Legal Question in Family Law in California

mother in california fled with our child. da assisted in retrieving her after 1 1/2 years. mother had to get $10,000.00 bond due to flight risk. i have custody of daughter. mother has made several aligation in different countys from 2008 t0 pressent day with CPS, police, supervising visitation agencies where she has to to be watched. she has a pattern of doing this and some how courts still let it happen. all aligations were litigated and came up unfounded. she has now filed restraining order in la county while our case file is in transition from San Diego to San bernardino court. la county set the restraing due to caution and no file to look at for history. tranfer of file could take up to six months and she due to go to school now. basicly file is in limbow. LA will not release until case is in san bernardino and she has a case number to release to. san bernardino will not set a case number untill file arrives, & san diego will be back logged for at least six months. can we go to cash bond in san diego were file is still at? they have no pictures of bruses, no athority has been called. phycologist she is supposidly seeing has made no reports, filed no actions with cps and no authoritys have come to knock my door down. i am beside my self and just dont know what to do anymore.

would greatly appreciate some direction thank you.


Asked on 8/05/10, 6:41 pm

2 Answers from Attorneys
Rhonda Ellifritz Law Offices of Rhonda Ellifritz

I think an attorney may be able to get somewhere with this matter. Once it goes to hearing, I would request a 730 custody evaluation and get this thing over with. This is very expensive, but with ongoing serious issues such as this, I don't see too many other choices. The courts use the evaluations to do the kind of investigation they simply have no time to do. It takes a few months and involves meeting with the parents individually, and with the child, then parent and child. You need some peace and so does your child.

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Answered on 8/10/10, 7:21 pm

It was a mistake to transfer the file from county to county with such a problem person on the other side. The longer it takes for you to get a competent attorney on this, the more it will cost once you face the fact you can't handle this and do get an attorney.

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Answered on 8/11/10, 3:28 pm


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