Do you know anyone that does not get to see their father? We are not lawyers and no one at B2Review.com can offer legal advise but if you are a father and your child has been taken, you most likely want them back right away. As a father, it feels like your right to be with your child, and while fathers know they could forcefully take their child, it would most likely end in many life long legal issues and ongoing relationship problems. This is part of the reason why we have “Fathers’ Rights!” It started as a needed movement but it is now part of our culture and law in the United States, the UK, and other parts of the world.
“If you are a biological mother, we encourage you to do everything possible to make it easy for the biological father to see your child and spend as much quality time with them as possible. This will improve the child’s health and give your child a more optimal environment to grow and develop in. Making it hard for a father to see their child, even if you believe there is a problem, is abuse and a human rights concern.” ~B2Review
These are some quotes that you might mention the next time someone needs help understanding what the fathers’ rights movement is about:
“Parental Child Abduction is Abuse, report to the UN Convention on Child Rights” ~Nancy Faulkner, Ph.D
“Health Neglect – The abducted child is often medically & physically neglected” ~findsabrina.org
“Parental child abduction victimizes more than 354,000 U.S. families each year. This crime is widely misunderstood by those not directly affected by the crime, including some law enforcement and government officials, who are under the misconception that children are inherently safe when they are with an abducting parent. Nothing could be farther from the truth.” ~findsabrina.org
This information can be found on dadsrights.com:
• 72% of all teenaged murderers grew up without fathers. 60% of rapists were raised in fatherless homes.
Cornell, Dewey et al. “Characteristics of Adolescents Charged with Homicide.” Behavioral Sciences and the Law 5
• 70% of the kids now incarcerated in juvenile corrections facilities grew up in a single-parent environment.
Beck, Allen, Susan Kline, and Lawrence Greenfield. Survey of Youth in Custody, 1987. US Bureau of Justice Statistics. Washington, D.C.: GPO,
• Fatherless children are twice as likely to drop out of school as their classmates who live with two parents.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Survey on Child Health. Washington, D.C.: GPO,
• Fatherless children are eleven times more likely than are children from intact families to exhibit violent behavior.
Barber, Nigel. “Single Parenthood As a Predictor of Cross-National Variation in Violent Crime.” Cross-Cultural Research 38
• Children whose fathers are absent consistently score lower than the norm in reading and math tests.
Teachman, Jay, et al. “Sibling Resemblance in Behavioral and Cognitive Outcomes: The Role of Father Presence.” Journal of Marriage and the Family 60
• 75% of teen suicides occur in single-parent families.
Jean Beth Eshtain, “Family Matters: The Plight of America’s Children.” The Christian Century
• Children who live apart from their fathers experience more accidents and a higher rate of chronic asthma, headaches, and speech defects.
Harknett, Kristin. Children’s Elevated Risk of Asthma in Unmarried Families: Underlying Structural and Behavioral Mechanisms. Working Paper #2005-01-FF. Princeton, NJ: Center for Research on Child Well-being,
• 80% of the adolescents in psychiatric hospitals come from fatherless homes.
Jack Block, et al. “Parental Functioning and the Home Environment in Families of Divorce”, Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27
• Compared to girls raised in homes where both parents are present, the daughters of single parents are 164% more likely to become pregnant before marriage, 53% more likely to marry as teenagers, and 92% more likely to dissolve their own marriages.
Barbara Dafoe Whitehead, Atlantic Monthly
• A growing body of evidence shows a high correlation between fatherlessness and violence among young men (especially violence against women).
F.R. Duplantier, The Importance Of Fathers, HERITAGE FOUNDATION HOME
• The absence of a biological father increases a daughter’s vulnerability to rape and sexual abuse by 900%. (Often these assaults are committed by stepfathers or the boyfriends
of custodial mothers).
1988 National Health Interview Survey conducted by the National Center for Health StatisticsNational Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) is part of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), which is part of the United States Department of Health and Human Services.
