Legal Question in Family Law in Michigan

Re: Filing for full custody

If your son has a low income, he should contact a legal aid clinic. Many law schools provide legal aid inexpensively or sometimes for free. Check the yellow pages and nearby law schools. Unfortunately, attorneys in private practice do not have the luxury of working for free, even if we want to, since we have significant overhead expenses, cases cost money (travel, parking, etc.), payroll, student loans and on and on. Sometimes attorneys take pro bono cases when someone's rights are violated (usually a helpless person), but a custody issue as you describe it, however emotional and traumatic as it is for families, is not uncommon and probably does not rise to this level. If this is important to you and your family, you should hire and pay a good attorney to help you. Your money will be well spent. Otherwise, you and/or your son should be well-prepared and hope for the best, including a good judge (most are).

Good luck.

Re: Filing for full custody

Basically, what you are asking is for a lawyer to go to court on multiple occasions, get emersed in a trial, devote days upon days to your son's cause and to do so totally gratuitously. Would you go into the neighborhood mechanic and ask the mechanic to drop all other customers so that he could rebuild your engine simply because it failed without any cause on your part? Would you ask your doctor to drop other patients and devote days to your situation? Now, let's look at your situation. Your son married the wrong woman and has no concept that the situation created could be of his own making. You should also realize that this may be one of the most important things to happen in your life. And no one can come up with a dime to hire a lawyer? The judge has the responsibility to do what is best for the kids no matter if a lawyer is involved or not. Considering the reasoning of the adults in this case, those kids don't have a great head start in life.