About

Hello and welcome to Mr. Custody Coach.

We are very glad that you have joined us and thank you for doing so. Our hope is to make your investment of time and membership dues more than worth your while.

Those of us at Mr. Custody Coach have a wealth of personal experience in divorce and family court. We also bring backgrounds in other important and very relevant areas of expertise: personal experience, legal background, divorce & custody education, mental health expertise, interpersonal relationship knowledge, communications history, among others.

My name is Michael Ambrose. For over 5-years, I was embroiled in a seemingly endless string of support & custody conferences, hearings, consultations with attorneys, three separate custody evaluations, job losses & hires… the relevant list of experiences is long and storied. There were a very difficult 10-years of marriage prior to that with a partner who is suspected of suffering from a serious mental illness: Borderline Personality Disorder.

Over that period of time, I personally undertook a great deal of self-study in many facets of the divorce and child custody industry (family court). My research has spanned, at one time or another, every single state in the United States of America. Further, I have made many important contacts who have helped me along the way.

What are our goals and objectives?

Our tag line – “Better Prepared, Better Outcome” – captures the essence of what our resources are here to provide you. Divorce and Family Court experiences can be a trying time for any family and one that can get extremely expensive in a very short period of time for the warring parties.

Today’s attorneys, assuming you can afford one to represent your interests, have hourly rates of $150, $250, $500 per hour or more! A single hour of consultation with your attorney can cost $500. A single day in court costs upwards of $3,000, maybe more! Know this – you’re not going to have just one custody or support conference. You’re not going to have just one custody or support hearing. This is especially true if you’re involved in litigation with a high-conflict ex-spouse.

We are not anti-mother, pro-father, or vice-versa. We are first and foremost pro-children. We believe all children deserve both parents, unless there are serious issues which prevent one parent from providing a stable, loving environment. An environment where the children are encouraged to love and be loved by both parents.

We offer a view few judges will ever see. For attorneys, custody evaluators, guardians ad-litem, and judges, a custody case ends with their decision. They make a ruling and walk away with nary a care as to how clients can, and do, go against the orders they have handed down. They don’t have to deal with the ongoing parental alienation the children hear as soon as the losing parent goes home. Nor do they hear about the withheld phone calls due to a parents anger, the hundreds of e-mails, the voice-mails and direct confrontations, or the false abuse allegations. That is until, of course, one party files in court, yet again. When a judge gets tired of “frequent filers” (a direct quote from our judge) they now have parenting coordinators to whom they hand-off annoying clients.

We hope that by sharing the knowledge of our collective experiences and research, we will effect positive change for you, our clients, and save you a lot of money along the way.

We now include and will be offering soon:

  • Advice columns (from us and other experts)
  • Workshops
  • Teleconferences
  • Letter & email writing assistance
  • Court order review & analysis
  • Book reviews
  • Tales from the real world (this means you)
  • Articles with review & analysis
  • Legal referrals
  • News
  • Links to other important resources and more

It is our sincere hope that our shared ideas, suggestions, and insight will be helpful to you, the ones you love, and who love you as you work your way through your own unique situation. The help we can offer you will only be as good as you are honest and forthright about your own situation. Your privacy will be maintained and respected. You should feel free to share as much detail as you can in order to get the best tips, suggestions, and advice possible from those who will offer it.

We realize that these issues are not gender-specific and hope you’ll understand that our guidance is intended to help you obtain and retain the maximum amount of time with your children. With that in mind, we hope you will stick around because the information we offer is helpful to all.

Sincerely,
Michael Ambrose

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