Fathers Rights And Extended Family
As you can see there are many reasons why not spending quality time with your children as a father can be detrimental to their development but it does not stop here. Your extended family will most likely experience a change in visitation.
Fathers rights seem to change from state to state. On one video online a lawyer mentions that men may have a tendency to “stick their head in the sand”, “leave town”, or “retaliate in anger.” This is understandable because the amount of stress that is caused by someone taking your child against your will is tremendous. If this is your first child and you have other stresses you are already dealing with it may be necessary to develop new tools to manage stress even more efficiently just to deal with the problems you will be facing.
Many grandmothers and the entire paternal side of the family can be effected and may not be able to see their grandchildren when fathers rights are taken. You may need a non-parental form to petition the court. Over the next few months B2Review plans to give you reviews of lawyers, institutions, and agencies working in this area so you can make the best choices when asserting your “Fathers’ Rights.” We do suggest you lean more about the fathers rights movement and act now!
Fathers Rights
Assert Fathers’ Rights
Most government and non-government groups that we have spoken with do offer free advise and council for fathers however this is very hard to acquire because of the time frames and when you do speak with someone they normally are not able to help you with your problems or might forward you to other groups or lawyers. To start any legal action for your rights as a father it seems you must visit a courthouse in person during a specific time frame to start the paperwork or find a lawyer to pay for filing your rights as a father. Both options in this case have given “all” of the fathers we have spoken with the opportunity to be with their child even if it takes time and money. It does not seem to make much of a difference if you are married or not but if you are the father, you do have a right to see your child.
National and Federal Services
Maybe you are dealing with a partner that is from another state or country. Maybe they have wanted to leave with your child and leave you behind. How can you stop this from happening? Most local authorities seem to be pushing fathers to spend money on local lawyers and in local courts while their children remain missing. This national service is more interested in finding your child and making sure they are safe. We have contacted over 50 national services that work with fathers rights, missing children, and other custody concerns. One of the only places that has really provided help in the right direction is the “National Center for Missing & Exploited Children.” They need you to first try to work with your local law enforcement but then once you have they provide a wealth of contacts and information on how to go about finding your child and asserting your rights as a father or a mother. They can be contacted at 1-800-THE-LOST and be sure to continue to keep them posted and call back with progress so they can offer additional support and services. There are many fathers right now that are benefiting from this national response service center and we have suggested it to many fathers this week!
Most other national agencies we have spoke with are friendly and welcome calls but are only able to provide real assistance in very special situations and normally forward you to a few other phone numbers who also are only able to forward you to more phone numbers. If you are concerned that your child may be taken to a different country you should consider contacting the airlines to know their procedure and the embassy of the given nation for any support or details. In most cases it seems that a Mother could take a child or children away from their father to a different county with passports and there would be no controls over stopping it. The local police could work with the local police in the foreign location once they are there but this is obviously difficult and may not result in resolving your fathers’ rights.
Are you at risk?
Possible profiles for abduction (wife):
1. Have threatened to abduct or abducted previously;
2. Are suspicious and distrustful due to a belief abuse has occurred;
3. Are paranoid-delusional;
4. Are sociopathic;
5. Has strong ties to another country; and
6. Feel she may be disenfranchised from the legal system.
-by “Prevent Abuse Now”
*NOTE – In most of the cases where I have spoken with other fathers their wife has attempted to create stories and said the father has any variety of these characteristics. This could also be part of the reasons the wife gives for having taken the child. Of course even if you do have all 6 of these concerns as a father it is no reason to keep a child away from their father which would be causing additional damage to the child or children’s health.
Services And Reporting Parental Abduction
Even if you are at risk and your child has been taken, I suggest trying to report it to your local enforcement if they really are missing (if you do not know where you child is and can not find them after looking then they are missing). In many areas they will report it and start working on it right away but in some metro areas where there are many people from other countries around the world it may be hard to gain the support of your local department because of the amount of concerns or other cultural differences. This seems to be the case to a greater degree if you are internationally married and they are outside the local city or zip codes. Instead an investigator at your local DA office may be able to confirm you are going about the process correctly in regards to your local city. Even so, it seems in many cases, the child is taken out of the state so be sure to report it and get a case number with the national center at 1800-THE-LOST.
