Why hiring a Firm with both Divorce and Criminal defense skills is important.
The hiring of one firm to take care of multiple situations is often preferred since the sharing of information between different firms is often complicated and more expensive. Moreover, you need an attorney that understands the ramifications of convictions and pleas and how to use the trial testimony and cross examination in the criminal case as a spring board into the civil.
Over the past several years our firm has noticed a significant increase in divorce clients faced with criminal complaints or protective orders. The motivation in these cases are often as a result of malice or to gain a tactical advantage in their divorce and/ or custody proceeding.
Our firm has been extremely successful in having the false allegations dismissed and using the misconduct of the reporting party to our advantage. For example, where a mother filed a child protective services complaint preventing the father from having contact with the child we proved in Court that the mother coerced the child to lie and custody was granted to the father.
In the past several years we have successfully represented clients in marital rape, protective order hearings, CPS complaints, brandishing of firearms, domestic violence (assault and battery), violation of bond conditions, violation of protective order hearings, child neglect, child endangerment, child abuse (sexual and physical), destruction of property, drug possession, breaking and entering and parental kidnapping.
