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[quote=Anonymous]You have gotten a lot of advice on this thread about child custody, and it is all based on US law and US cultural norms.

Your brother needs the advice of a local divorce attorney. Do parents in his country get 50/50 - if not, do the courts favor another particular arrangement?  Then your brother needs to strategize with the lawyer about what kind of custody he would like to try and get.

At the same time your brother should research what kind of custody is age appropriate - every other day is a lot of transitions for 4.5.  But, every other week is a long time with out seeing the other parent.  Some couples do a version of 2/2/3 which is one parent has M/T, the other W/Th and the weekends (either whole or split) alternate.  Another option is the parents alternate every other day in terms of the time after school until after bath and jammies, and the kid is just delivered back to Mom’s on weekday nights for sleeping.

Your brother needs a lawyer to formalize custody on paper - whether it is mutually agreed or, if not, done through courts - and he must have legal advice on how to document the time he spends with daughter, the $$ he pays, and the requests he’s made to see DD and how Mom has denied or interferred.

Also, TBH, he should have a paternity test done.  I know that’s scary, but he has to have proof that child is his, otherwise Mom may allege it is AP’s sometime down the road. 
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