I am a devout Muslim and I want both a formal divorce and a Faskh from her, or annulment. She has cheated on me and disgraced both of our families. I also want full custody of my daughter and son, I do not want them around the man she is now seeing. Can I get the annulment at the same time as I get divorced, and can I prohibit her from taking my children around another man?

My daughter’s father and I have shared legal custody. I am Iranian and practice Islam, he is from the U.S. and is a devout catholic. Our religious differences are part of the reason the marriage failed. When my daughter was born I agreed she could be raised Catholic. She is 15 now and wants to convert to Islam and wants to join my mosque. Her father is adamantly opposed to this and says he will take me to court and sue for full custody of her if I allow her to practice Islam or attend mosque. How do I change the custody order so that I have legal custody and the authority to let me daughter change her religion? Is she old enough that her wishes will be considered? Is the fact that she is 15 and is making her own decision to convert to Islam enough to change legal custody?

My wife and I separated and I moved from where we lived in Seattle to Los Angeles. I’ve been here 2 months now and I want to finalize a divorce. My wife and I are on good terms and we already divided our property and other assets. How long do I have to live in California before I can file for uncontested divorce here? I’m from Iran and have dual citizenship in Iran and the U.S., does that affect the divorce in any way? Do I need a lawyer to file? If I do, I would prefer to work with an Iranian lawyer.

I am engaged to be married and want to know whether a prenuptial agreement can protect me from community property laws. After I marry, my spouse and I will live in Sacramento, and I know California abides by community property law. I have more property than my fiancée and I want to invest in additional rental properties. I want those properties to remain with me if we were to divorce, but what I’ve read about community property says if I buy properties while married, my wife has a 50% interest. Are prenuptials legal in California and can I use one to protect future properties I might buy? Also, I am a native Farsi speaker and want a lawyer who speaks Farsi to represent me if I do need a lawyer.

I am Iranian and although I now live with my wife in San Diego, I still have many family and friends in Iran. A good friend’s daughter is pregnant and very young and unmarried. It is shameful for her to be in this state given my friend’s religion and the culture in his community. My friend knows my wife and I have been trying to have a child for years and he has offered for us to adopt the baby. His daughter is agreeable. What do my wife and I need to do to adopt the baby and get it here to the U.S.? Do we need a lawyer to do this or do we work through some sort of agency? Will the child automatically be a U.S. citizen once we adopt?

For 2 years my wife and I have been fostering twin boys, age 3 through the Clark County Child Protective Services here in Las Vegas and have always planned on adopting them. The boys’ biological father has not been around the entire time the twins have been with us. We were scheduled to finalize the adoption next month and the father has reappeared and is saying he wants his kids back. He will not consent to the adoption. What chance does he have to fight the adoption if he’s never been a father to the boys, and we are the only family they’ve ever known? The social worker is telling us we may now have to go to a trial to terminate his parental rights. Do we need our own lawyer for that trial?

After 3 years of marriage my wife and I want to divorce. We’ve agreed on all issues, including custody of our daughter, and we are not fighting over anything. We’d like to file for uncontested divorce in Washington, D.C. and get the divorce as soon as possible and without spending alot on legal fees. The clerk at the courthouse told us we needed to file a written agreement stating what we’ve agreed to and what the custody schedule will be for our daughter. Do we have to have a written agreement if we both know what we’ve agreed to and don’t think we need one? Can we get the uncontested divorce without it? If we do need something in writing, can we do it ourselves or do we need a lawyer? We are both Iranian and would prefer an Iranian lawyer if one is necessary.

My ex and I have a 13 y/o daughter and we share custody of her. She was born with a large birthmark on her left cheek and now that she’s getting older, she is embarrassed by it and wants to have it removed. Her mother is from Iran and is Muslim, and she refuses to let our daughter have any procedure to remove the mark because she says it’s ‘plastic surgery’ and against her religion. My daughter is suffering because her mother is being unreasonable and I want to charge her mother with child abuse. I’ve read that withholding necessary medical care is a form of child abuse under Florida law. Both my daughter and I feel this procedure is necessary for her emotional well-being and her doctor agrees. If the mother is found guilty of child abuse, does that give my daughter and me the right to get her the surgery?

I need a lawyer to fight my child abuse charge against the Georgia child protective services. They took my 3 kids away 6 months ago because someone called and reported me for child abuse due to neglecting them. At the time I was struggling with my bipolar disorder and the doctors couldn’t get my medications right. I am back on track now and doing good, but no matter what I do or what information I give them, child protective services keeps telling me I’m not ready to have my kids back. My doctor will vouch for me that I am. How do I fight this child abuse case and get my children back home with me? I can prove I’m taking all my medications now as my doctor tells me to.

We got married in Chicago 3 months ago and now I want a divorce. My husband became a different person after the wedding and I feel I don’t know him at all. I know we haven’t been married very long, but I did give up a very good career in Washington, D.C. to move here to live with him and get married. I can’t get the same kind of job here in Chicago as I had in D.C., and it’s too late to get my old job back. How long do you have to stay married to be eligible for alimony? I need financial help until I can find a new job and maybe even longer if I can’t find work that pays me an amount similar to what I earned before.

