AboutGeraldine Jensen Expertise Family law, divorce, child support, welfare, TANF, medical support orders
Experience Child support enforcement expert. Founded of ACES (Association for Children for Enforcement of Support, Inc.) the nation's largest child support advocacy organization. Now she is the publisher of Families Online Magazine a parentin advice and family fun resource.
She has appeared on Good Morning America, Larry King Live, ABC Primetime Live, Fox News, CBS Morning Show and the Today Show just to name a few. Her life story was an ABC movie of the Week special presentation.
Recipient of the
Heinz Award
for Public Policy and the Gleitsman Citizen Activist Award (1996)
Championed the federal income-withholding and criminal non-support legislation enacted by Congress which has doubled the child support collection rate in the last 5 years
Testified before Congressional and Senate committees about child support issues
Testified before numerous state legislatures
Designed, implemented and developed programs and public policies for improving the child support system at the federal and state level
Authored Child Support: A Complete Reference (1999, 2004) an up-to-date state-by-state manual of policy, practices, and statistics, and How to Collect Child Support, 1st, 2nd and 3rd editions
Organizations US Commission on Interstate Child Support
US Department of Health and Human Service Child Support Advisory Council
Publications Author of How to Collect Child Support, Longmeadow press;
Child Support A complete Reference Guide
Column at Families Online Magazine
Education/Credentials Mary Manse College, Toledo, OH
Awards and Honors Heinz Award Public Policy
Jefferson Award
Martin Luther king Award
Question My question is actually about a friend of mine who is in the military. He is currently going through a divorce and he and his wife have a daughter together. His wife has threatened multiple times to not allow him to see his daughter once he comes home from active duty. She has also told him that she is planning on leaving and refuses to tell him where she is going with their daughter. Can she do this? Is she able to relocate with their daughter and not tell him where they are going? They're divorce is not final yet so I don't know if that makes a difference, but this seems wrong to me.
Answer He needs to make sure his divorce includes language that prohibits her from moving more than _____ miles without the approval of the court. this would ensure that he has to be notified that she is moving and he can ask the court to ascertain where she is moving and to modify the order to ensure that he has parenting time with his children.
