Timeline for Does Judaism have a default rule about child custody in the case of divorce?
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| Aug 2, 2019 at 21:45 | comment | added | LN6595 | In practice, once custody is assigned to the mother it is not reassigned to the father on the basis of the child’s age. Changes in custody are relatively rare and always serious. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 0:19 | comment | added | msh210♦ | (re your comment) Interesting. Thanks for following up. Maybe you should edit the info into the answer post. | |
| Dec 1, 2016 at 0:16 | comment | added | Shalom | @msh210 Rabbi Reiss has a yutorah mp3 on child custody. Basically it's unclear from Rambam's language whether they stay with mom or switch at age six, and there are opinions both ways; it appears we tend to pasken the latter -- the thinking is that the lad will then learn better from dad -- at least that's the overall rule of thumb, all else being equal. | |
| Jun 21, 2013 at 9:50 | comment | added | Shalom | @msh210, huh I hadn't thought about that, thanks. I'd have to ask a contemporary dayan; my sense is in the past you'd hand the kid off to 1 parent and that parent was in charge from then on out. (Suppose mom stays in Israel with baby boy and dad moves to California and remarries; it would seem cruel that suddenly on his seventh birthday she has to ship him off to California for good.) In today's world of joint custody, visitation and whatnot, I don't know. But my inclination is "for the rest of childhood." | |
| Jun 20, 2013 at 6:38 | comment | added | msh210♦ | Boys aged six or under at the divorce go to their mother for the rest of their childhood, or until age seven? | |
| Jun 19, 2013 at 22:17 | history | answered | Shalom | CC BY-SA 3.0 |