unrecognized father of a child to assert a right for a paternity test. A marital connection to the mother at birth may be recognized as legal paternity, but it can be overturned if a person shows biological evidence of...