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What is the name of your state? California My SD is in 8th grade, she has had a 504 plan in place due to her diffculties in school from ADHD. The school offers her "accomodations" which mostly are BS. They do seat her close to the teacher in her classes. This year she has done MUCH better...

What is the name of your state? California My husband has sole physical and legal custody of his dd13. Her mother has supervised visits, however has never attended a visit in the 3 years the order has been in place. My husband gave the school copies of the court orders and occassionally when...

My friend is in the middle of a custody battle, she has had the same attorny for 2+ years. He has not been that great all along but today was the last straw. the issues she has with him are; he is always late for court, he is unprepared, and he does not REALLY fight and advocate for what she...

What is the name of your state?What is the name of your state? California My Sister in law is trying to create a simple will, she is actually not worried about her assets, just her son. She served her husband with divorce papers today, and is worried he might go off the deep end. Although...

What is the name of your state? California My husband is applying for SSI for his daughter. When he talked to them on the phone they said that depending on the circumstances they MAY take my income into account. He said it depends on the 'details'. They look at how much support the child gets...

What is the name of your state? California My husband has sole physical custody of his daughter joint legal, he would like to file for sole legal. Mostly because her mom basically abandoned her and we have a VERY hard time keeping track of her to ask her opinion on things. CSE cant even find...

What is the name of your state? California My husband is the custodial parent of his daughter. Today there was a contempt hearing for the bio mom not paying child support. She is $11,000+ in arrears but this is her first contempt hearing because DCSS had a hard time serving her with the OSC...

What is the name of your state? California What happens if you FTA at a contempt hearing for child support?? An OSC for contempt was personally served for failure to pay and failure to notify DCSS of a change in address. Will they issue a Bench warrent?? Are bench warrents served in other...

What is the name of your state? CA My husband said he wants to file for sole legal custody of SD. He has sole physical and we have not had any contact with BM for over a year now. 2 things about this worry me. He really has no good reason other than he does not have a way of checking with...

What is the name of your state? CA A friend of mine is trying to straighten out some information regarding his Child support let me give you a little background- My friend has 2 children from 2 seperate mothers. He has 2 open child support cases. The mothers live in 2 different counties...

What is the name of your state? California 3 years ago my hubby got a CO granting him sole physical custody of his daughter. When he and his ex went to mediation they agreed on joint legal custody because neither of them is too concerned with what doctor, as long as she gets to a Dr. or what...

What is the name of your state? California Does anyone have anything written in their court order about appropriate communication with the child. I know in california in some of the mediation papers it states parent may not bad mouth other parent etc. I am looking for some verbage for my...

What is the name of your state? California. My 12 year old SD has lived with my husband (and I) for the past 3 years. Before that she lived with BM. BM had SD on welfare for her whole life and my husband ALWAYS paid CS to the state. BM ordered to pay CS but never does. Recently SD has been...

What is the name of your state? CA I am looking for an addy for a good step-mom support forum. I have seen in previous posts that some of y'all know of good ones, could you please share the info. My step daughter is driving me nuts, I think I better get some help before it's too late.....and...

What is the name of your state? California I posted this in the DV area with no response. Since I previously posted about this situation under custody/visitation, I am moving the post here Today I went and started the process to have the paperwork done to file for a DV restraining order...