Long Island and New York City Father’s Rights Lawyers
The attorneys at the Law Offices of Elliot Schlissel have extensive experience in protecting father’s rights. We actively litigate throughout the Metropolitan New York area, cases involving fathers seeking custody of their children. We obtain extensive parenting time (visitation) for fathers when the mother is the residential custodial parent of the children. We protect fathers from mothers who bad mouth them to their children and interfere with visitation. We bring proceedings for reductions of child support and spousal maintenance on behalf of fathers. We also will defend fathers in cases involving orders of protection in both the Family Courts and the Criminal Courts.
Father’s Rights, A Growing Phenomenon
Why do fathers need their rights protected? The answer is simple. Many fathers find the Family Court and the Supreme Court in matrimonial and family law matters favor mothers. The law in New York is clear, fathers are entitled to equal rights regarding custody and visitation with their children. However, sometimes fathers face uphill battles when they go to court.
Children’s Opinion In Custody Cases
The law in New York has changed. Law guardians are now called attorneys for the children. These attorneys are appointed to represent children in custody and visitation disputes. Prior to the change in the law, the law guardian’s responsibility was to argue for legal positions that were in the children’s best interest. It is now the attorney for the children’s responsibility to argue a child’s position. Should the children seek to live with the father instead of the mother, their attorney will make the court aware of the children’s opinion. In many cases in our office, teenage sons and daughters have been requesting that they reside with their father. This is helpful in custody disputes and proceedings to arrange custody. Courts take the child’s position into consideration when deciding who will receive custody of a child.
Experienced, Respected Attorneys
Our law firm is well known to our adversaries, the attorneys for the children and the courts. They are aware of the aggressive position we take in helping fathers assert their rights in New York.
Our unique experience and our long line of successes in representing fathers has made us a well known firm advocating for father’s rights. Call us for a free consultation. Our phones are monitored 24/7.
Visit Our focused Father’s Rights Website and Blog
- Fathers’ Rights
- Divorce
- Orders of Protection
- Child Custody / Visitation
- Changing Child Custody
- Child Support
- Family Court
- Spousal Maintenance (Alimony)
- Child Abuse & Neglect Proceedings
Contact us to discuss your case and our qualifications to represent you. Feel free to call toll free, any time, day or night, at 1-800-344-6431 or contact us at 718-350-2802. You can also reach us in Nassau County at 516-561-6645.
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