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Custody

Updated: 
November 15, 2023

My child’s other parent is back from deployment. What happens to our temporary custody agreement?

If you entered into a temporary custody agreement because of the other parent’s deployment, there are a few things that could happen.  If your agreement specified a date that it would end, then it will end on that date. If your agreement didn’t specify a date, then you and the other parent can sign an agreement to end (“terminate”) the temporary arrangement any time after the deploying parent gets back.  If you filed your temporary custody agreement with the court, then you need to file your termination agreement in the same court within a reasonable time after it’s signed.

If none of those situations apply to you, by law your agreement will end 60 days after the date the deploying parent let you know that s/he returned from deployment.1 

1 KRS § 403A.401

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