Can You Hire a Private Psychologist or Doctor in an ACS Case?
A child abuse or neglect investigation can be frightful and confusing. This is particularly true if the New York City Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has questioned your mental health as it relates to your parenting abilities. ACS may tell you they must get a mental health evaluation...
How Can I Get Visitation Rights With My Child in Brooklyn?
At The Gilmer Law Firm, PLLC, located in Brooklyn, New York, the firm focuses on helping parents protect and enforce their parental rights in Family Court. When a relationship ends, emotions often run high, especially when children are involved. Unfortunately, it’s not uncommon for one parent to limit or interfere...
Filing a Restraining Order in Brooklyn
As a skilled Family Court lawyer in Brooklyn, New York City, I have a proven track record of successfully representing numerous clients in custody, visitation, and restraining order cases. My expertise and experience make me well-equipped to handle even...
Can I File a Restraining Order Against a Teacher?
How to Win a Custody Modification Case
During a divorce, a judge awards custody based on what they perceive to be the best interests of the child at that time. But what if circumstances change and the custody order is no longer best for the child? In that case, you can ask for custody modification.
Requesting custody modification can be an uphill...
What Can Be Used Against You in a Custody Battle?
When you split from the parent of your child, the child custody process can be fraught with overwhelming challenges.
If you’re going through a divorce or separation, we imagine you have concerns about your parenting rights.
A child custody order often depends on your child’s needs, the judge selected for your case, the...
How Is an LLC Treated in a Divorce?
Have multiple people warned you to keep your professional and personal lives separate? We imagine they have. This practice can work in theory, but you probably know by now that separation of your professional and personal lives can be nearly impossible when you’re a business owner going through a divorce. If you have...
How to Protect Assets in a Divorce
When you think of the word “divorce,” you probably think of the phrase “emotionally taxing.” You probably also think of the phrase “financially taxing.” You’re right to have those thoughts on both fronts. Divorces can take emotional and financial tolls that involved parties often dread and want to avoid. You can’t bury your...
Parent’s Rights against ACS in New York
It can be thoroughly frightening and devastating when the state intervenes in the relationship between you and your child. If the New York Administration for Children’s Services (ACS) has contacted you about the welfare...
How Do You Expunge An ACS Case?
As an ACS defense attorney at the Gilmer Law Firm, PLLC, I have for twenty years represented people indicated by ACS (CPS) and have helped many expunge their cases. My clients ask me how I expunge a...