I went thru the same kind of thing. I filed for divorce and when I did my soon to be ex decided he wanted 50/50 now to my knowledge the new laws for the parenting plan is you both automatically get 50/50 custody unless you can prove him to be an unfit parent. I have two little girls that I have always been the primary caretaker and I did not have a choice but to let him have 50/50 custody. I know the only reason why he wanted 50/50 is so that he would not have to pay as much child support. All the courts did when they chaged the rules was to give all the men out there a way not to have to pay child support. I have been thinking about this alot and wish I knew how to go about changing the new law. Luckily for me I had been married more than 10 years and can get alimnony which he is not willing to do so there for in November I will be going to court to fight for it. I wanted to fight for the 50/50 also but my lawyer basically said that you have to pay to have someone come out and evaluate every one and then he can still get 50/50 so you just paid all that money out for nothing because unless they find he is a threat to the kids he will still get 50/50 custody. I hope this helps you but if you want any other info you can email me at kmargarido@hotmail.com.
The 50/50 thing gets me too.
I have full physical custody of my children, he has visitations.
But then my ex works sometime 16 hours a day 6 days a week......
I would still look into it it further.
Watch out for alimony...you have to claim that at the end of the year, just incase you didn't already know that. I didn't.
Are you living with someone? Not just a man but anyone? My first attorney said I couldn't file for alimony because I lived in a man's house??!! I didn't quite understand how where I lived effected things but I guess it does. Heck the man's house I lived in was in texas for 6 months and was just happy his house was being used