For Legal Counsel Regarding Fathers' Rights or Grandparents' Rights
Contact a Knowledgeable McLean Family Law Attorney
When we speak of parental rights, we must take into account the importance of both a father and a mother in child development. In generations past, the "tender years doctrine" expressed common sentiment regarding the special importance of a mother in the life of a baby or very young child. Today, family law courts increasingly give equal or near-equal status to a father when determining child custody arrangements.
Fathers' Rights are Parental Rights
Even in the case of a newborn baby, a family law judge is not likely to allow discussion of such issues as breast feeding as a reason to keep a father from spending time regularly with his child. Whether you are mother or father, married or unmarried, you are strongly urged to consult promptly with a knowledgeable family law attorney to discuss questions regarding child custody, fathers' rights, and related family matters such as "grandparents' rights" when parents are divorced or separated.
Fathers' rights are essentially parents' rights. The law does not distinguish mothers and fathers when it comes to questions such as child custody and child support in divorce, separation or out-of-wedlock situations.
Grandparent Visitation, Guardianship and Other Questions
Grandparents do not typically have legal rights in the setting of any orders regarding children except in special circumstances such as when grandparents seek guardianship and parents do not agree. Discuss your grandparenting questions with a knowledgeable family law attorney who will tell you want you need to hear — not necessarily what you want to hear. Contact McLean, Virginia, lawyer John R. Powell for honest, practical and compassionate counsel and representation in family law matters pertaining to "fathers' rights" or "grandparents' rights."
