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CheckedOutFamilyLawyers.com is the best way to find child custody lawyers and child custody attorneys, along with state child custody laws and legal information.

To find a checked out child custody lawyer, enter your city and state, above, and click "Find My Lawyer."

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Child Custody

Child custody concerns two distinct but closely related issues: physical custody and legal custody.
Physical custody concerns where the child will actually live (with which parent). Legal custody involves a determination of which custodial person has the right to make decisions on behalf of the child. A court may award joint custody (where both parents share custody of a child), which can be either legal or physical custody. When the child resides primarily with one parent, the non-custodial parent is generally given visitation rights. Child custody can be decided in cases of divorce, as well as in cases where one or both parents are absent, dead, in prison, unfit or dangerous to a child's welfare. A court will take into account the "best interests of the child" when making its decision. Each state has its own requirements as to the conditions and circumstances under which child custody may be granted. Since issues related to child custody are determined by reference to state law, and because state laws on child custody vary, it is critically important to find the right child custody lawyer.

Finding your Child Custody lawyer

CheckedOutFamilyLawyers.com provides the best way to find child custody lawyers and child custody attorneys, along with child custody laws and information.

To find the right child custody lawyer for you, it's critical to use a method that makes sense. Two common methods make little sense:

Advertisements & Attorney Listing Services …

Is the child custody lawyer with the biggest ad in the phone book the best child custody lawyer for you? Not likely. It's easy to see why you might not find the attorney who's right for you through an advertisement.

How about services that merely list attorneys, often on websites? Are they any better? Probably not. Listing services are typically just advertisements. Like the phone book, cash is usually the only criteria for a service to list a family lawyer.

Ask yourself: Do listing services screen attorneys in any way?

Do they check …

• References of other attorneys?
• References of former clients?
• If a family lawyer has a disciplinary history?
• If a family lawyer is properly licensed?
• If family law a significant part of a lawyer's practice?

Listing services typically fail to answer any of these questions. They simply leave it up to you.

Client Referrals …

Client (non-lawyer) referrals usually make little sense. Why? Because clients rarely know enough about the process of practicing law to understand what their child custody lawyer actually did for them. Or to understand if their child custody lawyer did a quality job for them compared to other child custody lawyers.

Could they have achieved a better result with another attorney? Were the results achieved by the child custody lawyer typical for that lawyer?

It's not that client referrals can't be helpful, but they should be only one of several criteria that a person uses to hire an attorney.

The CheckedOutFamilyLawyers.com Method

CheckedOutFamilyLawyers.com provides the best way to find a quality, prescreened child custody lawyer in your area. What do we mean by prescreened? We mean that we do the hard part. It's free, easy, and confidential.

We have a lawyer who works for us check out family lawyers for you, by doing out the following:

(1). We make sure family law is a substantial part of the lawyer's practice
(2). We make sure the family lawyers are properly licensed
(3). We make sure the family lawyers have no public record of professional discipline
(4). We speak to three former clients of the family lawyer who have had favorable experiences
(5). We speak to three other attorneys who speak highly of the family lawyer and their expertise in child custody law

You can do some of what we do yourself. You can use our How to Check Out Lawyers page to check out a specific child custody lawyer who you are already thinking about using. You can also use the links to check out any other lawyer. Alternatively, you can use CheckedOutFamilyLawyers.com to learn more about verified child custody lawyers who we’ve already checked out.