Child Custody Practice and Procedure, 2023 ed.

Using “best interest” factors as the guiding force, the author of Child Custody Practice and Procedure presents strategies for winning favorable decisions in child custody arrangements and outlines procedures for obtaining initial and modification jurisdiction under:

• The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act
• The Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act
• The Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act of 1980

This title also covers:

• Declining jurisdiction
• Communicating with courts in other states
• Discovery tools such as oral, videotape, and written depositions
• Interrogatories
• Production and inspection of documents and photographs
• Request for updating answers to interrogatories
• Motions for sanctions or striking of pleadings
• Registering child custody orders
• Joint parenting agreements
• Proven trial strategies
• Selecting mental health experts
• Using expert testimony at trial
• Tips for enforcing custody and visitation orders, and modifying custody awards
• Presenting an appeal
• Enforcing custody and visitation orders
• Modifying custody awards