A: Peter's answer: That's an extremely difficult question to answer. In New York, the rule on custodial modifications (changes) is that there has to be a "change in circumstances" and that the modification is in the best interests of the child. However, having no clue about how it is you ended up out of custody stops the analysis here. Typically, dads get custody if the mom is so far out of it that there is no way to leave the child with mom. If this happened to you, then the fight will be much harder. Another way dads get custody is if they have access to the forensic evaluator and can manipulate the evaluation. Again, any damage done to your reputation in litigation will increase your burden of changing custody back to you. But no matter what you do, never try family court in New York without competent counsel who is well versed in family law.

A: Peter's answer: One of the most handy frauds perpetrated upon our country today is the domestic violence fraud. Here, the assumption is that all males are violent and must be prosecuted. It can be pulled whenever a child's custody needs to be decided, when a divorce is to be executed or when a family is to be broken up by outsiders. It can hide criminal operations as long as the perpetrator is a woman who alleges that the person who caught her also punched her and injured her and the arresting officer believes her. Our states all know that federal VAWA funding comes in without stop just like Medicare dollars flood in without stop. So each case is handled like candy on a factory conveyor belt. I recall the I Love Lucy episode when Lucy and Ethel were hired by a confectioner and they bombed that day's candy production because they were incompetent. I Love Lucy, Season 2, Episode 36. The same is played out in today's domestic violence factory by today's ladies. The woman's husband is labeled an "abuser" and has an ex parte order of protection issued issued against him. He might never be served. Although labeled an "abuser" he goes about his business as if he was just a married man. Until he is arrested for being near his wife does he realize the machine that he is up against: fraudster cops who fabricate police reports against him, fraudster doctors who build up a medical record of the wife against him and prosecutors who work under a zero dismissal policy taking these bogus cases to verdict. From the point of view of the system's players, he is just a number. He gets arrested, processed and released right away like all of his kind: middle class and male. This may be homage to the fact that the system knows he will do nothing because he is an ordinary middle class citizen made into a criminal for state receipt of federal VAWA dollars. The reason this works this way is our judiciary allows it. Judges sitting on domestic violence cases permit the prosecutor any kind of shenanigan. Typically, the police report never gets admitted into evidence. The "weapon" used never gets admitted into evidence. The whole case is built up on yackety-yack peppered with buzz words: "I was abused"; "He threatened to kill me"; He pointed a gun at me". Facts are deliberately avoided. The judge does nothing about it. In the most egregious cases, the judge will allow the prosecution to go far afield on direct examination to bolster her case while defense counsel is shut up with sustained objections. Nevertheless, there is not one iota of evidence of any abuse presented. In your state, you have a pro-arrest policy. Fla. Stat. Ann. § 741.29 (4)(B). This means your booking offices are flooded with middle class men being shown the inside of the criminal justice system. It follows in your state that you have a pro prosecution policy with no dismissals. So your courts are clogged with middle class men being adjourned time after time until they take plea to a conditional discharge and a full order of protection to stay away from their wives. If they want to try the case, more shenanigans happen. Mid trial, the case is adjourned for months because the prosecutor was pushed into another trial for another case. The court gives only a few hours each day for trial prolonging it for weeks or months. The Judge is out or late and the case gets adjourned again. In each of these instances, the order of protection stands against the husband who remains at risk for another arrest for "violating" it. So, the court convicts a person via an order of protection way before any trial takes place. No doubt this woman's husband was just another of the cattle being prodded along in a system aimed to make him into a criminal possibly for future family law based litigation. He was "in and out". The next step is that when enough men realize what's happening to them, a popular revolt will materialize and there is no telling how our system of government will be modified

A: Peter's answer: Nope. No conflict at all. Dual dads are very frequently represented by one lawyer especially when there is a connection to a court appointed evaluator who will opine that you should lose your children to the men. This means that coercive psychology is used in these cases and they are typically orchestrated by a single, connected attorney. You better hire a lawyer who is highly versed in these scams.