Can A Child Decide Which Parent To Live With? – Attorneybernie.com

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00:00:05 the problem is that we don’t want to give children too much leverage when they detect that their parents are at loggerheads this is an opportunity for them where they use usually powerless to try to exercise some kind of Leverage that’s not really good for a child now the law says in California that when a child is 14 that child can express a preference but that doesn’t mean to say the judge needs to follow what the child is requesting the judge needs to determine how well is this child is doing is this child making age

00:00:38 appropriate decisions is this trial getting involved in this divorce and shouldn’t be we don’t want to burden children with adult issues so the answer is no a child doesn’t really get to decide if the court thinks that this is a really difficult situation for the child the court will appoint an attorney for the child who will then tell the court this is what the child wants and this is what I think is in the Char’s best interest to help the judge come up with an appropriate custody plan