Checklists, Budgets & Forms

Custody Questions

When considering how Virginia Code Section 20-124.3 applies to your situation, asking yourself questions like these should help:

1. Give the names, addresses, phone numbers, age, relationship of all people who help you and your child with physical needs, transportation, daycare, etc. and emotional support and advice (people who you consider a part of your support group):

2. What are your work days and hours?

3. What time do you leave home to go to work and what time do you get back home?

4. Does your child have any special health needs?

5. Which parent has better skills in dealing with those health needs and why?

6. Name the child’s doctors and dentists.

7. Have you ever met the child’s doctors or taken the child to the doctor for regular checkups or during illness?

8. Do you believe the child receives adequate health care and routine checkups?

9. Who mostly takes the child to the doctors and dentists?

10. Do you claim that the physical health of a parent or child is an issue in regard to custody?

11. Do you or your spouse take any medication or have any health or addiction problem?

12. Are either you or your spouse under the care of doctors, counselors,etc.?

13. What is the level of care by you (scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being excellent and 5 being poor/neglected)?

14. What is the level of care by your spouse (scale of 1 to 5 with 1 being excellent and 5 being poor/neglected)?

15. Who has the better relationship with the child and why?

16. What is the child’s favorite food?

17. What time does the child get up and go to bed?

18. Who are the child’s best friends?

19. What are the child’s favorite activities?

20. What do you feed your child on a typical day?

21. How often do you take your child to a fast food restaurant?

22. What is the child’s clothing sizes (shirt, pants, hat,etc)?

23. What are the names of your child’s doctors, dentist, etc.?

24. What are the names of your child’s teachers?

25. What are the child’s best and worst subjects in school?

26. What is your educational level? Your spouse’s?

27. Who helps with homework?

28. What is the name of your child’s backup babysitter/daycare provider for you? For spouse?

29. What is your role with your child now and in the future?

30. What is your spouse’s role with your child now and in the future?

31. How often do you communicate with the other parent?

32. What is the communication with the other parent like?