Monday, September 28, 2009

LOS ANGELES PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR PROVES CHILD NEGLECT AND ENDANGERMENT ISSUES THROUGH LAW ENFORCEMEN

Increasingly, allegations of child neglect and endangerment are viewed as “child custody disputes” within the jurisdiction of family law courts. Accordingly, it is becoming more common for a parent to levy allegations of abuse and report such claims to the Department of Social Services to initiate a formal investigation.

Many concerned parents get a rude awakening when Child Protective Services’ reports turn up “Unfounded” results and they learn no further action will be taken. This can be a nightmare to any parent who has intimate knowledge of the abusive parent’s potential to harm the child.

In reality, most such cases are treated as “Child Custody Disputes” by family court. A contested child custody dispute can be a financially and emotionally frustrating endeavor. Many times the case can be reduced to legal theatrics by ambitious attorneys prolonging the legal agony for profit. Most cases will be invariably predicated on unsubstantiated facts and the implied consequences on the child. These cases will lack direct evidence to support the allegations to materially implicate the bad parent.

The child custody experts at Lead Investigation Group, Inc. specialize in handling such custody cases by introducing direct and relevant evidence. The agency consults and investigates complex custody cases private clients and Certified Family Law Specialist attorneys. The agency employs all its resources including use of law enforcement assistance when necessary to properly document and investigate criminal offenses (ie: DUI arrests, narcotics possession, domestic violence, or money laundering and financial crimes.) The investigations supplement the routine investigation conducted by the agency (ie: documentation of alcohol or drug dependency, relationship with or cohabitation with a new partner who is unfit, or through documentation of any pattern of behavior indicative of emotional abuse or neglect.) These efforts generate overwhelming evidence that would otherwise remain undiscovered.

In a recent case, Lead Investigation Group's Orange County private investigators documented a subject's alcohol intake during a weekend visitation with the minor child. The investigators noted the mother's impaired motor functions, as she drove to the babysitter's house to pick up the child. While transporting the child, the mother was detained and arrested for DUI by the Orange County Sheriff's Department. The evidence of the mother's alcohol intake was presented by the investigators and a conviction for willfull child endangerment and a DUI was sustained. Accordingly, custody was turned over to the father of the child, as the mother was deemed a potential threat to the minor child.

Lead Investigation Group’s investigators are subject matter experts and testify to these findings and present legally admissible audio and video recorded evidence to bolster the case. The findings are usually the key to a favorable custody ruling or modification.

The agency’s private detectives have leveraged hundreds of cases in nearly every Family Court venue in California. Since October 2008, the agency has had a 100% success rate in Ex-Parte motions filed in Orange County, Los Angeles, San Diego, Riverside and San Francisco County.


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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

LA DUI Lawyers' False Promises of Dismissal

You have just been arrested for a DUI in Los Angeles. Naturally, you are concerned. You need help so you decide to meet with an LA DUI lawyer who tells you that your case can be dismissed. Ahh, dismissal, the magic word. Or is it? Was that Los Angeles DUI lawyer being honest with your or just making an empty promise of a dismissal?

As an LA DUI lawyer, it's easy to tell someone arrested for a DUI that you can get their case dismissed. After all, it's only natural for someone charged with a DUI to want to avoid a conviction. They are concerned about going to jail, their job, their driver's license. They want good news. Unfortunately, a dismissal is not a realistic option on all DUI cases. What's even more unfortunate is that many Los Angeles DUI lawyers know this yet still use words like "dismissal" in an effort to get you to hire them.

An experienced LA DUI lawyer should know how to draw out the necessary information from a potential DUI client to thoroughly evaluate their case. To that end, it is the duty of any credible LA DUI lawyer to be able to advise a client as to what they can reasonably expect to happen on their case. This would include breaking down both the best and worst case scenario.

Now while a "dismissal" would always be the best case scenario on any criminal case, not just a DUI, it is not always a realistic option. For example, let's say you have a Los Angeles DUI case in which your blood alcohol concentration is extremely high, above a .20% for example. Then, absent some glaring violation of your rights or technicality, the likelihood of a dismissal of your DUI case is not too realistic. Your case will most likely be one about damage control such as avoiding jail or a license suspension in which case an experienced LA DUI lawyer is still of great value to you.

If an LA DUI lawyer is talking dismissal for a DUI case as described above, they are doing nothing more then praying upon your emotions in hopes of getting your money. It is unfair and misleading and will certainly lead to a confrontation when the client figures out that their Los Angeles DUI lawyer has made nothing more than a false promise.

It's sad but true. Many LA DUI lawyers know you are in a position where you want to hear something extremely positive and they are relying on this to get you to hire them.

So what can you do to protect yourself against the false promises of "dismissal" for LA DUI lawyers more concerned about getting your money then truly helping you? The following is a list of tips that will assist you in making sure you hire the right Los Angeles DUI lawyer:


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