Afraid To Report It?
Do you think your wife or partner might make up a story about you and work with the legal system to punish you? This is a very normal fear especially when you wife may be saying you beat your child and/or her. Many of the wives and spouses will make up many stories both true and false about the other person as a way to make excuses to keep the child away from them. Do not let this stop you from reporting it and this is no excuse to hide a child. It is much more important that you find your child than be manipulated by someone through fear. Do everything you can to look for them first, but then call the national hotline and find out what steps are next. Do not let your child go through additional health concerns just because you are not able to resist manipulation from your wife or others. If you need help from me just to get started or which direction to look you are always welcome to email help@b2review.com and I will do my best to point you in a direction that may help.
Meeting After A Parental Abduction
Many wives and mothers have agreed to meet with their fathers in a public location, police controlled hospitals, churches, and cathedrals however my opinion is not to do this. What happens is that they may show up late trying to make it look like you did not show, run off while you are in the public place only minutes after any communication, or maybe grab the child out of your hands while you are holding them and have the local authorities keep you from them. For these and many other reasons I suggest only meeting in a public location if the authorities are only there to arrest them. Instead allow the wife and child to come back to their home anytime they wish or let them know you can have them picked up anytime. This will cost less public funds, will help allow a path for your family to get back together, and keep your children out of a extremely public stressful situation.
This opinion was developed based on the successful experiences from fathers that we have spoken with. It was also based on the unsuccessful stories that we hear almost every day of fathers that have had a public meeting just to try to spend quality time with their children.
State Laws
Child abduction laws very from state to state but this was found on the Los Angeles DA’s office:
WHAT IS AN ABDUCTION?
Someone who takes, entices away, keeps, withholds, or conceals a child from a lawful custodian or a person with a right to visitation and who did so with the mental state required under the criminal law has broken that law. The law may still be broken in situations where a mother and father have a child together but no custody order exists regarding that child. (California Penal Code sections 278 and 278.5)
CAN A FAMILY MEMBER ABDUCT HIS/HER OWN CHILD?
Yes! In fact, the majority of abductions are committed by a mother, father, grandparent, or other relative. If you think that a family member who takes his/her child is not breaking the law, you are wrong. CHILD ABDUCTION, EVEN BY A FAMILY MEMBER, IS A FELONY punishable by up to three years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
ARE THERE ANY EXCEPTIONS?
Yes. A child may be kept away from the other parent or person with visitation or custody rights if that person is harmful to the child, and if certain legal requirements are met. If you think that taking or keeping a child in violation of the terms of a custody or visitation order would be justified for the safety of you or the child, you should call the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office at (213) 974-7424. If you do not have a legally allowable reason for taking or keeping the child, you could face charges of child abduction. (Penal Code section 278.7)
WHAT TO DO IF YOUR CHILD IS ABDUCTED:
1. File a Police Report: Interference in your right to have access to your child is a crime and a police report should be taken. THIS IS TRUE WHETHER OR NOT YOU HAVE A CUSTODY ORDER. The report should be made with the police department which serves the location where you live. Make sure that the police also take a missing person’s report on your child, and that they enter the information into NCIC, the national crime information computer system.
***Note in most cases that I have heard from real fathers the local police will not be able to take a formal report but they will come visit your home and confirm the safety of the location if you wife has abducted the child. They will instead persuade you to pay a lawyer or spend time in family court to get an order so they are paid to find your wife and child. This is understandable since the police would spend too much time trying to find children with all of the mothers that frequently hide kids even after a court order is in place. In other words this normally does not work for fathers from what I have heard because even if they find the children and biological mother they are likely to continue to break the court order and hide the children again costing you even more money in additional court fees.
