Category Archives: Visitation
Understanding Negative Gatekeeping in Custody Cases
[video width="640" height="360" mp4="https://www.edgarfamilylaw.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/videoplayback.mp4"][/video] Understanding Negative Gatekeeping in Custody Cases In custody disputes, parental conflicts can sometimes escalate to harmful behaviors that…
Getting a Grip on Your Emotions: The Key to Helping Your Children Thrive During Divorce
Getting a Grip on Your Emotions: The Key to Helping Your Children Thrive During Divorce Divorce is never easy, especially when children…
Divorce Poison: How to Protect Your Family from Bad-Mouthing and Brainwashing – A Review by Edgar & Dow, Expert Custody Lawyers in Riverside County
Divorce Poison: How to Protect Your Family from Bad-Mouthing and Brainwashing – A Review by Edgar & Dow, Expert Custody Lawyers in…
Mastering Co-Parenting Communication: The BIFF Method for High-Conflict Situations
Mastering Co-Parenting Communication: The BIFF Method for High-Conflict Situations Co-parenting can be one of the most challenging aspects of a custody arrangement,…
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A Must-Read for Anyone Facing Family Law Challenges
The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce: A Must-Read for Anyone Facing Family Law Challenges Divorce is more than just the legal dissolution of…
Building a Stronger Family After Divorce: Lessons from The Good Divorce
Building a Stronger Family After Divorce: Lessons from The Good Divorce Divorce is never easy, but it doesn't have to be destructive.…
Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Letting Go of Conflict After a Difficult Divorce
Co-Parenting Survival Guide: Letting Go of Conflict After a Difficult Divorce For parents navigating the aftermath of divorce, co-parenting presents one of…
Co-Parenting with a Toxic Ex: How to Protect Your Relationship with Your Kids
Co-Parenting with a Toxic Ex: How to Protect Your Relationship with Your Kids Navigating co-parenting is challenging under the best circumstances, but…
How to Protect Your Child Visitation Rights in California? 2025
When a parent believes that there is even a small chance their child is not safe with their other parent, it can…
“Full Custody” & What That Means in a California Divorce
Many parents come into our law office with the request that they get “full custody” of their children in a divorce. In our…
Parental Alienation in California: What It Is & How to Prove It
No parent wants to see their relationship with their children suddenly begin to dissolve—especially if it’s for no apparent reason. It may…
Divorced Parents Find It Difficult to Resolve Problems in Isolation
For months of the pandemic, courts were closed, which left co-parents with difficult choices: would they have to mediate and resolve problems…
Grandmother Retains Custody Despite Out-of-State Father’s Request
In this case, filed on August 7 but certified for publication on August 28, the Second District affirmed a Los Angeles County…
Mother Granted Custody of Her Child After Year of Foster Care
In this case, the Fourth District affirmed an Orange County juvenile court’s order granting M’s section 388 petition returning three-year-old I.B. to…
Can Grandparents Win Visitation Based on the Parent’s Custody?
In this partially-published opinion, in which Grandfather “was subject to a 2015 restraining order requiring him to have no contact with his…
At What Age Can a Child Decide Which Parent to Live With?
If you’re divorcing and you have children, then you’re facing a challenging situation: which parent will your child or children live with? This is…
Can You Deny Visitation If Child Support Is Not Paid?
Family litigation is complex because it involves emotional distress and even disputes. One of the most common issues that occur between divorced…
How to Modify Visitation Orders in California
Once a judge makes a custody or visitation order, it is likely that parents will want to change their visitation orders. In…
How Does Domestic Abuse Affect Child Custody?
If you have been accused or were a victim of domestic violence, there is a high chance that it will affect your child custody situation.…
What is domestic violence? A series on Dr. Bradley’s sourcebook (part 8) Dynamics of the Abusive Relationship
Dynamics of the Abusive Relationship Just as it's impossible to make progress while working with sweeping generalization in any other area of…
Recent ruling on domestic violence and restraining orders
Spousal Abuse In Fischer v Fischer. (March 18, 2018) In affirmance, First District holds wife did not intentionally or recklessly cause husband…
Child Visitation
In Ed H. v. Ashley C. (August 24, 2017) In affirmance, Fourth District holds that great-grandparents lack standing to seek visitation with great-grandchildren…
How to Keep Your Child Custody Arrangement Civil
When you have children and are facing divorce, a major milestone in the whole process is coming to an agreement regarding child custody.…
Helping Children Through Socially Awkward Situations After Your Divorce
Divorce can lead to awkward social situations for adults, but it doesn't stop there. It can cause children to feel socially awkward,…
Trial Topic this week: Where should we do the child custody exchange?
Many people going through a custody case in court are often considering where they should do the child custody exchange. One might think that…
Helping Your Children Cope with a Disappointing Ex-Spouse
Joint custody following a divorce often results in painful frustration in both you and your child when the other spouse fails to…
8 Ways to Improve Your Co-Parenting Situation
You and your now ex-spouse likely don’t get along and probably have not been getting along for quite some time now. It’s…
How Children Understand Divorce
In Laura Broadwell’s Parents blog, entitled “Age-by-Age Guide to What Children Understand About Divorce,” she breaks down the normative behavioral patterns in children in…
Tips to Make Joint Custody Work
Kate Bayless’s “9 Rules to Make Joint Child Custody Work” Kate Bayless’s article consults work from renowned clinical psychologists and researchers of…
Hardship Deductions in California Child Support Cases
People think it is automatic – you have other children and so you get a hardship for those kids in calculating child support,…
Pitbulls and Child Visitation Rights
I was once in the courtroom and saw a very reasonable judge make a very unreasonable ruling: “Until you get rid of…
DCSS Has Attorneys…..Do You?
DCSS Has Attorneys Representing Them, So Should You! “It is quite simple….., you just input the numbers in a computer program and…
I Want to Change Custody
Many times parents want to change primary custody of the children as opposed to modifying visitation. Statutory and case law makes changing custody much more difficult than…
Attorney Jeremy Roark
The Edgar & Dow is proud and excited to announce that Attorney Jeremy Roark will take over the day to day operations of…
What Is the UCCJEA?
The purpose of the UCCJEA is to allow states to determine which states has jurisdiction regarding custody and visitation and for the court to determine who…
Can A Party Stop A Divorce?
If one party files for a dissolution of marriage, the other party can not stop it unless there is a mutual agreement for…
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