{"id":647,"date":"2016-12-28T10:09:17","date_gmt":"2016-12-28T10:09:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haroldweiser.com\/\/?p=564"},"modified":"2025-12-28T12:07:11","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T12:07:11","slug":"divorcelawyerneworleansnola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlinewebsolutions.store\/haroldweiser\/divorcelawyerneworleansnola\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans Divorce Lawyer"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"647\" class=\"elementor elementor-647\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-32871315 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"32871315\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-settings=\"{&quot;background_background&quot;:&quot;classic&quot;}\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-468c4dc6 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"468c4dc6\" data-element_type=\"container\" 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data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>In\u00a0Louisiana, the law is clear regarding married spouses when they get a divorce as to who has rights to a child and who gets paid child support.<\/p><h4>But what happens if mommy and daddy were never married?\u00a0\u00a0And what happens if mommy gets a new boyfriend who raises the child?\u00a0\u00a0Under these situations, the law gets a bit muddy.<\/h4><p>Assuming for a moment that mommy and daddy, who never get married, have two kids and then split up, who gets custody?\u00a0\u00a0The answer is \u201cit depends.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0In the best interests of the child, the court will look at several factors to determine which party should be given custody and what restrictions (if any) should apply.<\/p><h4>Joint custody is the most common form of custody where one parent has \u201cdomiciliary custody\u201d and the other parent gets \u201cvisitation.\u201d<\/h4><p>Everyone knows at least one horror story of a court awarding custody to one parent who later abuses that power and authority or uses the children as weapons to hurt the other parent.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Louisiana\u00a0the Legislature has actively attempted to remove any sex based preference so that Moms no longer automatically get custody with dads forced to pay child support and get the legendary \u201cevery other weekend\u201d visitation.\u00a0\u00a0However, the Courts have been slow to adopt such a progressive attitude and, generally speaking, moms still get domiciliary custody more often than fathers and dads are still forced into the \u201cevery other weekend\u201d routine.<\/p><p>Why?\u00a0Because the factors that are analyzed seem heavily weighted to which parent can put in the most time with the child\u00a0<em>during the day<\/em>.\u00a0\u00a0So, a dad who works from\u00a07am\u00a0to\u00a03pm\u00a0is, in our experience, more likely to get custody of the child than the dad who works from\u00a01pm\u00a0to\u00a09pm.\u00a0\u00a0However, if mom is unemployed, she can spend all day with the kids, and thus her chances of getting domiciliary custody of the child is greater than Dads!\u00a0\u00a0Even is she is unemployed by choice and fully capable of getting a job!<\/p><p>Interestingly, even where both Mom and Dad work the same shift, the court has, in our experience, continued to give mom domiciliary custody and forced dad into an every other weekend routine.<\/p><p>But\u2026what happens if mom gets a NEW boyfriend and HE raises the child, and then mom and new boyfriend break up?\u00a0\u00a0Does the new boyfriend have a right to custody or visitation?\u00a0\u00a0The answer is\u2026generally\u2026NO.\u00a0\u00a0While there is always a chance that, under unusual circumstances, the court will grant the new boyfriend some level of visitation, the Court has routinely stated that decisions of a biological parent will be assumed to be in the best interests of the child and, absent evidence to the contrary, will stand.<\/p><p>Of course the good news for the new boyfriend, is that he likely will not be required to pay child support.<\/p><h4>Louisiana\u00a0courts can rule for different types of custody besides just \u201cjoint\u201d custody.\u00a0\u00a0In\u00a0Louisiana, there is also \u201cShared\u201d custody, \u201cSplit\u201d custody, and of course \u201cSole\u201d Custody.<\/h4><p>Shared custody is where parents have the children 1\/2 the time.\u00a0\u00a0This can be implemented with a \u201cWeek on \u2013 Week off\u201d plan or something similar where mom and dad alternate what week they have the kids.\u00a0\u00a0This plan is especially effective when both parents are getting along, live pretty close to the kids\u2019 school and have similar schedules.<\/p><p>Split\u00a0custody is where there are two or more kids and one child lives with mom and one child lives with dad.\u00a0\u00a0Generally, this is seen more often in households where the children are teenagers and can make choices regarding which parent they want to stay with.\u00a0\u00a0Indeed, one particular case,\u00a0<em>Wages v. Wages<\/em>, the Court decided that 15 year old child could decide which parent he wanted to live with.\u00a0They said, \u201cIn a case such as this, where the parents are equally balanced vis a vis the factors set forth in article 134, the preference of a mature and grounded teenager such as Jon is certainly entitled to great weight.\u201d<\/p><p>Sole custody is exactly what it sounds like\u2026one parent has all the rights to the child and the other parent has no choice or voice in the upbringing of the child.\u00a0\u00a0Sole custody is generally NOT in the best interests of the child and the court will harshly analyze any parent who alleges they should have sole custody.\u00a0\u00a0If you are going to demand sole custody\u2026make sure you have PROOF of serious damage to the child from the other parent or a great reason why that parent should not have access to the child.\u00a0\u00a0This office has never witnessed a grant of Sole custody that wasn\u2019t accompanied by substantial amounts of evidence.<\/p><h4>The importance of which type of custody is put into place is important because it goes along with child support.<\/h4><p>Sole and Joint custody versus Split and Shared custody have very different calculations for child support and can mean the difference of thousands of dollars in cash payments made from one parent to the other.<\/p><p>For More Information on Family Law Contact\u00a0<a title=\"New Orleans Divorce Lawyer\" href=\"http:\/\/haroldweiser.com\/divorce\/divorcelawyerneworleans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New Orleans Divorce Lawyer<\/a>\u00a0Harold E. 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