2. Obtain a Custody Order if You Do Not Already Have One: Although a custody order is not required to report an abduction to the police as a crime, having a custody order, or at least filing for custody in Family Court, can lead to other resources to assist you in locating and recovering your child.
3. Contact the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office Child Abduction Section at (213) 974-7424. We can provide advice on your situation, as well as potentially directly assist you in locating and recovering your child. Please see “How the District Attorney Can Help You” part of this website.
4. Contact Other Agencies for Assistance: Numerous private agencies assist parents in locating their missing children. The largest such agency is The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children at (800) 843-5678.
Parental Abduction And Your Local District Attorneys Office
Every office is different of course and seems to have a different procedure for parental abductions. Your local DA’s office may not be able to help you unless they are able to locate your wife and missing children (almost funny since they are *missing*) and it seems in many cases this can only be done after there is a court order from a judge in a family court which can cost $5,000 to $10,000 USD up front as a retainer depending on which lawyer you choose to work with. I have spoke with at least 100 in various states and this seems consistent. Many DA offices will simply say they, “do not have a system for this.” If you wife has taken your money and belongings it can be difficult to work on this with a financial hardship and the added stress as well as grief. Also, they will normally push you to peruse a divorce first instead of just allowing your child to visit with their biological parent or order the child to be brought home. This is understandable however since there are so many ongoing parental abduction and run away wife cases. Even if you are able to make it to family court and you do see you child more often, your child will most likely not be in an optimal environment with both biological parents loving as a family under one roof until you start working on your marriage.
What Are The Odds?
“By far the most common kind of child abduction isparental child abduction and often occurs when the parents separate” ~Wikipedia
Studies performed for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reported that in 1999, 53% percent of family abducted children were gone less than one week, and 21% were gone one month or more. ~Wikipedia
“A single mother’s standard of living almost always significantly decreases after a divorce.” Michele W-D.
“60% of second marriages end in divorce.” Michele W-D.
Divorce is a huge strain on public aid and our tax dollars. Single mothers typically require much more aid as divorced parents than the married equal.
If you meet a parent who has said they took off or are not living at home now with their children and biological parents for any reason please remind them that the optimal way to start working on their marriage is to be at their home together. You might also suggest reading over some material from Michele Weiner-Davis, M.S.W. who teaches ways for couples to work on their marriage first, then the kids will benefit, then the other aspects of their life including work and leisure time will follow. She also seems to believe that in some cases you may benefit from taking action before you have the feeling and doing what you can to become the person your partner fell in love with. I believe she is right. In a way you are taking action so you get the feeling and develop your marriage in a positive way.
Michele does say that in almost every case it is important for both parents to be at home with their children. I also seem to remember Michele mentioning something to the effect of, “one of the first steps in improving marriages is to be under the same roof.” Keep children with their fathers.On one website they mention a theripist said, “ If the spouse is blaming, denying, and making excuses, then it’s probably not, (working)” and they said it may be time to give up however this is not the case because even after a parent files for divorce and attempts to keep a child away from the other parent they are still around 10% more likely to be married to the same partner again, says Michele to some degree. In many cases she mentions she has seen it only takes on partner to help guide the other partner back to their stable married relationship.
I have heard countless situations where a mother, for any variety of reasons that she may mention, will take a child from the father while they are gone, away from their car, or even with the help of their family and friends. These fathers almost all say the same thing, hire the best female lawyer you can find right away, the problem will last over a year even if you think you can fix your relationship and solve the problem quickly, it will get much more difficult before it gets better. All of these parts of the process and problems that people have mentioned are up for review.
Even when you have tried to work things out and see your children for many weeks, months, or years, it is important that you focus on solving your problem. The problem is that many fathers are not able to spend quality time with their children because their children have been illegally taken by their wife, partner, family, or even others. Why is this a problem? It forces Federal statutes to be activated with costly time and people as well violates local state codes such as SECTION 277-280 California). If it is an international concern it may also cost the time of other governments or agencies as well as the child’s health.
