Child Custody and Visitation

When dealing with child custody, it is important to minimize the suffering and shock that the children might experience. It is a very serious change for a child in custody of his or her parents to suddenly have to see one of those parents only once a week during a monitored transition or at a neutral place of exchange. The Oklahoma City lawyers at Mazaheri Law Firm concentrate on Oklahoma custody law, divorce law and all other types of family law to help you find a fitting resolution to your case. Some of the custody changes you may experience if you try to fight your custody battle without the seasoned skill of a Oklahoma family attorney are:

Supervised visitation – parent cannot be alone with the child and must have court ordered supervision
Neutral place of exchange – a child must be exchanged at a public/neutral location
Monitored transition – a third person must be present when you are picking up your child from his or her other parent.
Sole custody instead of Joint custody – According to 43 O.S. 110.1,” It is the policy of this state to assure that minor children have frequent and continuing contact with parents who have shown the ability to act in the best interests of their children and to encourage parents to share in the rights and responsibilities of rearing their children after the parents have separated or dissolved their marriage, provided that the parents agree to cooperate and that domestic violence, stalking, or harassing behaviors as defined in Section 109 of this title are not present in the parental relationship. To effectuate this policy, if requested by a parent, the court may provide substantially equal access to the minor children to both parents at a temporary order hearing, unless the court finds that shared parenting would be detrimental to the child.” An attorney can help you maintain joint custody, if custody is at dispute.
Guardian Ad Litem – a supervised guardian for the children usually paid for by both parties to investigate the best interests of the child/children in the home.
Custody Plan – what will visitation, summers, and expenses for the children look like and who will be responsible
Standard Visitation – check out the current standard visitation schedule through our resources page.
Mediation – check out information about alternative dispute resolution and early settlement mediation on our resources page.

To avoid any sort of traumatic custody change to your children and to ensure that your divorce case or custody case goes as smoothly as possible, it is in your best interests to contact a competent and understanding Oklahoma family law attorney or child custody lawyer at the Mazaheri Law Firm.