Custodial Duties

Custodial Duties

The toughest part of any divorce proceedings with families with children is the almost inevitable battle over who has primary custody. Nothing elicits more hatred and contempt and chaos into an otherwise amicable family than a custody battle that goes wrong for one of the parents.

In our justice system, it doesn’t always come out the right way. Sometimes, if one partner is able to secure a better lawyer or the judge has some sort of implicit bias, the less responsible and more vindictive parent can walk away with primary or full custody of one or more of the children.

Well, we hate to see the future of a bright child be taken away from them by the faults of our system of laws, and so today we’re going to be spotlighting one of the best custody lawyers you can find in Orange county, and perhaps all of southern California: Shuff Law Firm.

Operating since 1974, Shuff Law has seen nearly every case on the book and has the distinction of one of the best records for custody suits for any law firm in the area. This is testified to by their incredible 5-star ratings on Yelp, with many of the reviews specifically mentioning their incredible work on the most difficult custodial cases in the country.

Take, for example, Kristine K.’s review from Yelp regarding her difficult case facing her litigious attorney ex:

Highly recommend this firm. They came in late on a case I thought was resolved, but with a litigious ex who is also an attorney, I needed strong representation. Joe Shuff and Tamara Mortensen were persistent, effective, and helped resolve my child custody issues. I would definitely recommend them to any friends and family dealing with divorce or child custody issues.

Or Jeff H.’s lengthy review of their incredible professionalism here:

If you want results?  This is the firm and people that will get your Family/Divorce situation/case solved effectively, efficiently, and the best.  I used 2 other lawyers prior to coming to Tamara and her father and they completed what I needed to be done in a short period of time and without the BS associated with family courts.  Could I have been lucky with my situation? Maybe – BUT what I have learned in business is over communication, being straight forward (hearing the GOOD and the BAD), and relentless (like TAMARA was and is) is the best medicine to quell the sickness of this not so fun process of divorce.  I would AND have recommended this firm to EVERYONE on the planet.  Seriously the best people in the business and I would be more than happy to give you a personalized reference about how ecstatic I am that I was referred and used Shuff Law Firm to CLOSE my case swiftly.  Thank you Tamara for everything you did for me and my family – words cannot express to you how impressed and overly satisfied i am with all you did.  I know you will do the EXACT same for all of your clients in the future! JEFF

If you are facing a difficult custody battle and live in the southern California area, do yourself a favor and get the combined 50+ years of experience available at Shuff Law Firm. Your children’s welfare may be at stake, and we all know what we are willing to do for our kids:

Shuff Law Firm

(714) 834-0175

2107 N Broadway STE 301, Santa Ana, CA 92706

Let Go and Have Faith

Carrie had been hearing from her military husband less and less over the past two weeks. He’d flown out to training camp while Carrie patiently waited for him. It was near Valentine’s Day, and she was in the middle of putting together a care package when she came across a photo on her Facebook timeline. It was of him having dinner with another couple, but there was another woman sitting beside him, with her arm around it. There were two checks. First of all, why was her husband out for dinner when he said he was in training camp? Second of all, Carrie googled the name of the woman who had her arm around her husband; she was a convicted felon.

Carrie immediately texted her husband and asked him what was going on. He did not reply for two days, until she received a call from her husband informing her that they had no future together and that he had been cheating on her.

Carrie called her best friend Nancy and broke down. “HE SAID THAT HE JUST MET HER TWO WEEKS AGO AND THAT THEY’VE BEEN CHEATING TOGETHER. HE SAID I WAS NOT FOR HIM, THAT I WAS NEVER THE ONE FOR HIM.

How could he do this to her?

Nancy: “Carrie, listen, I’m here for you. We’re going to get through this.”
Carrie: “I have been the perfect military wife for the past five years and he decided to throw it all away for a hardcore druggie he just met?! He knew this was going to happen! Why was I so stupid?! How could I have not seen this coming? Why?!”
Nancy: “We are going to get through this. Don’t blame yourself. This isn’t your fault. He is a terrible human being and that has nothing to do with you.”

Unfortunately, every year in the U.S., thousands of people find themselves blindsided, lied to, and cheated on in broken marriages that result in divorces. Carrie, like any devoted spouse, had built her life around her husband and their young daughter. She was a wife who was committed in every sense of the word and did everything she could to support her husband’s career while raising their child, as if she were a single mother for 200 days out of the year. But now, it looked like Carrie was going to become a single mother for real. There was no way she would let her husband have sole custody of her daughter. How could he? His schedule would never allow him to be around and she feared that he would leave them in the care of the law-breaking home-wrecker.

Carrie looked at a photo of her daughter when she was a toddler and wept even harder.

Photo of Woman and Her Daughter Laughing

Luckily, her friend Nancy remained calm and stayed on the phone with her for the rest of the night while researching the best options for Carrie to legally separate from her soon-to-be ex-husband while gaining custody of her daughter.

It turns out that there are four main types of custody: sole custody, joint custody, shared custody, and split custody. In that case, she needed to find Carrie a custody attorney who would be able to fight for sole custody. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), a custody attorney acts as an advocate by presenting evidence to convince the court to grant their client child custody. She came across Shuff Law Firm, family attorney based in Santa Ana. She was delighted to read their reviews from couples who had found the right legal representation through marital separation, making the process smooth and amicable rather than drawn out and tortuous. She assured Carrie that everything was going to be okay.

Shuff Law Firm
2634, 2107 N Broadway #301, Santa Ana, CA 92706, United States