our office specializes in all sorts of

high conflict custody disputes they can

be anything from relocation cases

to substance abuse cases

to domestic violence cases

to alienation cases which means when one

parent

has actively interfered with the other

parents relationship with the children i

have had cases where

all four of those things exist and the

more

weighty the case is and the more complex

and

messy the facts are the more we love to

handle those kind of cases

it’s very easy

to

divide

equity in a house or if you have

typical kids who don’t have special

needs and the parents are both good

enough parents to work out a good time

share arrangement but it takes a unique

attorney to work with

very unfavorable facts to try to get

the best resolution for your client

and i’m the type of person because i’m

so competitive and

i love winning as do most of my

competitors who practice at my level but

i think after 40 years i’ve realized you

can’t win every case a hundred percent

so if you win some of the issues

then that’s that’s good enough

and i think that clients come to our

firm

for complex

custody cases and high conflict custody

cases because we’re known for it because

they know that we’re not afraid to try a

case we’re not afraid to litigate we

will take a case

to court even if

it’s not a winner and other attorneys

have turned it away

i have had many attorneys refer me cases

where a client is actively using and

they wash their hands and they’ve said

to me i can’t deal with this client

she’s using cocaine and what i try to do

is say to them if you don’t change

you are going to lose custody of your

child and is that what you really want

to do i don’t think a lot of attorneys

are willing to do that and i think a lot

of attorneys are fearful

of presenting a very challenging case to

a judge for fear that the the judge is

going to think negatively about them

it’s like representing a criminal client

who has committed a horrific act

everybody deserves

representation and they deserve strong

and effective representation

regardless of who they are and it’s up

to the attorney to choose what your

limit is

but once you’re representing that client

you have to give them 100 of your

efforts because they deserve that so

that’s what i’m kind of guided by too so

i revel in those kind of cases and what

i try to do is

try to show the judge

yes this is a messy case yes my client

isn’t a perfect parent no one’s a

perfect parent but under the facts and

the law

this is what he or she is entitled to