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Create a federal law to protect soldiers from been legally sued for child custody while they are on deployment status

Created by J.A. on April 28, 2013

Soldiers should not be sued for child custody cases while they are on or about to be deployed. The Servicemember civil relief act doesn’t address child custody cases. Leaving soldiers exposed to situations where the custodian or other family member has taken advantage of the service member being overseas to gain full custody of a child. Many times the service member is unaware of any custody case against him and since the legal standard is to assign the custody of the child to someone, it goes by default to whichever parent is present at the time of the hearing. The US DOD don't give legal representation and going home for court is upon command discretion. Courts should not find soldiers unfit because of the multiple movements of duty stations that comes part of mandatory orders.

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