Legal Question in Family Law in California

My seven year old son was appointed an atterney by our judge. I feel this atterney is byist to this case. He's doing everything the father wants and is not doing whats in the best interest of our child. This atterney ignores everything I say, it goes in one ear and out the other. He never returnes my phone calls, my emails nothing. Other people that I have talked to that have had this same attorney said that the fathers have all gotten full custodey of their children. My son cryes to me everynight on the phone stating he wants to live with me. The father is very violent which I have police reports and pictures and he has also been in jail for domestic violence and according to my son he's now doing it to his new girlfriend. Can you please tell me how I can get him off this case, he's done nothing but cause my son more heartace and pain. Far more than what he started out with.


Asked on 1/11/10, 11:01 am

1 Answer from Attorneys

It sounds like you do not have an attorney of your own. You need to get one right away. If the father really has a domestic violence record, then he is presumptively not entitled to custody. If that is not being properly advanced in the court, it needs to be, right away. The attorney for your son should not be driving this train. You need to get your own attorney on it right now. This is not something you can do yourself, and if you read my other responses I almost always tell family law parties to try to do things themselves. This is not the time for that.

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Answered on 1/16/10, 11:50 am


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