The best “Father’s Rights Attorney” for you in Los Angeles is an attorney that is not a self-proclaimed “Father’s Rights Attorney.” I have practiced law as a frontline family law and child abuse and neglect attorney for 11 years. When I hear the words “father’s rights,” I think of marketing...
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Minor’s Counsel: The Attorney for Your Child
“It is a double pleasure to deceive the deceiver.” Niccolo Machiavelli Involving a child in a custody and visitation hearing is avoided at all costs. Even though parents have a right to call their child to testify in custody hearings, in practice, it rarely happens. In high conflict custody cases, the...
What Can Be Done About DCFS? The State of the Los Angeles Foster Care System and the Grim Realities of COVID-19
“I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.” -Napoleon Bonaparte “When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.” -Maxim Gorky Everything comes easy to DCFS. All I can say is avoid DCFS and...
COVID-19-Family Law Custody & Visitation Problems, Solutions, And Realities
“There are decades when nothing happens-and there are weeks when decades happen.” Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin The courthouse doors have been closed to the non-essential public. The two super-heroes of the law, Lady Justice and Due Process are quarantined against their will. The Corona Virus or COVID-19 has paralyzed the...
“Meth Babies” in the California Dependency Court System
'The greatest souls are capable of the greatest vices as well as the greatest virtues, and those who go forward only very slowly can progress much further if they always keep the right path, than those who wander and run off of it." -Rene Descartes At the Law Offices of...
What Are the Best Tips for Hiring a Family Law Attorney in California?
At the Law Offices of Kyle R. Puro, our family law attorney in Long Beach, California knows that major life decisions unfold in our office, and none of those personal choices should be left to chance by partnering with a lawyer who is not the right fit for your needs....
DCFS Investigations and Preventing a Dependency Case Filing with Tips on Drug Testing for DCFS
"Begin the morning by saying to thyself, I shall meet with the busy-body, the ungrateful, arrogant, deceitful, envious, unsocial...” Marcus Aurelius- Meditations Having fought DCFS social workers in Los Angeles County for over a decade, I am never surprised by their arrogance and sometimes wicked nature. Some social workers are...
How to Get the Right Judge at the Edmund D. Edelman Children’s Court
Be prepared to walk into the Los Angeles Superior Court Edelman D. Edelman Children’s Court for the first time. This morning, I was waiting on the first floor lobby for the detention calendar. That is the list of children being brought into court for the first time and what courtroom...
Los Angeles County Ex Parte Procedures for Temporary Emergency Custody
I want to Ex Parte with You I am constantly receiving calls from parents who want to rush into court on an emergency basis to change custody. Generally, to establish or change a child custody order, it requires a parent to file a Request for Order (RFO) with California Judicial...