San Diego Child Custody Attorney

Child Custody - Visitation - Parenting Time - Legal Rights

Phone: 619-284-4113

Our child custody and visitation attorneys at Wilkinson & Finkbeiner, LLP, represent mothers and fathers in San Diego concerning child custody and child visitation issues.
Custody and visitation issues arise in divorces, paternity actions where a child’s parents are not married, adoption cases, or guardianship matters.  The attorneys at Wilkinson & Finkbeiner, LLP will explain the difference between legal custody and physical custody.  Legal custody involves decisions concerning a child’s health, safety, education, religion, medical decisions and other issues concerning a child’s welfare.  Physical custody involves the day to day child sharing arrangement.
Our attorneys will prepare you for your hearing as well as Family Court Services (FCS) mediation.  San Diego is a recommending county.  This means that if no agreement is reached in mediation, the Family Court Services mediator will submit a recommendation to your judge or commissioner. Preparation for mediation will help you feel less intimidated and confused about the process.
Compassionate San Diego Child Custody Attorneys
As experienced San Diego child custody and visitation attorneys, we will protect your parental rights by seeking to establish frequent and continuing contact between a parent and child in accordance with the child’s best interests.  This includes obtaining specific orders concerning legal and physical custody including: primary custody, visitation schedule, overnights, weekends, holidays, summer vacations, and other significant events.
The child sharing arrangement, also known as physical custody or timeshare, directly impacts child support paid by one parent to another.    Therefore, obtaining favorable custody orders may be extremely important financially for one or both parties.
Finally, our attorneys are experienced in move-away cases including trials (evidentiary hearings) and requests for interstate and intrastate move-aways. We have also conducted evidentiary hearings where a move-away request was based on a desire to alienate the non-custodial parent’s time with the child.