Orange County Child Custody Lawyer
How to Get Custody in Orange County, California
When you are seeking custody of your child, the best opportunity that you may have at a fair arrangement would be to hire a professional child custody attorney. An Orange County custody attorney who is familiar with the principles, laws and state regulations regarding child custody can meet with you and discuss the circumstances that surround your child custody case. The family law courts typically award joint physical and legal custody to both parents in the event that they feel that the parents can both provide for the child equally. Things such as a parent’s financial abilities, emotional support and communication skills with the other parent will always be looked at very carefully by the family law courts in order to make a final decision on custody that would be in the “best interests of the child”.
If one parent can prove that the other parent is unfit due to a mental disorder, alcohol addiction, drug addiction, or for any other reason that parent may then be awarded sole custody. Otherwise, the courts will rule on whether or not one or both parents will receive physical custody, legal custody and/or joint custody. The different types of custody are very specific as to a parent’s rights and depending upon the custody awarded, what decisions that parent can make in regards to their child’s future. A child custody arrangement, however, is never set in stone and can be modified at a later date at either parent’s request by their Orange County family law attorney.
In California, child custody may be decided upon by the following factors:
- Age and sex of the child
- Emotional bond between parent and child
- Parent’s ability to provide shelter, food, clothing, medical care
- Mental and physical health of the child
- Mental and physical health of the parent
- Lifestyle of the parent
- Child’s routine (school, religious, extracurricular, home)
- Quality of child’s current education
- Any history of child abuse
- Parent’s ability to provide guidance to the child
- Emotional impact changing the status quo may have on the child
- Parental and living preference of the child if he/she is at least 12 years of age
- Parent who will best maintain a good relationship between the child and the other parent
Orange County Family Law Attorney
If you are facing child custody issues it is very important to protect your parental rights. By hiring an Orange County child custody lawyer you can start protecting your legal rights immediately. As a family law attorney, I serve clients in Orange County and Riverside County, California, including Orange, Santa Ana, Irvine, Anaheim, Yorba Linda, Newport Beach, La Habra and Anaheim Hills. Please contact attorney Kevin B. Gibbs to schedule a free case consultation regarding your child custody case today.
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