COVID-19 and Divorce: Child Custody When Parents Live in Different States
With the continuing COVID-19 pandemic, many families face the dilemma of how to obtain custody of a child — seeking to stay indefinitely in a different state from the other parent, or looking to relocate to a state they consider to be safer for the child. The predicament of child custody when parents live in different states has therefore been at the forefront of litigation since the COVID-19 pandemic first began spreading in early 2020.