The first edition of Win Your Child Custody War was the first child custody book on the market in 1992. It has been revised and updated more often than any other book. Win Your Child Custody War is and expensive book, and by far the current edition is the most complete and well-written book on custody issues. Win Your Child Custody War covers more topics than any other book including: When and how the court will listen to your child's wishes. Proper support documentation for the child's choice. Your home or work computer and their lawyer. Options for reducing the cost of your case. Ways to make your child kidnap resistant, and able to contact you. Information a child must have to escape. How to prove the lies and identify the liar. Lies: theirs, yours and the biggest lie of all. Important Admit or Deny sworn statements. Identify and control your own problem behaviors. Child support: paying, collecting, and changing it. Seven Private Investigator Assignments and Final Reports. Determine who you can talk to and what you can tell them. How much money a custody case costs and when it is spent. Why and how to keep a contact log book and when to use it. Contempt of Court Filing and Answer to Contempt Charges. When and how to depose someone to get the results you need. Ten Evaluator reports, Psychological evaluations and Home studies. Voluntary Relinquishment of Parental rights and Stepparent Adoption. How to prepare for psychological evaluations and home study reports. Grounds for Involuntary Termination/Relinquishment of Parental Rights. How your case can affect your job and how your job can affect your case. Child's Affidavit of Preference or Choice of Managing Conservator example. Dangers of cell phones, email, internet, social networking, texting and blogs. How smoking, dental neglect, drugs, abandonment and abuse affect your case.
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10 star value for usable information. This is by far the most complete and well-written book on custody issues and the copy I have will be given to the local library as a reference book, because I think it is a must read for anyone going through a custody fight. Thankfully I am still married thirty-five plus years and have never had to deal with the issue, but have helped a number of men gain custody of their children. If there is one thing I do not like about the book, it would be the cover photograph where the little boy appears to be dressed as a small U S marine. Having family in the military and in a real life and death war, I think a photograph of a variety of children from different ethnic backgrounds would have made a better cover. 04/0 8/ 03 Top 50 Reviewer motherlodebeth, from Sierras of California. I was doing ok (not great) during the day. Facing the [stuff] they threw at me was easier when mixed in with seeing my kids, my job and other responsibilities. Nights were long, painful and left me exhausted. If I was finally able get to sleep, I would wake in a few hours in a panic or with their latest assault eating at my guts. It would be different if I could see my kids sleeping safe in their beds. I never felt so helpless in my life. I am a good, no, a great dad. I love my kids. I shouldn't have to be a part-time dad. They need a full-time dad. I think this book is going to help me show the judge who I am and how much I can contribute to their lives. Found this book on Amazon at 4a.m. and felt better just having ordered it. It has helped so much that I can get to sleep. On the rare occasion that I do wake up worried, Win Your Child Custody War is my Midnight Companion and I can always find something to calm me by giving me a plan of action for the next day. Examples of what other guys faced and how they handled themselves are valuable. Seeing the results (good and bad) of the actions I would have taken has given me a real heads-up. I don't feel helpless any more. I think this is the next best thing to having a great lawyer in your pocket 24/7. Borrow, steal or buy a copy. --Patrick Devine, Carmillo, CA Choosing to give my ex-husband custody of our very young children was the most difficult decisions I have ever made. Later battles for visitation rights and custody have been the most painful events of my life. I have endured restraining orders based on lies, long distance visitation, and the psychological devastation of being separated from my children. My case went to the worst of extremes when my lawyer resigned, in order to testify on my behalf. Because of the injustice of the handling of the restraining order, my case was used as the example that changed a school's non-custodial parent pickup policy. Along the way, I made many of the mistakes common to parents in my situation and learned many lessons the hard way. I wish I had Win Your Child Custody War when I began those battles; the information, advice and warnings would have made the battle far easier. Win Your Child Custody War provides the legal details and information a parent needs before and after hiring a lawyer, detective, or even a psychologist. Win Your Child Custody War sets realistic expectations, includes straight talk with no mollycoddling, and lots of sound advice. Logs, affidavits, and home studies are covered with meticulous detail and with sound examples. As the author cautions, however, readers also need to follow the advice of their lawyer over the book. For example, in the extreme case of a parent who does not want to visit the child and would stop harassment if not required to pay child support, the author suggests: You could get counseling, legal assistance or return the money to the other parent, when you get it from the court each month. I know from personal experience that you may --Anne P. Mitchel --Patrick Devine, Carmillo, CA
About the Author
Charlotte Hardwick has written 6 child custody books to date. Hardwick initially shared her personal experience and built on it with the accumulated knowledge from hundreds of cases and thousands of other parent s experiences. Every conceivable aspect of the child custody wars are explored and explained while guiding the reader toward a powerful strategy. If you don't have her books and this book in particular, you are likely to be overmatched; indeed if your attorney doesn't have this book, your attorney is likely to be outmatched. In fact, I would say that the first thing you should do after reading the book yourself, is buy a copy for your attorney and somehow persuade him or her to open the pages and to start reading--anywhere in the book. I promise you your attorney will learn facts, ideas, and strategies new to him or her. The expanse and depth of the material presented here quite frankly amazed me. This extensive tome constitutes an entire course not only in child custody disputes but in human psychology, parenting, and the law itself. The mass of information and the sharp, sound guidance contained herein really amount to a post graduate course in child custody disputes. You will be much impressed with Hardwick's assertive, no-nonsense writing style and organization that managed to painlessly inform while emphasizing a positive approach. Titles include: Win Your Child Custody War, Child Custody Case Management Forms, Witness Guide for Deposition and Court, Killers & Boosters for Child Custody Cases, Dear Judge, (Children's Letters to the Judge), Help and Where to Find it (out of print).
