On a Thursday evening in April, at a date and time that had been determined by a family-court judge, Michael Lee Horrocks drove to his ex-wife’s house, in the eastern panhandle of West Virginia, to ...

UCCJEA, the Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction and Enforcement Act, was adopted by 49 states (except Massachusetts who still follows the prior order, the UCCJA) and Guam and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

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.

Halle Berry sought to restore her previous custody arrangement with ex-husband Olivier Martinez as their legal dispute over their 12-year-old son, Maceo, continued. The actress requested a return to ...