If you ex-wife has the authority to make educational decisions pursuant to a court order, you would have to file a new court case seeking to modify that provision of the order. Modifications cases all have the same requirement which is a showing that there has there been a substantial change in... View More

Your question does not state whether there has been prior child support or custody court action in Virginia. If there has been, Virginia has continuing jurisdiction. If there has been no prior court action, Virginia will still be considered the child's home state under the Uniform Child... View More

Your best course of action is to schedule an appointment with a lawyer for a consultation as to the appropriate action. Do take your court order to the consultation, so the lawyer can review it's provisions

A court order should innumerate the rights and responsibilities of each parent. However, even if the court order doesn't address the non-custodial parents rights, S.C. Code Sec. 63-5-30 states that each parent, whether custodial or non-custodial,, has equal right to access to and right to... View More

Consult a lawyer in your area who handles family court cases.

A child born during a marriage is by law presumed to be the child of the husband's. Therefore your divorce case must include your boyfriend as well as your husband as parties so that your boyfriend's paternity can be legally established and the presumption that your husband is the father... View More

A child born out of wedlock is presumed to be the child of the mother, but the father's paternity has to be established in a family court case in order for him to assert his parental rights. A father whose parental rights have not been judicially established has no say concerning the child.... View More

An unwed father's paternity, and therefore his parental rights, has to be established by a family court order even if his name is on the birth certificate. Paternity will be the first issue that will need to be addressed in an initial child support, visitation or custody case. Paternity can be... View More

Your daughter can file for an order of protection through family court to ask the court to order him out of her house, to grant a restraining order, to grant her custody of her daughter and child support. The petition for an order of protection can be obtained from the family court clerk of... View More

The better approach would be to file a case in family court seeking return of your daughter and dismissal of child support action and naming grandmother and SCDSS as defendants

You only acquire legal custody if a final order is issued giving you legal custody. Your question doesn't state what if any court orders were issued or whether the child was born out of wedlock or born during a marriage which makes the question difficult to answer.

No, but you would have to file a family court case to have him declared the biological father in order to get his name on the birth certificate. A child born during a marriage is legally presumed to be the child of the husband, so you will also have to add your husband as a party to the case to... View More

The father may be willing to sign a consent to relinquish his parental rights in turn for the dismissal of his child support obligation. Alternatively, the grounds to terminate parental rights is if the father has failed to visit or support the child for six months, but the failure to visit or... View More

To modify the prior court order you need to be able to show that there has been a substantial change in circumstances that warrants changing custody. You will need a lawyer to help you do that.

A minor is always appointed a guardian ad litem in family court matter, but the minor can petition the court for appointment of a lawyer. If the petition is granted, the minor would have both a guardian ad litem and an attorney.

You could file for legal custody of the children through the family court in your county. Having court order custody of the children would allow you to do all that you listed in your question plus it would allow you to receive child support from the parents.

The Summons in a case merely informs you that you have thirty days from the date of service to submit a written Answer to the Complaint, which is the document that is attached to the Summons. The Complaint is the document that sets out the other party's allegations and requests for relief.... View More

Court orders are enforced through the contempt powers of the court. If a parent violates a court order you can file a motion called a Rule to Show Cause asking the court to hold the parent in contempt of court and thereby compel the parent to comply with the court's order. The court can find a... View More

Virginia has continuing jurisdiction because the custody order was issued there. You can register your custody order in family court in the county where you live and ask the court to take jurisdiction which would then allow you to file for a name change in that county. Having South Carolina take... View More

Guardianship of an incapacitated person can only be granted by the probate court in the county in which your father lives after petition, notice and hearing.