Custody of child after death of parent

Are you planning on dying any time soon?

You could always see if you could have your husband adopt your daughter as his own. there might be some clause if you haven't been contact with her father for so long that you could do it with his consent or not.

I am not planning on dying anytime soon. My father recently had a heart attack and it scared me very much and started me thinking about my situation. I have sole custody of my daughter but I wanted to know what would happen to that custody in the event of my death. I want my custody transferred to my current husband if I were to die, but I don't know that it is even possible with child custody. I just needed an answer as to what I have to do to set up custody of her in the event that I die.

Hire a lawyer!

This is far too serious to do it on your own, you need to make sure there are no loopholes that can end up placing your child with a relative she doesn't even know.

Assuming your husband indeed wants to keep and raise your child in case of your death you need to have a document called "Joint Conservatorship" naming your husband as the other 'conservator' of your child, a Will & Testament does NOT work for this situations, for in the event of death of the parent with sole custody the court will attempt to place the child with the Surviving Biological parent, if the surviving biological parent doesn't want the child, the court will then attempt to place the child with the maternal grandparents giving the maternal side relatives preference, unless no one takes the child, then the court will go through the paternal side relatives. a will or a guardianship only allows you to oversee the wealfare of the child, but it does NOT give you possesion of the child. I had to hire a lawyer to the my child's custody papers and that's how I found out that a will is not what you need to ensure that your child ends up with the person of your choosing.