What Actually Has to Happen for the Father to Be Granted Sole Custody?

Question by Big Sky 23: What actually has to happen for the father to be granted sole custody?
I know, legally, the decision is made in the best interests of the child, and the either parent must be demonstrated as an unfit caregiver for that right to be removed, else joint custody is awarded, blah blah.

But practically, what has to happen to the mother for sole custody to be granted to the father? Felony? Crack addiction? Mental illness? Unemployed? Incarceration?

It just seems from stories I’ve heard that the practical court default is sole custody to the mother, where the father must prove the mother an “unfit parent” in order to secure any other arrangement.

Anyone with any personal experience of the father receiving sole custody of his child? What happened to the mother?

Best answer:

Answer by americanfreeman
Well it is the courts decision. You mention a lot of possible reasons and I will tell you that you will have to prove them.

Courts don’t normally like accusation with no proof.

Has she actually been arrest for drugs?
Do you have pictures of her doing crack?
Mental illness is not a reason for custody change unless it is extreme. Neither is unemployment.
Fathers normally are not given sole custody unless the mother is in jail, in rehab, a proven prositute, or similar issues.

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