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1 Answer | Asked in Family Law and Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: If I do not bring my infant to his mom .. I'm the father. Can I get in trouble. What is my rights

My son is not safe around his mom. I wanna know can I keep him til we go to court. Or will I be charged for kidnapping

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Jun 8, 2021

Hire an attorney to file for Emergency Custody before she does. If there is no current custody judgment, then you cannot be arrested for kidnapping.

1 Answer | Asked in Divorce and Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: What do I do if my ex is refusing my time for father's day?

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Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Jun 6, 2021

Get her to put it in an email or text. Then print it and hire a lawyer to file contempt.

1 Answer | Asked in Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: Louisiana vacated my children’s mother’s rights what does that mean
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on May 27, 2021

It means she can't see them and has no financial responsibility for them, but you do.

1 Answer | Asked in Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: My daughter's father (we were never married) left the state over 3 years ago (2018). He made a few half-hearted attempts

to visit her on weekends when he lived in a nearby state. Then he moved across the country and didn't continue contact (end of 2018). In the spring of 2019, I enrolled in Medicaid for my Daughter which triggered the state to initiate a support order. He saw her once on his trip to go to court... View More

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on May 21, 2021

If you and your daughter had not had dinner with him a week ago, I would tell you to hire an adoption lawyer to do the intrafamily adoption by your husband. But there has to be no contact from him and no support for six months to do that.

Now your only choice is to hire a custody lawyer...
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2 Answers | Asked in Child Custody, Divorce, Civil Rights and Domestic Violence for Louisiana on
Q: My attorney filed this exparte art 3945 in divorce petition on April 29, 2020. Courts did not give me date til 6/22/20

I still have not seen or spoke to my little girl in over a year. Courts still did not see or hear any of my evidence to protect my child from her father and his son, mother, daughter who all abused my child.

My husband now has my little girl brainwashed... forcing her to lie about me to... View More

Randy Bryan Ligh
Randy Bryan Ligh
answered on May 17, 2021

I do not think you asked a question in your post and also, you have an attorney. You need to ask your questions to your attorney.

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1 Answer | Asked in Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: I want to shorten the agreed visitation time because my child is not being well taken care of.

The agreed visitation time is two weeks due to the father work schedule. The recent visit took a turn for the worse and I saw how sick and unkept ,without my knowledge, his heat rashes and eczema has progressed, as well as a peaking cold. His father left him to visits his girlfriend and left the... View More

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on May 11, 2021

1) Get your child a Covid vaccination if over age 12,

2) if you have a judgment, you will have to hire an attorney to change it and can be held in contempt if you don't follow it in the mean time.

3) if you don't have a judgment, hire a custody lawyer to get one Nd you can...
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1 Answer | Asked in Family Law and Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: Can I move out of my house at 17 because of my circumstance.

I have a job, i have a place to live, and i will be graduating this summer. The police are investigating my house because of molestation and abuse, done on me and my brother. This house is causing me to go into a bad depression and I hate living here. I am diagnosed with PTSD from my abusive... View More

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 30, 2021

You need a friend or relative to file for custody of you.

1 Answer | Asked in Adoption, Child Custody and Family Law for Louisiana on
Q: Can adoptive mom give a child back to birth mom after 11 years of adoption the birth mom has never met the child

The lady adopted the little girl who is 11 and her brother who is 13 both special needs due to drug use during pregnancy bow she says shr cant handle them both and wants the birth mom to take the little girl back the adoptive mom is rich and the birth mom is only five months sober this time she has... View More

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 27, 2021

No you can't return a child like a puppy to the pound.

1 Answer | Asked in Family Law and Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: These allegations against me were unknown to me and from my research they were supposed to let me know that in writing.

I had no idea so that makes it qualify for appeal.

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 26, 2021

Can't tell from your post what the question is.

1 Answer | Asked in Child Custody and Family Law for Louisiana on
Q: how to get custody of granddaughter when both parents are deceased? No will.
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 26, 2021

Hire a custody lawyer and get copies of death certificates if you can.

1 Answer | Asked in Family Law, Child Custody and Domestic Violence for Louisiana on
Q: If I am the domicile parent and my child's father isn't allowing me to see my child, what can I do?

We have no court ordered custody agreement however we have a parenting plan. I'm the Thomas all parent I stated through family services and my child's father is not supposed to have him unsupervised. What can I legally do to get my child back? He has been alienating my son from me for... View More

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 26, 2021

Hire a custody lawyer and file for contempt.

1 Answer | Asked in Family Law, Adoption and Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: Can my biological brother that was adopted move in with me at age 15, when I was also adopted and am now an adult

It was a closed adoption I don’t want to take him from his family but we both want to see and know eachother. I was also adopted and I have no affiliation with my mother or father is there any way we can either meet at a public place for visitation or be able to talk on the phone?

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 26, 2021

Yes your attornry can file for custody or visitation of your brother.

2 Answers | Asked in Family Law and Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: If I the non-custodial parent move 6 hours away for a better job can my ex- leave cross country with my children?

I’m the non custodial parent, my ex my two children and myself live in Louisiana right outside New Orleans . I have a chance to work in my field for triple my salary but the job is in Houston. 6 hours away. If I take this job would my My ex wife be able to take our kids to New York. I plan to... View More

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 18, 2021

Your moving legally does not enable them to move. But you will have to pay all transportation for your child.

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2 Answers | Asked in Child Custody and Criminal Law for Louisiana on
Q: How to file motion of contempt for breach of children custody order?

Children where not returned from visitation. Officer was given court orders and said he could not get my kids, but I can go see about getting them back. Officer was given all information for police report. Children were not with the father and told me to follow him down the road to his parents... View More

Wade Thomas Visconte
Wade Thomas Visconte
answered on Apr 16, 2021

You need to hire a lawyer so you can obtain a court order commanding that the children be returned.

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3 Answers | Asked in Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: whats my first step to getting custody 50/50 started in DeRidder,LA?

kids live with him, because he took them.

Randy Bryan Ligh
Randy Bryan Ligh
answered on Apr 9, 2021

File something with the court seeking this. It may be easier to hire an attorney to represent you on this than you do it yourself.

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1 Answer | Asked in Family Law, Child Custody and Child Support for Louisiana on
Q: I’m 16 and want to move out of my moms house and into my dads is there anything we can do?

She’s not going to let me move out without going to court she relies on the child support to much to just let me go. I hate living here is there anything we can do?

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 6, 2021

Your father can hire a custody lawyer to file for a modification of custody and a hearing for you to talk to the judge.

1 Answer | Asked in Family Law and Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: My ex husband was voluntarily deported and I’d like sole custody how do I do this . He hasn’t seen them 4 years

No child support ever given . He is 26k behind when he lived in states he never saw them. In fact he allowed his new wife to dictate whether they spoke or not which was down in secret . He is gone now and neither child wants anything to do with him . They feel as if he doesn’t care about them.... View More

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 6, 2021

Hire a custody lawyer. It won't take long to get you sole custody.

1 Answer | Asked in Child Custody and Family Law for Louisiana on
Q: I’m 16 and my parents have joint custody. I want to live with my dad. What can I do to make that happen?

Would I have to go to court again?

Would I have to testify in court?

Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 5, 2021

Tellbyour father to hire a custody lawyer. Yes you will have to testify again and yes you will have to go back to court.

2 Answers | Asked in Child Custody for Louisiana on
Q: Can a child live with their mother in her boyfriends house?
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
Ellen Cronin Badeaux
answered on Apr 3, 2021

Yes unless there is a judgment to the contrary or the mother is still married to someone else

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