Bossier Parish Child custody process
Organize the Louisiana legal route, local filing record, evidence, service requirements, and unresolved verification points before requesting a paid document scope or presenting anything to the clerk.
Choose the procedural objective
Establish initial custody / visitation
UCCJEA home-state jurisdiction · Temporary emergency jurisdiction
Review and stage this routeConsent custody and parenting plan
Detailed custody implementation plan · Equal physical custody feasibility
Review and stage this routeModify existing custody order
UCCJEA home-state jurisdiction · Temporary emergency jurisdiction
Review and stage this routeEnforce order / contempt / make-up time
Open the workspace to inspect the route requirements and document set.
Review and stage this routeRelocation notice, objection, or authorization
UCCJEA home-state jurisdiction
Review and stage this routeDomestic-abuse or emergency safety relief
Temporary emergency jurisdiction
Review and stage this routePrimary-source starting points
Source set reviewed 2026-10-07. Read the current text, local orders, and the filed record before acting.
- Civil Code arts. 131–136; R.S. 9:335 and 9:364
- Civil Code art. 134 — Best-interest factors and family violence
- Civil Code art. 138 — Modification of custody decrees
- R.S. 9:335 — Joint custody implementation orders
- R.S. 9:361–375 — Family violence, injunctions, and use of home
- R.S. 13:1801 et seq. — UCCJEA
- R.S. 9:355.1 et seq. — Relocation