North Dakota Child Custody Factors
- Love, affection, and other emotional ties existing between the parents and child.
- Capacity and disposition of the parents to give the child love, affection, and guidance and to continue the education of the child.
- Disposition of the parents to provide the child with food, clothing, medical care, or other remedial care in lieu of medical care, and other material needs.
- Length of time the child has lived in a stable satisfactory environment and the desirability of maintaining continuity.
- Permanence, as a family unit, of the existing or proposed custodial home.
- Moral fitness of the parents.
- Mental and physical health of the parents.
- Home, school, and community record of the child.
- Reasonable preference of the child, if the court deems the child to be of sufficient intelligence, understanding, and experience to express a preference.
- Evidence of domestic violence.
- Interaction and interrelationship, or the potential for interaction and interrelationship, of the child with any person who resides in, is present, or frequents the household of a parent and who may significantly affect the child’s best interests. The court shall consider that person’s history of inflicting, or tendency to inflict, physical harm, bodily injury, assault, or the fear of physical harm, bodily injury, or assault, on other persons.
- False allegations, not made in good faith, by one parent against the other, of harm to a child.
- Any other factors considered by the court to be relevant to a particular child custody dispute.
North Dakota Century Code Sec. 14-09-06.2
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Comments
Comment from Isaiah
Time: May 25, 2008, 7:58 pm
Hi,
my name is Isaiah and I am from Fargo, ND…my question is like other men with the word visitation..I divorced my ex 3 years ago and at that time thought we could divorce on good terms…she told me she would never take the kids away from me, and I took all the debt and so forth while she walked away with no bills, a paid off car, and other things…Since this time I have had 1 holiday with the kids, no summer visitation, and we have joint custody..she moved and remarried quickly and make good money between the two and now am paying 836 + insurance, and backpay that she said the kids needed…My whole thing is I have not had the time with my kids as she cancels visits, no summer time that I am supposed to have, and it keeps happening. what can I do to get my rights to be with my kids…she even says that I am a great dad but makes excuses that she has the kids with schedules and so forth…help!
Comment from papa
Time: May 25, 2008, 11:30 pm
Isaiah, what you can do is advocate mediation with the mother….. if she doesn’t agree to that… or it doesn’t work…… you’ll have to take her to court……. there’s a lot of info on this site about how to prepare for that situation….
papa d
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