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		| Originally posted by Spanky Really?  So if you have a divorced couple and one parent dies custody does not automatically go to the surviving parent?  Does there have to be a hearing or something?
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  One of us has this backwards.  It may be me.  What I meant was, you can't choose your kid's custody arrangements (for after your death) in your will.  ("Devise", of course, being a term for gifting by will.)