Parental child abduction
By far the most common kind of child abduction is parental child abduction and often occurs when the parents separate or begin divorce proceedings. A parent may remove or retain the child from the other seeking to gain an advantage in expected or pending child-custody proceedings or because that parent fears losing the child in those expected or pending child-custody proceedings; a parent may refuse to return a child at the end of an access visitor may flee with the child to prevent an access visit or fear of domestic violence and abuse.
Parental child abductions may be within the same city, within the state region or within the same country, or may be international. Studies performed for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention reported that in 1999, 53% percent of family abducted children were gone less than one week, and 21% were gone one month or more.” -Wiki
Of course even if you fear or have feelings of violence and abuse you may not remove your child from their home and cause more problems for them. Instead consider working out your problems with your partner directly or using the tools and services available to you to keep your family under the same roof. This way your child will still receive the many benefits of living with their biological parents. If you need help finding these services please contact us at help@b2review.com — As a mother you could work out your own parenting schedule, take a vacation with an agreement to leave the kids with family, ask for help from social services, or take a break but do not take your child away from their father.
Under More Stress Than Ever?
We welcome your contact. Join a fathers rights group by video or in person. Almost every father that has their child taken or hidden is under more stress than ever. This may also include the treat of divorce, now knowing if your child or wife is still alive, and having to completely change what you would normally do to compensate because they are gone. Finances and general quality of life may be drastically changed which will cause even more stress. To get some ideas on ways to improve this I suggest using some of these concepts:
http://www.gregoryhillman.org/2011/08/03/how-to-manage-stress-grief-and-ways-to-optimize-health
If you are interested in starting your own fathers’ rights group please email help@b2reivew.com and we can help advertise your group here or let you know about other interested people in your area. This is not like the movies or on TV, this is the real thing and your children’s lives are negatively effected if they are not spending significant quality time with their biological father. Your child can be healthy.
Let Us Know About Fathers’ Rights
Please let us know if you are interested in joining our fathers’ rights group in Los Angeles by sending us an email at help@b2review.com. Thanks!
Many fathers in our groups express almost exactly the same concerns and experience very similar situations. Here are some things other fathers have experienced that you may prepare yourself for:
Friends, Family, and others will suggest that you divorce your wife after she hides your child.
This is very common and almost every father has expressed this. Many people may see that you are in an extreme amount of emotional pain after they hear about your abducted child. They want the pain to go away fast and the fastest way they can think of is to get you back to the way you were before you were married with a divorce. Also, it seems custody becomes easier to gain once parents are divorced. Remember that the optimal environment for your child is with both biological parents under the same roof caring for them and divorce will not help you reach this optimal place. Instead you could consider working on your marriage, letting your friends know that you appreciate their concerns, and working with them to improve your life as well as your marriage.
People may suggest you pay a lawyer and go to court.
Many fathers who have been through a custody problem or abduction have, at some point, paid many thousands of dollars to lawyers, courts, and other agencies for services. Some fathers report around $150,000 – $300,000 just in legal fees over the duration of the child’s life due to a wife or partner taking the child and hiding them from the other parent. Although the court is a necessary tool for many it may not help you improve the optimal environment for your child due to the cost, time, and once the court makes a decision the child normally does not get to spend 100% of their time with the father or the mother. So no only may the child be “legally” tossed back and forth but the expense of court fees, lawyers, meeting times, and other lost time put many parents on public aid with in the first year of the parental abduction and courts.
Some friends may even suggest a “free” family court. These courts really do cost money and time in more ways than it may first appear and can not help your daughter be with both of her happily married parents in an optimal environment. They can order when your child sees which parent but the enforcement is through the other local authorities. They may be able to give you a court order for the local police to look for your wife and child but they may not be able to find her quickly since sometimes your wife is also hiding your children. Once your wife does not let you see your child again when the court has ordered you may need to spend more money and time getting your wife back into court to start following the court ordered parental agreement. In many cases the father is awarded full custody since the mother had hidden the child from the father (many times biological), created stores about the father, and may held liable for false emails or other messages.