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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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Win Your Child Custdoy War 12th Edition. This is definitely not another hyped up child custody/divorce manual. Win Your Child Custody War, has plenty of content. The kind you go to the book store, library, internet, parent support groups, read boxes of court cases, attend legal factfinding seminars and hire the best attorney you can afford, to get. The Table of Contents and Index, list the topics covered in all the other books on child custody. Additional topics which many other parents have faced and may be useful in your case are identified and explained. The suggestions and information in the book are well thought-out and precise. Use the examples as indicators so you can watch the other parent and their cohorts for patterns of behavior signaling poor decision making that could affect you children negatively.
This book will help you guard against vicious attack whether you are a mom or a dad. A divorce and child custody chronological order relating to how events usually occur are included. Authority and precedence from family courts across the nation are listed. This is no "quick read" at a bookstore. Compare the Table of Contents of Win with any 10 other available books. If you need defense from dirty tricks, protection from your own attorney and solid information, Win Your Child Custody War will level the playing field for you. Highly recommended.
This book will help you guard against vicious attack whether you are a mom or a dad. A divorce and child custody chronological order relating to how events usually occur are included. Authority and precedence from family courts across the nation are listed. This is no "quick read" at a bookstore. Compare the Table of Contents of Win with any 10 other available books. If you need defense from dirty tricks, protection from your own attorney and solid information, Win Your Child Custody War will level the playing field for you. Highly recommended.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
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If you are involved in a child custody dispute, then I feel you would certainly benefit from this resouce.
It is rather expensive and long - over 750 pages. However it covers a huge amount of information. But considering the hourly rate of most divorce/custody attorneys, you will probably save the cost of the book a few times over.
As the author states, the primary audicence for this book is "the parent who is serious about winning and maintaining custody of a child. ... A child custody war rarely involves only the children and the parents."
The child custody war will more than likely be extremely expensive in terms of money and emotional scars.
The book is broken down into to 43 chapters and each chapter has an extensive listing of the topics covered in that chapter. There is a glossary of terms, an Appendix covering interesting cases and a very extensive index.
In addition to all the resources, there is some good advice in the book. All too often, custody battles are filled with emotion and it is very easy for the emotions of the parents to trump the best interest of the child. The book does a good job of pointing out the dangers of putting the children in the direct battle path between the parents.
If you are going through or will be going through a custody battle, I would highly recommend you acquire this book. I also recommend you read the book Dear Judge to fully understand the battle from the child's point of view.
It is rather expensive and long - over 750 pages. However it covers a huge amount of information. But considering the hourly rate of most divorce/custody attorneys, you will probably save the cost of the book a few times over.
As the author states, the primary audicence for this book is "the parent who is serious about winning and maintaining custody of a child. ... A child custody war rarely involves only the children and the parents."
The child custody war will more than likely be extremely expensive in terms of money and emotional scars.
The book is broken down into to 43 chapters and each chapter has an extensive listing of the topics covered in that chapter. There is a glossary of terms, an Appendix covering interesting cases and a very extensive index.
In addition to all the resources, there is some good advice in the book. All too often, custody battles are filled with emotion and it is very easy for the emotions of the parents to trump the best interest of the child. The book does a good job of pointing out the dangers of putting the children in the direct battle path between the parents.
If you are going through or will be going through a custody battle, I would highly recommend you acquire this book. I also recommend you read the book Dear Judge to fully understand the battle from the child's point of view.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
I read all the reviews and carefully considered the negative comments about the first 11 editions. I ordered Win Your Child Custody War, 12th Edition. I was pleased to see all the problems had been corrected and the subjects expanded. I had exhausted all the good advice available to me and was at the point of giving up. This book made all the difference. It truly ain't over, till it's over. If you are experiencing or expecting a rough ride through the court system, you definitely need this book.
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