FamilyLife Blended® Minute

Deployment & Custody

with Ron Deal | February 25, 2020
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Unfortunately, that has happened to our military personnel, but it shouldn't happen anymore. There is now a law that prevents custody changes from occurring during deployment. But there are other things biological parents should think through: Registering your custody agreement in your current state and deciding how the stepparent should coordinate with the other household while you're deployed. FamilyLife Blended, together with The Military Ready Stepfamily, offers support to military families.

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  • About the Host

  • About the Guest

  • Unfortunately, that has happened to our military personnel, but it shouldn't happen anymore. There is now a law that prevents custody changes from occurring during deployment. But there are other things biological parents should think through: Registering your custody agreement in your current state and deciding how the stepparent should coordinate with the other household while you're deployed. FamilyLife Blended, together with The Military Ready Stepfamily, offers support to military families.

  • Ron Deal

    Ron L. Deal is one of the most widely read and viewed experts on blended families in the country. He is Director of FamilyLife Blended® for FamilyLife®, founder of Smart Stepfamilies™, and the author and Consulting Editor of the Smart Stepfamily Series of books including the bestselling Building Love Together in Blended Families: The 5 Love Languages® and Becoming Stepfamily Smart (with Dr. Gary Chapman), The Smart Stepfamily: 7 Steps to a Healthy Family, and Preparing to Blend. Ron is a licensed marriage and family therapist, popular conference speaker, and host of the FamilyLife Blended podcast. He and his wife, Nan, have three sons and live in Little Rock, Arkansas. Learn more at FamilyLife.com/blended.

Can you imagine-being deployed in a foreign country and losing your children back home?