Her family or friends may say you are “angry”, have behavior problems, beat on your family, don’t pay or care for your child, don’t make enough money, and even are “threatening.”
This is very common with the fathers we have spoken with. In many cases when a wife hides a child she will enlist the help of her friends or family and tell them these things so they pretend to have a reason for keeping a child away from their parent. If they are from another country they may look for the help from friends or family from other countries besides the United States who may not know it is a felony to keep a child away from their father. Helping to hide a child is, of course, still illegal and a common problem with parental abductions.
In many cases we have seen, a family or group will convince someone they have an anger problem and will try to get the person to take pills in an effort to make a divorce and child custody easier. Of course this does not help the child to be away from their father if they are committed, the pills normally have damaging side effects, and can hurt your system even more during an extremely stressful time. It may also be costly to have a licensed professional give you pills for an anger concern which may not be money spent in an effort to work on your marriage. If you do feel you have an anger problem, take an low cost or free anger management class and work to solve your anger concern but remember, this is still no reason to keep a child away from their father. It is just manipulation. Most fathers and children we have spoken with have said that the prescriptions they took during this time did not help their problem but being with their biological father would have. If you need more ideas on ways to manage stress consider this page for a reference: http://www.gregoryhillman.org/2011/08/03/how-to-manage-stress-grief-and-ways-to-optimize-health/
Some lawyers will say “the kids follow the money” and even though this may be statistically true it is not a reason to keep a child away from their biological parent or hide a child. Just because you are not working or making as much as you once did before you were married does not mean it is healthy or legal to hide a child or keep them from their father. You will make plenty of money again one day and remember this is just another way people try to manipulate fathers to spending more on the court system, legal fees, and many other things that are misguided and do not help with their marriage.
Your wife may tell her friends or family to say you are threatening even when you do not threaten them. Certainly we do not have a need to threaten anyone right now even though our child has been abducted. Instead be sure to be direct, stay what you feel and what you want to have happen, but be sure to do it in a way that does not cause harm to others during the process. Your child has already experienced enough harm and the attention must be placed back on keeping them in an optimal environment with both loving caring biological parents if at all possible. In almost every case we have heard it is possible even after a divorce, additional kids with other spouses, and plenty of other road blocks.
If she left things behind after the abduction she, her friends, or her family, may break into your home and take things.
In most cases the wife has thought about the abduction for months before it actually happens but when they do it they are normally not prepared. They still only typically take enough things that they believe will keep them and the baby going for a few days. After this point or even years down the road someone may drill a deadbolt, steal your things along with your wife’s necessities, and take any paperwork that you may need. If this happens, be prepared, use your tools to manage stress, and recover as fast as possible. Most lawyers will also suggest not leaving your home even if you can not afford it with out your wife. Most families and fathers were not making excess money to begin with so the cost of dealing with the abduction and a total change in life can be catastrophic. You might consider focusing on the problem which is usually helping your child spend time with their biological father and thinking of ways to best accomplish that with the least funds as possible. You may be amazed how far you can stretch your money when you need to.
She may take your money or empty credit and bank accounts.
It seems to be very common for a wife that is hiding children to take additional money from you, checks that you both were planning on depositing, and cash out a credit card with fees and penalties. Remember that this may happen at any point or happen repeatedly but remember to manage the stress that comes from it and remember that you will make plenty of money again. Now it is time on working on your marriage and then your child will be in a more optimal environment. Even doing nothing and giving your wife a break while she spends your money has saved a couple marriages we have heard of. Of course this also leads to financial hardships for both people even if they get back together but if they do get back together it seems to make the rest of the child’s life much less expensive which more than makes up for it.
