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Prohibit court house assign custody of minor of deployed soldiers or claimed them unfit because multiple duty station

Created by J.A. on April 01, 2013

The Servicemember civil relief act must cover child custody cases. Soldiers should not be suit for custody cases while they are or about to be deployed. There is nothing that can protect the service members from legal action regarding custody issues while they are deployed. There are multiple cases were the custodian or other family member has taken advantage of a service member being overseas to gain full custody of a child. Many times the service member is unaware of any custody suit 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. Courts should not find soldiers unfit because of the multiple movements of duty stations that comes part of mandatory orders.

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