What are the common factors that a judge considers when determining the best interest of a child during custody court proceedings? At a high level, the factors can be broken up into categories including “bad factors” ( issues with a parent that could be damaging to the child in some way) and the ability of a parent to meet a child’s physical and emotional needs. Watch to get a closer look at these factors in determining a child’s best interest by an experienced custody lawyer.
Mark Scroggins 0:06
Hey folks, Mark Scroggins with Scroggins Law Group back here to answer a bunch of q&a that we get from a lot of people aside from just in the reclamation transformation. So one thing here comes to disclaimer, anything that I answer in response to these questions, because it’s not create an attorney-client relationship between me and anybody out there, or SLG, collectively, that’s Scroggins Law Group, and anybody out there either. These are merely being answers to questions that are things you need to know, before you go in and talk to a lawyer about whatever family law issue you have. Okay, so with that, let’s get started on our questions today.
So one of the questions I’ve got here, folks is, “What are some factors that determine the best interest of a child?” Wow, I can’t answer all of that in a little q&a session. So I’m going to just say, look at the good facts and the bad facts, okay, of the case; is somebody have a drug problem, or an alcohol problem, or a gambling problem, or a sex problem or shopping problem that goes along with a spending problem? So those are what I call bad facts.
Does someone have the financial means to take care of the physical needs of a child? Does someone have the time to take care of the physical needs of their child, combine those with meeting the emotional and mental needs of the child? Okay. So as you can see, there are about 50 questions that can be derived from those things that I just mentioned, do you have an answer to them? Great. You need to discuss those with your attorney, and what he or she is going to ask you at a temporary order hearing or at a final trial. And can you address those in a mediation, you better be able to or else things aren’t going to go very well. So once again, what do we always say? Listen to your lawyer.