My husband and I are separating amicably. We want to jointly file for an uncontested divorce in Chicago where we live so that he can move with our older daughter to Texas as quickly as possible. Our daughter is very gifted and has a scholarship to an art school there. Our younger son is going to continue to live in Chicago with me. My husband earns a lot more than me but we’ve agreed that he won’t pay child support because we’re each going to be raising one of our kids and he’s going to pay all transportation costs for them to go back and forth between Chicago and Texas for visits. I know child support is mandatory in Chicago but under these circumstances, can we waive it in our uncontested divorce proceeding? Would we need to tell a judge why my husband isn’t paying child support? Also, do we need to put the agreement about the transportation costs in writing?

Before we married, my husband made me sign a prenup saying I wouldn’t ever claim alimony if we divorced. We’ve been married 6 years now and I have a very good job and am earning far more than my husband at this point. He now wants to go back and change the prenup to state that he has the right to alimony if we were to divorce. He says if I won’t agree to this change, he will take our son and move away with him and I won’t see him. I am afraid about this because he has been my son’s primary caretaker due to the amount of hours I work. Can my husband force me to change the prenuptial agreement? Do I have any rights if he were to move with my son and keep him from me?

My fiance and I have dated on and off for over 5 years. We break up because she can’t be faithful. I do love her and we’ve been going to counseling which seems to help. I want to marry her but I don’t want to take the risk of losing half of my property and income if she cheats on me again. I’m told that adultery in Baltimore doesn’t help you ‘win’ the whole case, the other person could still get half. Can I write into a prenup that if she cheats on me she waives her right to half the property and alimony? Is that legal?

I’m under a child support order to pay my ex $600 every month for my 2 kids with her. She doesn’t like my new girlfriend and for the last 3 months hasn’t let me see my kids. I told her I’m not paying child support until she lets me see them like the visitation order says I should. She’s threatened to file contempt papers against me because she says her lawyer told her child support and visitation are two separate issues. Do I have to pay support if she’s withholding visitation from me? Can I file contempt on her for disobeying our visitation order and if I can, is it better to get a lawyer to do it?

I was convicted of felony drug possession and distribution when I was 19 years old. I served my sentence and had a perfect record on probation. I’m now 34 years old, married, and have had no other trouble with the law whatsoever. My wife and I want to adopt a child but the worker at the Las Vegas adoption agency we met with said my felony conviction might bar me from adopting in Nevada. Is that true? Is there any way I can get the conviction off my record since it’s been so long and I have had no other convictions or legal problem at all? Could the same lawyer help me with both the adoption and clearing my record?

My wife and I came to the U.S. 10 years ago and are now permanent residents, but not citizens. I am considering divorce and want to know what my rights are. I am especially worried about what my custody rights are as a dad because we have 2 daughters and my wife has threatened in the past if I divorce her she will not let me see them. What is the divorce process for residents who are not US citizens? Does a father have the same rights as a mother if she’s been the primary caregiver for the children? I would like to work with an Iranian lawyer who understands the divorce process in both the U.S. and Iran if I do have to pursue a divorce there.

My ex-husband and I have 2 daughters, and one has special needs. He wants shared custody of both girls. He’s a good dad, and I have no problem sharing equal time with him for our older daughter. However, our special needs daughter requires a lot of time and attention, and he has never been able to properly care for her on his own, partly because he won’t acknowledge she has disabilities. We are going to court soon for custody, and I want to know whether a judge could issue two different custody arrangements for our girls – shared custody of our older daughter and primary custody of our younger child to me? Is this the type of situation where it would help to have a lawyer represent me? So far I’ve been doing it on my own.

My spouse and I live in Dallas and own several properties in and around the Dallas area, including a restaurant that we own jointly. Our marriage has been bad for several years now and we are talking about divorce, which he says he doesn’t want. He claims if I move forward with a divorce, he’ll force the sale of all of our properties, including our restaurant. Running the restaurant is how I earn my living and I don’t want to sell it. If we did go to court for divorce, how would a judge divide our property? Can the judge give some of the properties to me, like the restaurant, and some to him without ordering that any of them be sold? Can the restaurant be put solely in my name in the divorce so that he cannot continue to work in it?

I would like to divorce my Iranian wife. She has assets in Tehran, Iran. What steps can I take to include those assets as part of the divorce?

Ten years of marriage and two kids and my wife and I are divorcing. We want to do this amicably and agree to file for uncontested divorce. The kids will stay mostly with her and visit with me. I know under Texas law I have to pay child support and I am willing to do so but we don’t know how to determine how much. If we file the uncontested divorce, will a judge figure out at our divorce hearing how much child support I am supposed to pay? Or can my wife and I just determine an amount we both agree to?

Both my husband and I are dual citizens of Iran and U.S. and I think I may want a prenuptial agreement before marrying. My family owns several large parcels of land in Iran and they want to make sure that should something happen between my husband and I, he has no interest in that property and cannot do anything to take it away from the family. If he is willing to sign a prenup relinquishing any rights to that property, will it be enforceable in Iran if he tries to take some interest in the property as marital property? What if he were to file a divorce first in Iran if our marriage doesn’t work out? Would the prenup carry over to that divorce and be valid there?