Get a leg up in your custody case!

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We’ve laid out our most-loved recommendations from our clients…

the stuff that has helped them best through their custody cases.
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The Deepest Well: Healing the Long-Term Effects of Childhood Trauma and Adversity

This well-known book helps get you out of your head and back to your old self–but renewed. It’s so key, even during a custody battle, to work on recovery from abuse

How to Do the Work: Recognize Your Patterns, Heal from Your Past, and Create Your Self

So often a disordered co-parent will accuse the healthier parent of “mental instability” or lack of “mental health.” We love this book because it helps prepare for court AND for healing.

Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving: A GUIDE AND MAP FOR RECOVERING FROM CHILDHOOD TRAUMA

A powerful book that, for many, needs to be read a bit at a time, as there is so much to process. Excellent book to accompany work with a certified trauma therapist.

Rethinking Narcissism: The Bad - and Surprising Good - About Feeling Special

Such an interesting idea, to rethink this. But here, we like that this helps deal with having a narcissist parent or family member you cannot always avoid–and perhaps personally need to come to terms with.

Bradshaw On: The Family: A New Way of Creating Solid Self-Esteem

It’s amazing that the teachings in this book still stand, and yet they truly do. For those who believe that their family of origin has contributed to a lack of boundaries.

Coercive Control: How Men Entrap Women in Personal Life

While the United States is only now and only gradually making coercive control illegal, it’s important to understand how this is manipulation, so that you have powerful language for your court case.

How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen so Kids Will Talk

We love this book so much for any client who has been assigned a GAL or evaluator in their case. Any parent who applies the methods in this book exponentially increase their chances of their kids reporting them as an amazing, caring, firm but loving parent.

13 Things Mentally Strong Parents Don't Do: Raising Self-Assured Children and Training Their Brains for a Life of Happiness, Meaning, and Success

Another great option for ensuring that your parenting stands up to the court’s “test.” Great language and methods that you can then talk about to the evaluator, that you can pull examples from when they ask “What kind of parent are you?”

The Art Of War

We LOVE this book to help you figure out your strategy. Our clients have been so inspired by it, and found real clarity when planning out their cases with their lawyers!

Divorce Casualties, Second Edition: Understanding Parental Alienation

Out of all the books on “parental alienation”*, our Founder, Reneé Rodriguez, recommends this one as the best. It helps overcome your co-parent’s attempts to turn the kids against you, and it helps you to ensure you are not accidentally “alienating” the kids.

Why Does He Do That?: Inside the Minds of Angry and Controlling Men

Abusive men can make you feel trapped and persecuted. Bancroft explains what you are dealing with.

Splitting: Protecting Yourself While Divorcing Someone with Borderline or Narcissistic Personality Disorder

We like the way Bill Eddy lays out what your battle will be like when you are up against a psychological abuser.

No Bad Kids: Toddler Discipline Without Shame

Narcissistic parents tend to be at a loss when they need to “discipline” toddlers. Healthier parents understand what toddlers need…and if you’re unsure, this book is a beautiful guide to a loving relationship with your littlest ones.

And some recommendations for gathering and organizing your evidence:

Anti Spy Detector, Hidden Camera Detector, Anti Bug Scanner and Protector

More and more, our clients are finding that their homes and vehicles are being tracked. This Anti-Spy Detector will help you discover what may be installed around you.

32GB Digital Voice Recorder Voice Activated Recorder for Lectures, Meetings Class

Where it’s legal to audio-record, it is also important to be safe. We like this discreet Pen Voice Recorder, disguised in a way that allows evidence to be captured.

Blink Outdoor - wireless, weather-resistant HD security camera

Moms have noted that the Blink Outdoor Camera has been known to capture conversations and actions at exchanges, and provided proof of a Protective Order being violated.

Blink Mini – Compact indoor plug-in smart security camera

What is captured with the Blink Indoor Camera can also help discover what’s happening when you are away, and we’ve had more than a few moms note that they’ve captured relevant conversations their kids were having.

Blink Indoor – wireless, HD security camera with two-year battery life, motion detection

Some parents prefer to have more than one Blink Indoor Camera in their home. You can order a set of multiple cameras if that is more useful to you.

MIUFLY 1296P Police Body Camera with 2 Inch Display , Night Vision , Built in 64G Memory and GPS

If you need a camera to travel with you and are not a fan of the more obvious options, this Body Camera can be a bit more discreet, or you can wear it openly.

64GB Voice Recorder, Telele Voice Activated Recorder with 40 Hours Battery Time

This tiny Telele Voice Recorder is so thin and easy to use, and doesn’t make any beeps or other noises.

Mini Body Camera Video Recorder, Wearable Police Body cam with Night Vision, HD1080P, Night Vision

Even more subtle than the personal body camera above is the Mini Body Camera Recorder.

Hidden Camera Smoke Detector WiFi Spy Camera Hidden Cameras HD 1080P Small Camera, Night Vision

While this isn’t a working smoke detector, it IS a Hidden Camera! We like that it has night vision and is motion activated (and that it often has a coupon attached)!

Spy Hidden Camera Power Bank HD 1080P 10000mah Portable Nanny Cam Mini Video Recorder

A few things to note about this Hidden Camera Power Bank: one, it is an actual mobile charger, which is great; two, there are blinking lights to get it to record. However, our solution to this is to simply plug in your charging cord at the same time so it seems like that is what is triggering the lights. With some coordination, this can be ok if safety is a consideration.

-Sun Tzu