How Can You Appeal a Child Custody Decision?

If you have no money, you can still fight for joint custody. I'm not kidding. It's not that hard. All you need is enough time and energy to know what the law is and how it applies to your situation (which is pretty easy), and then you can use the law to your advantage. For example, if your spouse uses the money they make from their job to pay for all of their expenses and yours, but pays nothing toward the cost of raising your children, then they are clearly treating you as an ATM machine rather than as a partner in parenting. You could file for divorce on this basis alone! Or maybe they're making more money than you do, but they're claiming that he or she has higher earning potential because of his or her education level. In this case, although it would be nice if people worked together instead of against each other in order to achieve a better life for everyone involved, we aren't talking about working together here—we're talking about equal contribution from ...