Custody

You can file a motion asking the judge to change (modify) your custody order.¹ To get the judge to agree to change a final custody order, you need to show that:

• there has been a change in circumstances since your order was given;
• the change in circumstances is “substantial and continuing”; and
• changing the custody order in the way you want would be in the child’s best interests.²

¹ 16 V.I.C. § 110
² Rogers v. Rogers, No. 153-77, 1977 WL 425576 (Terr. V.I. Sept. 21, 1977)