Northern Virginia Child Custody Attorney
When dealing with child custody or visitation, people need both a caring and supportive atmosphere and a lawyer with proven legal ability and experience. The lawyers of The Maddox Law Firm, P.C. have provided skilled and compassionate guidance to thousands of people throughout Virginia.
Our child custody attorneys handle a wide range of visitation and child custody matters, including:
- Child custody, visitation
- Joint, shared, legal, and physical custody
- Grandparent custody, grandparent visitation and grandparent rights
- Interstate jurisdictional issues involving the Parental Kidnapping Prevention Act (PKPA), Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act (UCCJEA), Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction, International Jurisdictional Issues, and International Child Abduction Remedies Act (ICARA)
- Custody and visitation settlement agreements
- Paternity, paternity testing, and acknowledgement of paternity
- Temporary custody and supervised visitation
- Modifying child custody with teenagers
- Winning child custody under age 5
- Court-ordered enforcement of existing orders and contempt of court proceedings
For cases involving any of the above matters, our lawyers meet extensively with clients to ensure that we are best fulfilling their specific needs and wishes. We then work hard to convince courts of the validity of your desired child custody arrangements. When making legal child custody evaluations, courts in Virginia consider many factors; including
- The mental and physical health of the child
- The mental and physical health of the parents
- The relationships between the child and the parents
- The relationships between the child and any siblings
- The role each parent will play in the child’s upbringing
- Each parent’s ability to allow the child to have contact with the other parent
- Each parent’s demonstrated ability to maintain a close relationship with the child
- Any history of abuse
- Other issues the court deems appropriate
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For more information about child custody and visitation laws, please contact our lawyers today. For further information about a variety of legal topics please visit our E-Newsletter, our Web Blog our Family Law Information Center, or our Child Custody & Visitation Practice Center.
