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Can my ex get full custody if he doesn’t have a job?

If you're asking if your ex can get full custody of the kids if he doesn't have a job, the answer is… probably not. There's a whole bunch of reasons why this is unlikely to happen—not least of which is that you'd be required to prove that your ex was unfit to be a parent in order to establish that he did not meet the needs of his children. But even if you could make that case, it wouldn't necessarily mean he would lose custody. You see, judges will look at several factors when deciding on custody cases: how much time does each parent spend with their children? What kind of relationship do they have with their children? Does one parent have more experience raising children than the other? And so on. So if your ex has always been a great dad and has always shown an interest in being involved in his kids' lives and helping them develop into happy adults, then chances are good that he'll still get custody unless there's something really egregious about his b...