Mississippi Family Lawyer Blog
In my practice I have had the opportunity to assist numerous military service members with issues relating to divorce, paternity, child custody and visitation. Many of the issues these service members confront relate to custody and/or visitation problems occurring while the individual is on temporary duty or under deployment or mobilization orders (“deployed” or “deployment”). A soldier on deployment should be focused on his/her duties, not worried about whether he/she will be able to speak with the child during deployment or worried about what will happen with the child at the end of deployment. In light of these concerns, Mississippi has enacted legislation to protect the parental rights of its deployed service members.
This law, Miss. Code Ann. 93-5-34, was passed for the purpose of swiftly and efficiently resolving matters involving custody and visitation when a parent is deployed and to facilitate continued communication between parents and their minor children when a parent is deployed. This statute protects our deployed service members in the following ways:
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