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If a child doesn't want to live with a parent, it might be a safety issue. If your child is old enough, ask what is happening there that makes him or her not want to go. For small children, ask them to draw a picture of life at Daddy's house. A professional counselor and lawyers might need to be involved.

In Delaware, parents may share physical custody of their child, called joint custody. In these cases, both parents must work together to make decisions about the child's schooling, church attendance, medical care and other legal details. In other cases, the court may grant one parent sole custody of their child.

At What Age Can Teenagers or Other Children Refuse Visitation? Children who are considered legal adults (age 18 in most states) may always refuse to spend time with a parent. Technically, any child who is not yet a legal adult isn't allowed to refuse visitation.

Under Delaware law, whether parents have joint legal custody or one parent has sole legal custody of a child, each parent has the right to receive, when requested from the other parent, all material information concerning the child's progress in school, medical treatment, school activities and conferences, religious ...

The award of sole legal custody will likely only occur when the non-custodial parent has issues with substance abuse, mental illness, domestic abuse or some other extraordinary circumstance. And, specifically in Delaware, the court will usually prefer to have both parents involved in making decisions for the child.

Under Delaware law, judges may not grant grandparents (or any other nonparents) the right to visit a child over the objection of either parent, unless: the objecting parent has abused or neglected the child, or.