Family Law Content

Name and Legal Identity

• Getting a certified copy of your birth certificate
• Changing a child's name
• Changing an adult's name

Paternity/Parentage

• Establishing paternity
• Challenging paternity

Custody & Visitation

• Understanding custody
• How to ask the court for custody or visitation
• Factors courts consider in determining joint custody
• Enforcing custody and visitation orders
• Modifying a custody or visitation order
• Grandparent visitation
• Family mediation and counseling

Child Support

• Child support overview
• Iowa Child Support Guidelines
• Modifying child support
• Enforcing and collecting child support

Parental Rights

• Parents' rights and responsibilities during kinship/foster case
• Terminating parental rights in Iowa
• Voluntary termination of parental rights for adoption

Foster Care & Adoption

• Becoming a foster parent
• Adoption in Iowa
• The adoption process in Iowa
• Birth parents and the adoption process
• Accessing adoption records

Emancipation

• Emancipation of a minor
• Options other than emancipation

Marriage

• Marriage in Iowa
• Premarital (prenuptial) agreements
• Common law marriage

Divorce

• Divorce in Iowa
• Spousal support
• Annulments