How can I win sole custody of my child despite not being married?

Basically, this is a battle for a child out of wedlockHow can I win sole custody of my child despite not being married?
I鈥檓 a Father鈥檚 Rights Advocate for 20 years.





Many think the courts are rigged against dads, but in reality, it is more about attorneys unwilling or lacking the knowledge to truly fight for the father's rights. This is why it is important to learn how to interview and hire the right attorney. It is also important to do as much as possible on your own and not pay the attorney to do it.





Start keeping a daily journal of all your activities. The most common way to prevent a father from getting his rights through the courts is a false allegation, usually sexual. Over 60% of divorcing father are accused of child sexual abuse, of which only 4% are found to have any relevance, but there are no penalties for doing so. A daily journal is your number one piece of evidence in court and you can even refer to it while on the stand.





Gather evidence. Check the site below to see if it is illegal to record conversations without the other person knowing. If your state does not have a law either way, than it defaults to the federal ruling which says one person in a conversation must know they are being recorded. You鈥檙e that one person. In Missouri it is specifically legal, in Kansas there is no mention either way. If you live in two different states, and one has a law against it, than it applies when the call originates from within that state,





Now, you can't just record, you also have to transcribe it into the daily journal.





If you want to learn how to do all this go to Dads House in Yahoo Groups. There's an educational manual in the file section that can teach you what you need to know. The organization it came from is defunct due to attorneys that tried to take it over and make money from it.





Take the time to learn what you can and should do.





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http://www.parentalalienation.org/How can I win sole custody of my child despite not being married?
If you are a male and the child is under eight, this will be very difficult.





The ';tender years'; doctrine is one that is followed by almost every state family court system. Absent establishment of lack of fitness by virtue of drug use, chronic alcoholism, prostitution, abandonment of the child periodically or criminal incarceration, the best interests of the child are always presumed by the Court to be by having the mother be the primary custodial parent.





If you are battling with the child's mother, is it about money? I ask because sometimes parents have a price, and a lump sum offer may cause her to agree to give you primary physical custody.





Absent that, the best you can hope for is a liberal visitation schedule that adopts a co-parenting model favored by the courts. You will need to retain a Father's Right's attorney to assist you.
Is the other parent unfit, or are you just trying to punish them using your child as the device of torture? If the other parent is fit, it would be in your child's best interest to have equal time with both of you.


Proving the other parent unfit would be the first step towards sole custody...
Unless you can prove the father unfit, you can't....Sorry.





The child is genetically half his, or did you forget that?





You picked him to be the father (remember??), and as such, he has legal rights.
I agree with girlegi.


but with Three things added





One will have physical custody...


Child support from the noncustodial parent. set at about 33 % of gross income...





Visitation set out clearly. ...








The woman wins that all the time.
Get a lawyer or try to get along with the father enough to split custody fairly
The battle is the same if you are married or not.
You file for sole custody and go to court. (Forms are at the courthouse- you know... the big building downtown)