Pandemic Complicates Custody for Eight Million Children of Divorce

  • Texas Supreme Court steps in to protect parental visitation
  • New York justice warns families about exploiting health crisis
An empty kindergarten classroom at a closed school in Stamford, ConnecticutPhotographer: John Moore/Getty Images
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The mother keeps throwing New York City dinner parties, and the father worries their kids might contract Covid-19. What’s a divorced couple to do in the age of social distancing?

This one chose the time-honored route and went to court -- by phone, of course. In the emergency conference, the judge rebuked the mother but left the custody arrangement intact.