She may take passports and leave for another country.
It also seems to be very common with the fathers in our groups to mention their wife took the child’s passport and tried to start a new life in another country. Really there is little anyone can do about this to stop it from happening. Most of the airlines we have spoken with will let the wife and abducted child fly even if there is a case reported as long as they bought the ticket. Embassies in most countries we have spoken to will allow the wife and child to enter into their country freely even with a court order from another country. Also as a biological father, most airlines we have spoken with will not allow you to find out if your child is on a flight, if they have purchased a ticket for a flight, or if they have been on the flight. In most cases they require the ticket number for this information. The legal fees normally go from around $15,000 to $40,000 for international cases but remember, this is a small price, you will make money, and it is more important to focus on working on your marriage or with the biological mother so the child is in a better environment.
Who Cares About Fathers Rights?
We have spoken with children, mothers, and fathers who are concerned about fathers rights from most countries in the world however there are some places that seem to have more of a problem when it comes to fathers rights that other places. ”Google Trends” is an excellent place to find quality information about who is searching for “Fathers Rights” This list shows which countries search for fathers right the most. You might be supprised to find out that even though Ireland is very small, most of the searches are coming from that nation followed closely by South Africa and the United Kingdom.
1. Ireland
2. South Africa
3. United Kingdom
4. United States
5. Australia
6. Canada
If your wife has immigrated from one of these locations, your odds of a parental abduction and a concern with fathers’ rights may be increased however even in Ireland we are on the side of fathers rights, “In general, the courts consider that it is very important for the welfare of a child that it should have a relationship with both its parents, and they are slow to deny access rights to the natural parent of a child.” Through our groups and contacts we personally know many wives or biological mothers from Ireland, South Africa, and the United Kingdom that are currently hiding and keeping children from their fathers in the United States and in many cases near Los Angeles California.
Finding A Fathers Rights Lawyer
Before you go to court, even if you do not have money, call up all of the family lawyers in you area. This might be 50 or even 100 lawyers but ask what services they can provide to help your child spend quality easy time with their biological father. They should be able to provide a free consultation that tells you exactly which forms they will file, when they will show up in court for you, and how they can help the child spend time with the biological father. If they can not do this basic task, thank them for their time, update an online review so other fathers can find the best lawyers quickly, and move on to the next one. After speaking with many family lawyers in Los Angeles over the phone and in person we have only really found one that is reasonably priced and really can help children spend time with their fathers because she is able to see right through the manipulation because of her experience.
Lisa can be easily reached at (818) 994-5575 and she does offer a free consultation to fathers who are trying to help their children. She is available 24 hours a day. Please call many other lawyers as well after you speak with Lisa and let us know what you think by email or phone at help@b2review or by calling (802)445-5626.
Fathers’ Rights in Los Angeles Tip
Each area of Los Angeles has a court house close by. If your child was taken in LA this could be a wonderful source of legal information for you. If you are looking at lawyers or for additional help visit one of the family law free legal centers in the court house. Be prepared because there will be almost 20 times as many mothers with children in the waiting area and many will be saying similar manipulative schemes as your parental abductor so remember that you control your own behavior and focus on helping your child spend quality time with both of their biological parents.
Show up by 8:00 AM or before to get on the list if you are a father, be honest with what has happened, and remember they are not going to be your lawyer. They do not open until 8:30 AM but the early bird does get the worm because the entire hall ways are filled before noon.
They can help answer legal questions and point you in the right direction. Be sure you know what you want before you arrive and be organized with all of your documents. Also, tell them the truth and how your child’s heath has been effected by the parental abduction. Many times the staff or other people will say that it is not really an abduction because you are married just to see if you are easily manipulated. Do not fall for this and stay healthy, the mother is hiding or keeping the child from you and if she will not bring the child back she is committing a felony in the United States. Just check your local DA website. Stand up for your rights and let them know that you want to file the forms you need to help your child spend quality healthy time with their father.
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