What impact does a parents new spouse, live-in companion, or other person sharing the home have on a designation of primary residential parent?
Before a divorce is granted, most courts severely frown upon children being exposed to such persons, under any circumstances. In a post-divorce situation, the court must find a material change of circumstances to change primary residential parent. A remarriage is not necessarily a change of circumstances, but it can be if the child is affected. In those situations where another person will come in contact with or influence the child by reason of a remarriage or similar changes in the child’s or parent’s living situation, and there is a basis for concern about the stability of the child’s environment, the mental condition and character of that other person can become relevant in a determination of primary residential parent designation or modification proceeding.
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