If you are presently involved in a child custody dispute (or might be involved in one in the future) we have identified information of great importance that you should have.

THIS INFORMATION WILL HELP YOU, AS A FATHER, MAKE YOUR STRONGEST CASE FOR CUSTODY. It will also directly help protect your children now and in the future. Your children will thank you one day for taking “their best interests” seriously!

First, we would like you to know how we have come to be in possession of so much important information. Over the 30-plus years of our working in the child custody field, we have become increasingly involved in cases that frequently may find their way into court. We have acted as expert witnesses, custody evaluators or consultants for hundreds of parents involved in custody disputes all over the country.

Further, as editors of a national publication on custody matters, as responders to a 24-hour “hotline” where we answer questions from professionals about our tests, and as directors of a national organization of custody experts, we continually hear from judges, attorneys, professional experts and parents who in one way or another have been caught up in custody disputes, some of them simple, but most longstanding, complex and bitter.

As a result of all of these activities, we came to gather a huge amount of information on how various psychological and legal strategies, different kinds of evidence, and types of allegations work (or fail to work), both in the courtroom as well as in out-of-court negotiations.

The following are some of our thoughts on what we have experienced. Everything discussed here is covered in our new Strategies handbook.

We were shocked at how many bright, wise, loving—indeed even “savvy”—fathers did not know the single most important fact that must be true if one is to prevail in a custody dispute. And this must be the best kept secret in the world, because even extremely intelligent, sophisticated professionals fail to make use of it. Indeed, even attorneys, who themselves as parents are caught up in custody disputes, frequently do not know how to make his single most important factor work for them.

We identified fourteen “key behaviors” that differentiate between parents who do well in custody disputes from those who do not. We consider these behaviors to be strategically critical.

We have identified what we see as the single biggest mistake a father in a custody dispute can make. And the irony here is that our own legal system actually encourages fathers to make this huge mistake.

If you are a father in a child custody dispute, you must learn to recognize (and deal with) blatantly wrong and immoral strategies that will likely be used against you. To add insult to injury, these strategies can be effective. And in our experience, many attorneys fail to help their clients deal with these tragically effective strategies, because they are more psychological than legal strategies, and attorneys are not often trained either to recognize or deal with them.

Another exceedingly important point is that too many fathers do not fully understand all the important things their attorneys should be doing for them. Simply put, many fathers do not know what they should ask for.

While on the topic of attorneys, we also discovered two important strategies that will literally “force” an attorney to do a better job for a client.

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Voluntary Termination Of Parental Rights (relinquishment) Releases A Father Or Mother From All Parental Responsibilities Including Child Support. Includes Full Instructions & All Necessary Legal Forms. Comes With Easy Step-by-step Filing Instructions….

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Seattle child custody lawyer Eric Engel discusses the changes in custody law regarding a father’s rights.

During the last three decades, there has been tremendous change in the evolution of custody rights. A lot of the statutes of custody law have gone from gender-specific to gender-neutral, allowing a father’s rights to be more prevalent. Some great ideas to help gain your rights as a parent include documenting the time you spend with your child, recognizing and noting things that will give credence to you spending time with your child, and being mindful of any type of abuse in your relationship with your spouse. Abuse can be anything from drug and alcohol use to domestic violence. Watch the video now to learn more.

For more information about custody law and my firm, visit our educational website at http://www.engellawgroup.com, where we have an extensive family law section. If you have legal questions, I want you to call me at (206) 625-9800. I welcome your call.

Engel Law Group
Office Address:
One Union Square
600 University St, Suite 1904
Seattle, WA 98101
Phone: 206-315-6183
Fax: 206-243-8177

Everett Office:
1610 Broadway Ave
Everett, WA 98201

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Hi my name is John Griffith. I’m a divorce and family law attorney here in San Diego, California. This is one of a series of videos that addresses common issues that we see in California divorce and family law cases. I should note that nothing I say is meant to be or intended to be or should be taken as legal advice. If you need legal advice regarding your family law issue, you should talk to a family law attorney. My office gives free consultations; I’d be happy to discuss your case with you if you’d like. Give my office a call and ask for John. Today I’ll be talking about the Department of Child Support Services. The Department of Child Support Services is an enforcement agency governed by the state for the collection and initiation of child support orders. If you’ve received a letter from the Department of Child Support Services that means the other parent has asked the Department of Child Support Services to either start an initial child support order, or establish an initial child support order, or take a child support order that was issued by a different court and enforce that order. So if you’ve received a letter from the Department of Child Support Services, you’re most likely the parent that pays child support to the other parent for the kids. Now when a Department of Child Support case is opened, it can either be opened with a petition to establish a parental relationship and parental obligations in which case there is not a current child support order, or it could be the registration of another order for enforcement. If you don’t have a current child support order in place, then you most likely received a petition to establish parental obligations. The first question you need to ask is whether or not the child that’s listed on the petition is in fact your child, and if you dispute the fact that the child is yours then you absolutely need to contest paternity expressly through the Department of Child Support Services, specifically the Family Support Division of the Superior Court. If you fail to respond to this petition with an answer, then the court a default paternity judgment against you, and you could be deemed to be the legal father or legal parent of this child without participating in the case and taking a paternity test. So it’s very important that you respond to the petition and ask the court to order a paternity test. Now the other side of it is if there’s the current order in place, it probably came from a family court as a result of a divorce or legal separation or some other kind of paternity action. There’s a current quarter in place that wasn’t previously being enforced by the Department of Child Support Services, but the other parent now wants the Department of Child Support Services to enforce that order. Now it’s very important that you respond to whatever the Department of Child Support Services is asking of you. Most likely they’re going to ask you to fill out what’s called an Income and Expense Declaration asking for your current income and to attach pay stubs and things like that. Now that Income and Expense Declaration is a four page document that the court looks at. There’s several factors that the court’s going to look at as far as the child support order is concerned and enforcement of the child support order is concerned. If you have any questions on that document, the Income and Expense Declaration, you should talk to an attorney about it and have an attorney help you fill that out. Now there are several ways that the Department of Child Support Services enforces an order for child support. If you’re behind in child support, the Department of Child Support Services can initiate driver’s license suspension. They can, if you owe more than two thousand dollars in child support, they can suspend your passport; they can also revoke your passport. They can notify the Department of State so that you can’t have a passport reissued after it expires. They can levy your bank account, they can levy your tax return, and you if hold a professional license like a law degree or a contractor’s license or medical license, they can actually suspend your license to do what you do for living. So it’s very important that you don’t ignore the letter

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