What types of challenges do fathers experience during custody cases?

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What types of challenges do fathers experience during custody cases?

The following case and example demonstrates the success story of a father who through sheer determination and child focus was able to achieve shared care for his children despite a number of obstacles.

This father was the primary income earner for the family while the mother and father were together. However, once the mother and father had separated, he did acknowledge that the mother had then cared for the children primarily. The father did argue that when the children were of schooling age they should transition to equal care between both mother and father.

He was ready, willing and able to change his work schedule to accommodate the children but the mother did oppose equal care citing issues of risk in the father’s care. These issues included (but were not limited to) alleged domestic violence towards her and the children during their relationship.