Modification
What is a substantial change of circumstances?
A Court has this at the inception of a child custody case if the MC has lived in the state since birth or for the preceding 6 months ahead of filing.
What is home state jurisdiction?
Legal custody typically covers these decisions for MC.
This is the act that determines procedures for deployed or deploying parents.
What is the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act?
Grandparents in custody must: (3)
The kind of change that can meet the standard for a modification.
What is a positive or negative, but more than speculative?
This is the test to determine initial jurisdiction for NC if there is no home state jurisdiction for any state.
What is the child and the child's parents, or the child and at least one parent or a person acting as a parent, have a significant connection with this State other than mere physical presence; and Substantial evidence is available in this State concerning the child's care, protection, training, and personal relationships?
This must be considered by the Court, but cannot be deciding factor.
What are the wishes of the child?
Deployment is defined as this.
What is the movement or mobilization of a service member to a location for more than 90 days but less than 18 months, pursuant to an official order that:
When a parent dies or is TPR'd during custody litigation, this happens to grandparent claims.
What is they are lost unless already pending?
What are likelihood of realistic visitation; likelihood that moving party will comply with jurisdiction after moving; integrity of parent challenging move; motive of parent seeking move; and advantages of relocation on improving MC's life.
A state can exercise this type of jurisdiction if the child is present in this State and the child has been abandoned or it is necessary in an emergency to protect the child because the child, or a sibling or parent of the child, is subjected to or threatened with mistreatment or abuse.
What is temporary, emergency jurisdiction?
If one party asks for this, the Court MUST consider it.
What is joint custody?
These people may have temporary custodial rights during a parent's deployment, with limitations.
What are nonparents? (These rights terminate when deployment ends.
This must be shown for a nonparent to be granted custodial rights.
What is that both parents have acted inconsistent with their constitutionally protected rights as parents?
In a motion to modify custody, a party must do this.
These are the inconvenient forum factors.
What are:
If this is present, the Court must consider it in its order.
What is domestic violence?
Court is limited in caretaking authority to nonparents to:
What is
If a family is this, a grandparent has no right to bring a claim for visitation.
What is intact?
After showing a change in circumstances, the Court must consider this.
A state will retain this so long as MC, parent, or person acting as parent has a significant connection to state and substantial evidence is available in state.
What is continuing, exclusive jurisdiction?
A Court may require a parent to abstain from or be monitored for this.
What is alcohol?
These are the two avenues to obtain a temporary order addressing custody during a parent's deployment.
What are agreement or temporary custody hearing?
These two things are not synonymous for grandparents as they are between parents.
What are custody and visitation?