New Jersey Child Custody Attorneys To Help You Protect Your Time With Your Child

Children’s security and emotional support throughout the divorce process are critical. The separation of parents is a wrenching experience for children of any age. Careful planning and sensitivity regarding their development, education and relationships with both parents is essential. You can be sure that child custody and parenting time agreements are carefully developed with an experienced New Jersey child custody and divorce lawyer as your advocate.

At Cipriano Law Offices, P.C., in West Caldwell, we provide personalized and attentive service from day one.Our legal team understands how important your relationship with your child is to you. Child custody disputes can involve emotional responses and and a feeling of the loss of control over the circumstances. When facing divorce, it is important for you to understand the processes and details that surround New Jersey child custody and parenting time determinations.

We stand strong in negotiations or in the courtroom, when necessary, to help our clients obtain favorable solutions to child custody arrangements. Make the decision to find out how our experienced West Caldwell child custody and parenting time lawyers can fight to protect your interests in family court; call 973-852-3346 to request a confidential consultation.

How New Jersey Courts Determine Child Custody And Parenting Time, Including Legal Custody Issues

We will work to protect your parental rights, and we will assess your unique situation to craft legal and physical custody agreements that provide fairness and stability concerning family dynamics, work schedules and children’s activities and schooling.

New Jersey statutes regarding child custody are complex. New Jersey child custody and parenting time  law includes distinctions between joint legal custody and sole legal custody. These issues involve determining who will make the important decisions regarding raising the children. When one parent holds sole legal custody, the court orders may outline parenting time for the noncustodial parent for either unsupervised or supervised time with the child. Similarly, there are elements of the law that involve where the child will live, and how time will be divided through primary or shared residential custody arrangements.

It is important to work with a legal team that understands all of the nuances of the family law and New Jersey child custody statutes. Our lawyers have substantial experience across the spectrum of parenting time and child custody issues. The depth and breadth of our experience are important attributes of our family law and divorce services.

Child custody and parenting time is a delicate part of the family law case, and the best interests of the children are paramount. We can help you understand the differences between physical and legal custody and between sole and shared parenting-time agreements, as we fight to obtain the most favorable child custody order on your behalf..

Our family law attorneys create parenting-time plans that consider your desires and support the best interests of children while fostering strong family bonds. By working closely with you and providing personalized, tailored legal services, we can maximize the likelihood of achieving your child custody, visitation and parenting time-sharing goals.

What Happens If A Parent Relocates?

Relocation of a child, either outside a certain radius from your current address in New Jersey or outside the state, is a difficult decision for a parent. It is also an issue that arises frequently during or after a divorce. One parent may seek to move away with a child due to job demands or other reasons. The other parent may claim that the move is only for the convenience of the relocating parent, designed to adversely impact the parenting rights of the objecting parent; or the move will not serve the best interests of the child in some other way.

We will fight hard to ensure that our clients do not lose precious time with their children in the signed child custody order. We protect the rights of our client, as well as the best interests of their children.

Full-Service Child Custody And Parenting Time Attorneys In West Caldwell

We can often come to satisfactory parenting agreements in the process of mediation, and we also assist clients in agreement modifications. Our founding lawyer, Melissa Cipriano, is a skilled parenting coordinator who frequently smooths the communication between parents as objective third-party neutrals to facilitate appropriate child custody and parenting time agreements. This experience is valuable for clients of our firm; the depth and breadth of our knowledge of custody, visitation and parenting issues in New Jersey allows us to anticipate the issues and provide real-world solutions.

Founding attorney Melissa Cipriano, Esq., draws on her substantial experience as a litigator and mediator to effectively help others resolve disputes through arbitration. While out lawyers work with clients before arbitrators, Ms. Cipriano is a fair and unbiased family law arbitrator. A a third-party neutral arbitrator, she helps couples solve complex problems in family law arbitration.

When representing one of the spouses in contested child custody matters, our legal team serves as staunch advocates to protect the rights of our clients and serve the best interests of the children. When domestic violence is also an issue, our legal team is prepared to fight for clients in both domestic violence restraining order matters and child custody disputes.

Get Careful And Attentive Child Custody Representation

Our child custody and parenting time lawyers know how to prepare and present cases before judges throughout northern New Jersey. Based in West Caldwell, we frequently appear in courtrooms in Essex, Bergen, Passaic, and Union counties, as well as throughout the region. Schedule your appointment today by calling 973-852-3346 or emailing the firm.