Divorced military service members who are on active duty and/or stationed overseas often need an attorney to protect their parental rights. It is important to ensure that you will still have custody or visitation rights when you return home.
Helping Military Members With Custody Cases In Connecticut
At the Bruce A. Chamberlain Law Office, we represent military members in divorce and other family law matters. You have made sacrifices to serve your country, and we want to make sure that your relationship with your children does not suffer because of those sacrifices.
As a child custody and military families lawyer, attorney Bruce A. Chamberlain understands the importance of keeping parents involved in their children's lives.
Under the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act, members on active duty have the right to stay divorce and child custody proceedings while they are stationed out of state or overseas. This allows military members to protect their rights in child custody, visitation and child support cases.
An experienced military divorce lawyer can help you obtain fair custody and visitation rights. If the primary parent is a soldier, he or she can take the child to an accompanied duty station if deployed. If the parent is sent on an unaccompanied tour, the child may be sent to live with the other parent during the deployment. In some cases, this may not be the best situation for the child. We can argue for you to transfer your parenting time to a relative while you are deployed if that is better for your child.
If you are an unmarried father who is in the military, we can represent you in paternity and fathers' rights cases. Your rights to your child cannot begin until you legally establish paternity.
Contact A Waterford Military Divorce Lawyer
To make an appointment, please call our New London County office at (860) 440-2846 or contact us online.
