What is the likelihood that I get custody if my ex-wife had recently been arrested for a second set of drug charges since 2009?

OK, even considering the source of this opinion (I am a man, not divorced, but I am a man), I can still give you my honest, objective opinion as an attorney with 19 years' experience: Men generally have a much harder time winning custody than do women, even drug abusing women. Judges and commissioners will never admit it publicly, but it's so obvious that many believe men don't love their kids as much as the women do, believe that men who seek custody are doing so just to avoid paying child support, or seek custody as leverage to negotiate other issues in divorce. By the way, all of that is true for some men (some women too, but courts rarely, if ever, publicly acknowledge that), yet courts often paint all men with the same false broad brush. Men are slowly getting treated better in divorce. The stereotypes of men generally being clods and women being saints So can you win custody if your wife is a drug addict? Her drug abuse certainly doesn't strengthen her case, but by no means does it make your case a slam dunk.