Father Fights: Wins Sole Physical Custody and Change of Domicile For His Minor Child

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After enduring a bitter divorce case, our client decided to give his ex-wife a chance at having joint custody of the parties’ daughter, notwithstanding his qualms to the contrary. Shortly thereafter, ... his ex-wife began dealing with a host of vices and issues, including inappropriate conduct exhibited toward the minor child in question by her son from another relationship. While this was pending, our client received an outstanding employment opportunity to serve as an executive for a Fortune 500 company, albeit in Indiana. He then hired our firm once again in a post-judgment setting to not only seek sole physical custody of his daughter due to the changed circumstances, but to also seek a change of domicile and obtain court permission to relocate his daughter’s residency several hundred miles away. Again, after a much contested trial that lasted over numerous days spread over several months, we were able to secure a favorable verdict for our client. He not only obtained sole physical custody of his child, but he was also granted permission to immediately relocate her to the State of Indiana, a venue that he had already been forced to relocate to from Macomb County while the matter was actually being litigated. Shortly after this case was concluded, we obtained an identical result in favor of a non-custodial father who sought sole physical custody and a change of domicile of his children to the State of Florida. The complexity and emotions involved in cases such as these are of the grandest scale, and the degree of preparation and advocacy that is needed for favorable results is something that we believe our firm routinely provides to all of its clients which is not necessarily exhibited by other local practitioners. Although these custody matters involved fathers, we have represented hundreds of mothers and fathers in virtually every type of domestic case imaginable.