Oklahoma Fathers Rights
Temporary Orders Hearing: How To Get Prepared
Temporary orders are entered to determine, among other things, custody, visitation, and child support during the pendency of your case. Read more »How To Keep That Verbal Altercation From Costing You a Protective Order or Arrest
I don't think it's any big secret, when you're talking about the family court system, they're not favorable towards men in Oklahoma. Read more »What Happens if You Don’t Pay Child Support
If you don't pay, you're defying a court order, which is in fact a crime. It's also civilly actionable as contempt of court. Read more »Fathers Rights: The Rights of Visitation for Deployed Services Members
The court should not be holding the fact that you were a deployed service member against you as far as being allowed visitation and when you were allowed visitation. Read more »Unmarried Fathers: What You Should Do if Your Baby Mama Takes the Kids Out of State
If you have visitation and she's disappeared, you need to get a lawyer immediately and you need to have them pursue filing, at the very minimum, a motion to enforce. Read more »Five Things You Should Never Say to Your Ex
Keep your mouth shut. If you have a reason to think you might actually be looking at a criminal problem, talk to a lawyer about it. Read more »Fathers Rights: Third Parties Interfering With Visitation
Obviously, with the mother, your remedies are going to be the motion to enforce and contempt of court citation. Read more »What Is Considered Harassment?
The course of conduct must be such as would cause a reasonable person to suffer substantial emotional distress, and must actually cause substantial emotional distress to that person. Read more »What Is Considered Stalking?
Section 60.1, Subsection 9, defines stalking as the willful, malicious, and repeated following or harassment of a person by an adult, an emancipated minor, a minor 13 years of age or older in a manner that would cause a reasonable person to feel frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested, and actually causes the person being followed or harassed to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, threatened, harassed or molested. Read more »What Is Domestic Abuse?
Title 22 section 60.1, contains the definitions for a lot of terms under the protective order statutes for Oklahoma. Read more »Fathers Rights: Is the Tax Refund Divisible?
Both parties are getting divorced, the taxes are from the prior year and you're getting a tax refund. Is it a divisible property? Read more »Fathers Right: Victim of Domestic Violence
My advice is if you can get out of the situation safely and you are in immediate danger, get out of the situation. Read more »Fathers Rights: The Cops Violated My Rights
If you believe the police violated your rights during the course of an arrest or a citation, a couple of things to know. Read more »How To Deal With a SH*T Talking Mom
If you are in the midst of litigation for a divorce, that behavior typically is considered to violate the automatic temporary injunction Read more »These Things Will Get You Cited for Contempt of Court
Honor a visitation agreement, if she court-ordered visitation and you don't honor it, you could be looking at a citation for contempt. Read more »What To Do if Your Baby Momma Dies
If the mother of your child that you have had out of wedlock dies, it can create an interesting problem in Oklahoma. Read more »How to Deal With an Ex Who Badmouths You to the Kids
The main thing I would advise if badmouthing is going on is don't delay because it can escalate into parental alienation quickly. Read more »How to Deal with DHS
If you have reason to believe that child abuse or neglect has occurred involving your child, you are under a legal duty to report it to DHS. Read more »Guardianship: Defending Against It
The burden of proof in guardianship is going to be clear and convincing evidence, which is higher than your standard civil court standard of a preponderance. Read more »Guardianship: When It Can Help
Guardianships do have benefits that can help a parent who is struggling or who is looking down the barrel of a potential deprived situation. Read more »
