Child Custody

[JanetFritts]

Dear louene:

Greetings. The judge will listen very carefully to your step child, especially due to her age. I don’t think that you will have a problem changing custody based on the information provided below. If you are in the Wake County area, please feel free to contact us to get an idea on what we think about th rest of the facts. Best of luck.

Janet L. Fritts
Attorney at Law
4101 Lake Boone Trail, Suite 200
Raleigh, North Carolina 27607
NCDivorce.com
919-787-6668

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[louene]

I have a 17 yr old step child that wants to go to court to have the custody of her changed from her mother to her father. There has been alot of verbal abuse and threats between her and her mother for 6 years now. Will that have any bearing if we go to court and how much will the judge take into account what my step child feels and wants? It has always been a bad situation for her and she has tried to stick it out. It will be ugly, we know, if we do go to court.