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Orange County Child Custody and Visitation Attorney

The Law Offices of Wendy L.C. Fountain, A PC, provides sensitive and informed guidance to clients involved in child custody matters. Visitation and child custody concerns can cast an additional shadow over the already stressful issues of divorce or separation, while potentially also putting needless stress on your children. That is why our child custody attorney believes in protecting your rights while upholding your child’s best interests at all times. From our family law firm in Orange, California, our child custody lawyer represents parents in Orange County and surrounding areas.

California Child Custody Law

California child custody laws prefer a joint custody arrangement that is in the child’s best interests, as well as creating equal sharing of the children between both parents. However, what may serve the best interests of your child may not necessarily be a strictly equal split of time, but one that makes the most sense for your child’s emotional, educational, and other needs.

There are two fundamental types of child custody: legal custody, which is the typically shared authority of both parents to make decisions affecting the child’s health, education, religion, and other major life choices and physical custody, which determines the child’s residence as well as the child visitation schedule.

It is our ultimate goal to help you achieve a child custody solution that is a lasting solution that everyone can live with. Our family lawyer, Wendy Fountain, works to help you negotiate a child custody arrangement that fully addresses legal and physical custody, a visitation or parenting time schedule and other important issues, such as child support. However, when an agreement cannot be reached, our firm stands ready to represent your interests in trial and prepare you for the child custody evaluation that will likely be ordered by the court to aid in the decision.

In addition to representing your interests in a child custody dispute, we also represent parents involved in child custody investigations, defending their rights against investigations brought about by a private child psychologist, the county’s Child Custody Mediation and Investigation Services, or in a time of emergency or suspected abuse.

Child Custody Modifications

Our child custody lawyer has extensive experience helping clients obtain and defend against modifications to child custody or visitation either at the time of their divorce proceeding or post-judgment. In either instance, we help ensure that your rights to your child are fully upheld in court.

Move Away Cases

A frequent but distressing inevitability during or after divorce actions and custody disputes is when one parent moves out of state. If the move disrupts an established child custody arrangement, the case can be involved and difficult for both parents and children involved and almost always implicates a modification to an existing child custody order and an accompanying child custody investigation conducted by the family court.

Whether you have concerns about visitation and child custody matters, or are looking to modify a joint custody or other child custody agreement, attorney Wendy Fountain will be there for you. Please read more about child visitation and child custody on our Family Law Practice Center.

We believe in offering you alternatives, suggestions, and recommended plans so that you can make the best decision for your family. Contact our Orange County law firm for skilled guidance in your child custody dispute, investigation, or modification.