Joint custody

Well in this case there are several things to be concerned about. The first being your both in the military. You both will need to talk and work this out between you. If there is a possiabilty that either one or both of you could be deployable then you need to make arrangements as to what will be in the best interesrt of the child. My son and daughter inlwa just went though a divorce and he is in Korea and she was deployed to Iraqa and so her mother took the child for one year. The mother and father had joint custody and the father still had to pay child support so the mother sent the support to her mother as well as paying support as well although hers was not court ordered. This is what you have to look at. If one stays in the states then you will probary be ok but the one with the custody will be awarded child support.

With both of them being in the military you are REQUIRED to have a family care plan. This plan is in place for the reason of what will happen to the children if both parents are deployed or assigned to a duty where the children are not allowed to accompany them. People get dishonorably discharged from the military if they do not have a family care plan. Since they are going through a divorce, the military will require them to have a family care plan where all of these decisions are to be made.

They will have to decide amongst themselves where the children will primarily reside. The military won't do that for them. The other spouse will be responsible for child support, and there is no way around it. They should try and work these issues out on their own though before going to court.

Good points bllnvi and the military is very good about enforcing child support obligations.

The judge can give you joint custody if you both want it. As far as child support the judge is not going to allow the absent parent not to pay any child support just because he or she does not want to pay it. In the milatary I have seen the absent parent pay far more then the parents that are not in the service. This is going to be up to the court to dicide. Some of the factors in deciding child support are if the parents have joint custody and each parent has the child 50/50 of the time and what each parent makes.