If you are really serious about enforcing your parental rights and your rights of parent time awarded to you in your divorce action, and you want to succeed in your efforts, that means you will all but certainly have to spend some money on an extremely good attorney. If there were a way for you to do this yourself successfully, I really wouldn't have any hesitation in telling you that you could. But the odds are against you. First, enforcing your rights to contact with your children is not something that most people can do if they are not experienced family lawyers. Second, even if you were to learn and know cold the law on enforcement of parental and visitation (which is now called parent time) rights in a divorce action, the sad and not so secret dirty little secret is that court commissioners and judges all but loathe people who represent themselves, particularly people who represent themselves in divorce actions, and even more particularly people who represent themselves in actions to enforce parent-time. I have seen people who are not lawyers but who areare well-prepared and to go into court seeking to enforce their parent time and doing an excellent job of arguing your case, only to lose because the court simply didn't pay attention to them and really take them seriously. So if you want to enforce your parent time, if you really mean it, then your best bet (there simply cannot be any guarantees in a situation like this) is to find the very, very best attorney you can and to fully cooperate with and to pay that attorney what he asks to do the necessary work. For most people, this means spending a lot of money they cannot easily spend. If you cannot reconcile yourself to that fact, there really isn't an alternative.
Answered on Jul 03rd, 2013 at 8:23 PM