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American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry

If you need assistance handling any serious or unusually severe problems your child or children might experience as a result of the trauma of divorce or child custody issues, you may find some useful information on the AACAP (American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry) website at (http://www.aacap.org).  The AACAP, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, was established in 1953.  Its members research, evaluate, diagnose, and treat psychiatric disorders and pride themselves on giving direction to and responding quickly to new developments in addressing the health care needs of children and their families.

Superior Court of Arizona Family Court information

If you need information on the Superior Court, Justice Courts, Adult and Juvenile Probation Departments or information on the court programs and services, you may find this website very helpful.  Addresses and telephone numbers for all of the Superior Courts in Maricopa County are provided.  If you are in the midst of a family court proceeding involving divorce, child custody, child support, paternity, parenting time, spousal maintenance or alimony, grandparent’s rights, or legal separation, modification, or enforcement, you may view your case history, the court calendar, a list of lawyers and mediators, and even biographical information on your judge at this website.

Arizona Supreme Court

If you are interested in reviewing rulings or pending rules relating to your divorce, child custody, child support, paternity, parenting time, spousal maintenance or alimony, grandparent’s rights, legal separation, modification, enforcement, or any number of other family law matters, this website contains recent rulings from the Supreme Court relating to rules, a list of recent amendments to the rules, and a page on which pending rule change petitions may be viewed and new rule petitions and comments may be electronically filed.  

Clerk of the Superior Court of Maricopa County

This website contains a wealth of information about such topics as turning in an address change in a child support case, child support enforcement, child support modification, automated payments, orders of assignment, and wage assignments.  Addresses and telephone numbers to contact for questions that aren’t answered online are provided along with court hours and holiday schedules. 

Arizona State Legislature

This is a good website to track pending legislation, find contact information for individual legislators, or to stay up-to-date on current issues. This is the website to check if you are interested in researching the Arizona Revised Statues on such issues as enforcement of premarital agreements, separate property or property acquired during marriage, dissolution or divorce, annulment, establishing paternity, custody, parenting time, or child support, or obtaining a legal separation.  If you are contemplating a divorce, A.R.S § 25, Chapter 3, covers such issues as temporary orders or preliminary injunctions, disposition of property, child support, payment of maintenance, restoration of maiden name, and modification and termination of provisions for maintenance and support.  A.R.S § 25, Chapter 4 contains the statutes regarding jurisdiction, the best interests of a child, sole and joint custody, parenting plans, child support, temporary orders, rights of noncustodial parent, visitation rights of grandparents, modification of a custody decree, and custody by a nonparent.  Statutes regarding child support enforcement, overpayment of child support, child support arrearages, and more are found in A.R.S § 25, Chapter 5.

LII The Legal Information Institute

The Legal Information Institute (LII) is a research and electronic publishing activity of the Cornell Law School.  Information on this website includes not only a comprehensive definition of Uniform Laws, but also contains locators for the Uniform Commercial Code, Uniform Probate Code, Uniform Code of Evidence, and Uniform Business and Finance Laws.  The Uniform Matrimonial and Family Laws Locator links to state laws covering such topics as the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Act, the Uniform Interstate Family Support Act, the Uniform Marriage and Divorce Act, and the Uniform Premarital Agreement Act

http://www.law.cornell.edu/topics/child_custody.html

Overview of state and federal child custody laws