Both guardianship and custody describe legal relationships between an adult and a child. Custody refers to a child's biological parents, whereas guardianship would be given to a non-biological parent.

Christy Bieber has a JD from UCLA School of Law and began her career as a college instructor and textbook author. She has been writing full time for over a decade with a focus on making financial and ...

In divorced families, whose needs count for more: those of parents or those of children? When parents divorce, their child custody plans are supposed to place the “best interests of the child” first.

For most of American history, when parents separated, their kids almost always ended up living with just one of them. But recent studies have confirmed a new era: Joint physical custody, in which a ...

Apparent suicides following police detention have increased in the past year. The rise comes as part of broader concerns ...