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Description: Tawas City, Michigan family law lawyers represented the parties in a divorce including child custody.

The parties are the biological parents of AJC, who was born in January 2015. The parties briefly dated, but they ended their relationship shortly after defendant became pregnant with AJC. Shortly thereafter, defendant moved from Michigan to Florida, where AJC was born. Following AJC's birth, the parties signed an affidavit of parentage (AOP) indicating that plaintiff was AJC's biological father. Approximately seven months after AJC was born, defendant returned to Michigan with AJC to care for defendant's ailing mother and, pursuant to plaintiff's request, explore the possibility of rekindling their relationship. The parties ultimately decided to remain apart, and defendant maintained custody of AJC. After a few years had passed, however, the parties were able to make arrangements without judicial involvement for plaintiff to visit AJC. Although plaintiff exercised few to no overnights with AJC during the first few years of her life,
he slowly increased his overnights as the years passed and, by 2023, he exercised overnights every weekend, every holiday, and every other week during the summer.

Arquette v. Carr, 370691 (Mich. App. Nov 26, 2024)

Outcome: Affirmed

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