Archives: Fathers’ Rights

Once again, there are efforts to require Wisconsin family courts to order equal physical placement in every – or virtually every – case.

On March 1, 2018, Loeb & Herman will debut Wisconsin Family Law Case Finder, a subscription based legal research service specifically designed for family law attorneys.

There are three primary factors affecting children in divorce situations.

Two questions regarding removal were addressed by the District 2 Court of Appeals in Shulka v. Sikraji. It’s a handy case for family-law attorneys with cases where a client wants to move, but would forgo it if it means losing primary placement.

In a recent opinion the District 4 Court of Appeals misapplied Wisconsin statutes regarding the meaning of joint custody. Fortunately, it was an unpublished decision. Unfortunately, it is an authored opinion, so it can be cited for its persuasive value.

In Wisconsin, at least, “legal custody” involves only decision making about six areas, few of which are ever in dispute. The determination of where the children live is called “physical placement.” In most cases, that is the battlefield.

Fathers have neither the right nor the ability to restrict a pregnant woman from her constitutionally protected liberty.

Has shared time truly become the norm? Is it mandatory? Most importantly, is it a good thing?

The Wisconsin Court of Appeals intermittently tells us that it is primarily an error-correcting court. Recently, however, the court couldn’t resist the temptation to depart from that primary role to make a little new law, in Randy A.J. v. Norma I.J.,

A recent District II Court of Appeals case, recommended for publication, addressed the difficult issue of biological versus psychological parentage. In an interesting decision involving what the court of appeals called “an unusual factual situation scenario”, the court upheld the result reached by the trial court, but for entirely different reasons.