My question involves a child custody case in the State of Washington.
The divorcing couple lives near the husband's family (to which I belong) and across the country from the wife's. The husband has decided to end the marriage and so the wife wishes to move to be near her own family. The husband wishes to stay put.
My concern is that the couple has set up a winner-take-all custody contest that is really a proxy war over where to live. While they would likely arrive at shared custody if location were not an issue, they can't do so without one of them giving up their preferred domicile. Consequently, the wife has a strong incentive to fight for sufficient primacy of custody to allow her to move. But it seems to me that to do so she is forced to convince the court that the husband isn't fit to be a custodial parent, and even malign the extended family to demonstrate that the child's interests are better served elsewhere.
That's my game theory analysis, at any rate. Is it based in a reasonable understanding of the law? Does anything in the law disrupt such an unnecessarily acrimonious outcome?
The divorcing couple lives near the husband's family (to which I belong) and across the country from the wife's. The husband has decided to end the marriage and so the wife wishes to move to be near her own family. The husband wishes to stay put.
My concern is that the couple has set up a winner-take-all custody contest that is really a proxy war over where to live. While they would likely arrive at shared custody if location were not an issue, they can't do so without one of them giving up their preferred domicile. Consequently, the wife has a strong incentive to fight for sufficient primacy of custody to allow her to move. But it seems to me that to do so she is forced to convince the court that the husband isn't fit to be a custodial parent, and even malign the extended family to demonstrate that the child's interests are better served elsewhere.
That's my game theory analysis, at any rate. Is it based in a reasonable understanding of the law? Does anything in the law disrupt such an unnecessarily acrimonious outcome?
Establishing an Order: How to Encourage Parents to Negotiate Their Custody Case
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