What if Your Older Child is Telling You They Want Custody or Parenting Time Arrangement Changed?
What you should be doing if you have an older child who is telling you that he or she wants the custody or parenting time arrangements to be changed.
I had this issue just come up in one of my cases and let me give you a little background. I have a client and he had custody of his three boys as they were growing up but as the boys were growing up one of them started to give him a hassle a few years ago saying that he wanted to live with mom who lives in Arizona and father by the way lives in a different state.
So father and mother went through a couple of rounds of litigation where they were battling over whether the boy would get to come and live with mother or not and ultimately in those rounds of litigation they settled the case. But more recently the boy came to spend time with mother during summer break and at the end of summer break he essentially refused to go home. The boy is 16 years old according to the mother the boy refused to get in the plane to get in the car to...
