Fill and Sign the Louisiana Custody Order Form

_____________ : ______ JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT VS : PARISH OF ______ , LOUISIANA _____________ : DOCKET NO. ______ _________________________________________________________________ RULE TO CHANGE CUSTODY FROM SOLE CUSTODY TO JOINT CUSTODY AND TO DESIGNATE CUSTODIAL PARENT NOW INTO COURT, through undersigned counsel, comes _____________ , who suggests to the Court the following: I. Petitioner and Defendant were divorced by Judgment of this Court on the ___ day of ______ 20 ___ . II. Pursuant to said Judgment, Defendant, _____________ , was granted the sole care, custody and control of the minor children born of the marriage, namely _____________ and _____________ , subject to _____________ 's specific visitation privileges set forth therein. III. Petitioner, _____________ , now desires the joint custody of said minor children, with Petitioner being designated as custodial parent, subject to reasonable visitation by _____________ . IV. Your Petitioner alleges that during the month of ______ 20 ___ , the minor children, _____________ and _____________ , made allegations of physical and sexual abuse by the husband of _____________ . V. Your Petitioner further alleges that these allegations are being investigated by the ______ Parish Sheriff's Office, and in connection therewith, the minor children were removed from their mother and placed with your petitioner by the Honorable _____________ , District Judge, ______ Parish. VI. Petitioner, _____________ , further alleges that because of the allegations of physical and sexual abuse, that immediate and irreparable injury may occur to the minor children and, therefore, it is in the minor children's best interest that he be awarded the temporary care, custody and control of the minor children, _____________ and _____________ , until further orders of this Court. VII. Petitioner, _____________ , desires that any child support he has been ordered to pay be temporarily suspended pending further orders of the Court. WHEREFORE , Petitioner, _____________ , prays that this Honorable Court order the Defendant, _____________ , to show cause on a date and at a time to be fixed by this Honorable Court, why petitioner and defendant should not be granted the joint custody of the minor children born of the marriage, with _____________ being designated as custodial parent, and that _____________ be awarded reasonable visitation privileges. Petitioner further prays that he be awarded the temporary care, custody and control of the minor children until further orders of this Court. Petitioner further prays that any child support he has been ordered to pay be temporarily suspended pending further orders of this Court. RESPECTFULLY SUBMITTED, _______________________________ _____________ Attorney at Law _____________ ______ , LA ______ ( ___ ) ______ Defendant can be served at: _____________ _____________ ______ , LA ______ STATE OF LOUISIANA PARISH OF ______ BEFORE ME, the undersigned Notary Public, duly commissioned and legally qualified within and for the Parish and State aforesaid, personally came and appeared _____________ , who, being first duly sworn, did depose and say that: l. He is the petitioner in the above proceedings; 2. All of the allegations of fact contained therein are true and correct to the best of his knowledge, information and belief; and 3. That due to allegations of physical and sexual abuse of the minor children, he feels that immediate and irreparable harm will result to the children and is therefore requesting a temporary custody order prior to a hearing being held. _______________________________ _____________ SWORN TO AND SUBSCRIBED before me this ____ day of ______ , 20 ___ . ________________________________ NOTARY PUBLIC _____________ : ______ JUDICIAL DISTRICT COURT VS : PARISH OF ______ , LOUISIANA _____________ : DOCKET NO. ______ _________________________________________________________________ O R D E R Considering the foregoing: IT IS ORDERED that Defendant, _____________ , show cause on the ______ day of ________________, 20 ___ , at ___ o’clock ___ .M., as a _____ fixing, why Petitioner, _____________ , should not be granted the joint custody of the minor children born of the marriage, namely, _____________ and _____________ , with _____________ being designated as custodial parent. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that _____________ is granted the temporary care, custody and control of the minor children, _____________ and _____________ , until further orders of this Court. IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that any child support which Plaintiff, _____________ , was ordered to pay be temporarily suspended pending further orders of this Court. THUS DONE AND SIGNED at _____________ , Louisiana, this _____ day of ______ , 20 ___ . ______________________________ DISTRICT JUDGE