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kdesai24
Dec 3, 2010, 05:28 PM
I'm currently filing for physical/legal custody so if anything should ever happen to me, my child wouldn't be sent into the system. I'm also preparing a Living Will to state who I am choosing my son to go to if I should pass.

cdad
Dec 3, 2010, 06:38 PM
Your son is not an item to be passed on in a will. If the child has a legal father and you were to pass they would be next in line.

excon
Dec 3, 2010, 06:50 PM
Hello k:

Yes, you'll have joint custody.. Your husband's in the joint, isn't he?

excon

Fr_Chuck
Dec 3, 2010, 09:25 PM
The parents of the child do not have to be married, for them to have joint custody, and getting married after birth does not automatically give any custody. Only a child custody order can give custody.

AK lawyer
Dec 4, 2010, 07:56 AM
Your son is not an item to be passed on in a will. If the child has a legal father and you were to pass they would be next in line.

"They"? You mean "he"?



Hello k:

Yes, you'll have joint custody.. Your husband's in the joint, isn't he?

excon

Cute.

cdad
Dec 4, 2010, 08:05 AM
"They"? You mean "he"?




Cute.

Yes they. The legal parent at the time of the custodial parent's passing. It's the correct use of the word.

They - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They)

AK lawyer
Dec 4, 2010, 03:45 PM
Yes they. The legal parent at the time of the custodial parent's passing. Its the correct use of the word.

They - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/They)

The Wiki article to which you link says this

"The "singular" they is the use of this pronoun, where they is used as a gender-neutral singular rather than plural pronoun. The correctness of this usage is disputed" (emphisis added). So why would you use a gender-neutral pronoun to stand for "father"? Is there any doubt as to the gender of a father? Or are you trying to be confusing?