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Mar. 20, 2024

Is Dissomaster biased? It depends

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Stanley Mosk Courthouse

Scott J. Nord

Judge, Los Angeles County Superior Court

Whittier College School of Law

Imagine a father seeking advice about custody and visitation and is told that as a status quo, the court is going to start with the premise that the mother will have primary physical custody and you, as the father, will have alternate weekends and some additional visitation time with the minor child, roughly 20%. Regardless of what the mother or father says or their rationale for or against it, you both start with that presumption. Father can try to argue fo...

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