Private Investigator: Working The Child Custody Angle
Posted on: 5 January 2015
Working as a private investigator, you are always taking on interesting cases. Some of the more difficult ones, such as child custody and suspected abuse, present their challenges, but are also some of the most rewarding. If you shy away from these cases, maybe it is time to take a closer look and delve into them head first. Not only will your business expand and grow, but you will also reap the following emotional benefits for you and your clients.
Proving Parents Are Good People
In a child custody investigation, you may be hired by a parent or a social worker to prove that another parent is a safe and healthy option for the children involved. Your investigation always has to be handled with kid gloves because of the raw nerves left behind when someone is accused of abuse or neglect. However, when you can sufficiently prove that the accused parent or parents are not abusive or neglectful of their kids, you can bring about a good ending to a bad situation.
Proving Parents Are Not Good People
These cases are even harder because you do uncover the truth about abuse or neglect. Sometimes these parents are willing to change because they didn't know any better or their children are more important to them than previously reported or assumed. As the involved private investigator, you can assist the parents in these cases to turn things around for the better, or you can help prosecute them for their crimes against their children if they are unwilling to change. Either way, you are acting in the best interests of the children, and that has its own emotional and psychological rewards.
Leading the Judicial System to the Correct Decision
Without your efforts, the judicial system might favor the parent with more money, rather than good parenting skills. When you make the decision to work the child custody angle, you are helping dozens of parents fight for a better home life and not just for the parents who have more money. Sometimes it is the parents who work a low-income job who do better because they are there for their children, and your investigative business gives these good parents a chance to prove that they can manage parenting and hold down a job during a divorce.
Finding Parents Who Are In Absentia
Perhaps the most problematic and challenging of all cases crossing your desk are the ones where a parent has skipped town and there is no one to pay child support to the parent left behind. Either the county in which the remaining parent lives, or the remaining parent, will hire you to track down the in absentia parent. Then the judge can create a child support order and rule on the custody of the children in the case. You get paid, the parent gets what he or she needs to raise the children, and the work you have done helps the judge and the courts make the best decisions possible for the kids involved.
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