Custody Issues
A number of custody arrangements are possible. The most common are:
Joint Legal Custody: Means that parents will communicate and cooperate with one another and attempt to reach mutual decisions regarding major issues affecting their children. This decision making process includes, but is not limited to: major medical decisions, educational decisions, and religious upbringing, if any.
Joint Physical Custody: Means that children live with one parent part of the time and the other parent part of the time. This time does not have to be equal. The parent who has care of the children at any given time is responsible for routine decisions regarding the children.
Primary Physical Custody: Means that the children live primarily with one parent.
Sole Custody: Means that the children live with one parent and that parent is responsible for making major decisions regarding the children.
Parents are encouraged to reach their own agreements regarding custody. When parents cannot agree, the judge must decide by considering all of the following factors of the Michigan Child Custody Act.(MCL 722.23;MSA 25.312(3)(a) The love, affection and other emotional ties existing between the parties involved and the child. (b) The capacity and disposition of the parties involved to give the child love, affection and guidance and the continuation of the educating and raising of the child in its religion or creed, if any. (c) The capacity and disposition of the parties involved to provide the child with food, clothing, medical care and other remedial care recognized and permitted under the laws of this state in place of medical care, and other material needs. (d) The length of time the child has lived in a stable, satisfactory environment, and the desirability of maintaining continuity. (e) The permanence, as a family unit, of the existing or proposed custodial home or homes. (f) The moral fitness of the parties involved. (g) The mental and physical health of the parties involved. (h) The home, school and community record of the child. (i) The reasonable preference of the child, if the court considers the child to be of sufficient age to express preference. (j) The willingness and ability of each of the parents to facilitate and encourage a close and continuing parent-child relationship between the child and the other parent. (k) Domestic violence, regardless of whether the violence was directed against, or witnessed by the child. (l) Any other factor considered by the court to be of relevance to a particular child custody dispute.
| Contact: |
Jodie L Barrette - Friend of the Court
Phone: (906) 863-8981
Fax: (906) 863-2649
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839 10th Avenue
Menominee MI 49858
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7:30 a.m. CST - 4:30 p.m. CST
Caseworkers available after 4:00 p.m. CST by appointment only.
Clients are encouraged to make payments online at www.misdu.com, by mail to MISDU, P.O. Box 30351, Lansing, MI 48909 or at www.govpaynow.com using pay location 9154.
Cash payments and correspondence/forms can be enclosed in an envelope and placed in a secure box in the Courthouse vestibule. |
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