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Child Custody

By Barbara Handschu and Mary Kay Kisthardt
February 25, 2005

We live in a mobile society. Parents with a child in common may move from state to state, with or without the child involved in the moves. People with court orders granting custody or access to a child, sometimes including grandparents or siblings who have statutory rights, may not be in the same state as a child. They may need to enforce or modify custodial determinations.

The modifiability of custody orders — their very fluidity, until children become of age — necessitates frequent reviews of custody arrangements, often after the parties and/or the child have left the original state that reviewed custody terms.

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