Brian Parker

Family law court case stories are typically long and winding. The devil lives between the facts and the court's ability to understand and grasp those facts. Many rulings and outcomes in family cases are a cornucopia of good, bad, ugly, the unexplainable and the beautiful. Depending on your attorne...y and his/her work and costs, the color of your life following a hearing is sometimes just another shade of ash you didn't know existed. For me and my child, that changed with Brian Parker. I had literally given up hoping my child's life could be better 11 years into a permanent parenting plan that has me as the visiting parent with little to no decision-making rights. By no action of my own, I had to find some one to help me with my child's mother's service of a motion a few months ago. I met with Brian Parker for 45 minutes to discuss the matter. He had already read some of the case history and evaluated the merits of her motion, told me what the questions before the court would be and would NOT be and then told me what his approach would be in handling those questions in court. I hired him on the spot. Not only did the hearing of that motion go very well for me and my child, based on Brian's representation and guidance, the court took the unusual move of ordering that custody be looked at more closely. While preparing for that next step, my child's mother tried to do an end-run (in a different court) in an effort to evade a potential change of custody. I was not served with that action. I found out about it very late. Brian Parker took that matter on very quickly and, with his appearance and argument, that matter was set aside at hearing by that court. Essentially, that matter isn't ever going to be heard. A week ago, an exparte motion became necessary to protect my child. Brian was able to get necessary relief for my child on that matter. Then a day or so later, opposing counsel went back in to exparte court to request a modification of that emergency order (removing a protection therein). Brian successfully argued against it; the protection original order remains in full effect. Brian's approach is, more or less, make peace, not war. But it is also, if you have fight, then fight hard and fight justly. He has done that from the first moment. I don't want or need "wins" but my child needs a better life. For the first time in a decade, I see that happening (at a time I thought had passed years ago). I have to conclude, Brian Parker is the difference.