child custody

Sure you can do it without an attorney. You can remove your appendix without a doctor, too, but you may get a result you don't like. Since you don't indicate why you aren't the custodian of your son, I'm not sure how to answer this. If you were divorced and your wife was granted custody, file a motion to modify the allocation of parental rights in the original divorce proceeding and establish that there has been a change in circumstances since the last allocation of parental rights and that it is in the child's best interest for you to be the custodian. If you were never married to the mother of the child, file a complaint for an allocation of parental rights with your local juvenile court, or, if the matter was already adjudicated once, file a motion if that prior proceeding, being prepared to prove the same case as specified above.

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