Karp & Iancu, S.C.

Getting a divorce can be one of the most difficult life changes, and the choices you make directly affect your future financial and emotional happiness. Protecting your rights and ensuring you get a fair settlement is critical. Our Appleton divorce attorney will help you through this process with our professionalism, experience, and compassion. In Wisconsin, every family law case regarding a family’s minor children must involve a formal child custody or placement order via legal procedure. It is not just parents who can seek modifications to custody or placement orders. Grandparents, other relatives, and even someone who does not have legal rights to the child can petition the court for a custody or placement modification. However, the most common cases involve one or both parents. Our child custody attorney can explain the options for changing custody or placement orders based on the specifics of your case, but here is some general information about what it usually takes to modify these orders. If your original custody or placement order is less than two years old, you must prove that the current arrangements are imminently harmful or dangerous to your child to change them (though there are some other limited exceptions). If your original order has been in effect for more than two years, you must prove that there has been a substantial change of circumstances since the time of your original order. In both cases, you must prove that modifying your custody or placement order is in your child’s best interests. Our Milwaukee child custody attorney will help you understand these requirements if you have questions about a case. Let us help you get your life back on track.