Affair Investigations
When trust has already broken down, we help verify what is real so you are not left living on suspicion alone.
Family-Law Investigation Types
Explore the investigation paths families most often need when they are trying to understand what facts matter, what can still be documented lawfully, and where to begin.
Common Investigation Questions
Begin with the issue at the center of the case, then move narrower only if the facts truly need it.
Divorce Investigations
We help sort out living arrangements, timelines, asset questions, and credibility problems when the divorce story no longer adds up.
Child Custody Investigations
We help document safety concerns, caregiving patterns, and day-to-day reality when a child's wellbeing is at the center of the case.
Parenting Plan Investigations
We help turn missed exchanges, denied time, relocation issues, and repeated violations into a clear timeline people can actually follow.
Financial Support Investigations
We help test income stories, work activity, cohabitation, and lifestyle claims when the numbers stop making sense.
Court Order Investigations
We help document violations, build the factual record for new filings, and organize the evidence courts need when restraining orders, protection orders, or no-contact orders are at issue.
Additional Investigation Types
Some matters become more contested, more urgent, or more specific as the file develops. These are the issues that often surface next.
High Net Worth Divorce Investigations
High net worth divorce investigations focus on financially complex family-law cases where business ties, property use, lifestyle patterns, and ownership leads need to be documented clearly and carefully.
- What we look into: business interests, shell entities, LLC and property ties, undeclared vehicles or boats, residence-use patterns, and lifestyle-to-income inconsistencies.
- Use cases: disputed disclosures, business-owner divorce, asset-control conflicts, and financially complex settlement or trial preparation.
- Output: source-based timelines, ownership-lead packages, property-use documentation, and organized reporting for attorney review.
Alimony and Spousal Support Investigations
This investigation type focuses on support-related facts such as cohabitation indicators, lifestyle patterns, and undisclosed income behavior that may affect support strategy.
- Common examples: cohabitation timeline development, routine pattern verification, and source-based observations.
- Use cases: support establishment, contested support obligations, and modification petitions.
- Output: timeline-based evidence summaries prepared for attorney and court process.
Child Support Modification Investigations
Child support modification investigations focus on evidence tied to changed circumstances, income disputes, and employment or residency facts relevant to support recalculation.
- Common examples: employment and activity pattern verification, residence-use observations, and source-based documentation.
- Use cases: proving income change claims, disputed underemployment assertions, and undisclosed-work indicators.
- Output: time-stamped findings matched to support-hearing preparation.
Cohabitation Investigations
Cohabitation investigations are built to document shared-residence and shared-routine indicators with lawful, timeline-focused methods for support-related legal disputes.
- Common examples: overnight pattern documentation, routine overlap observations, and location/timeline corroboration.
- Use cases: alimony review, spousal-support cases, and claim validation in contested domestic matters.
- Output: structured chronology with source context and report-ready exhibits.
Parental Kidnapping and Unauthorized Removal Investigations
Parental kidnapping and unauthorized removal investigations focus on urgent child-locate and movement-timeline work when a parent takes or keeps a child outside the expected legal or parenting-plan framework.
- What we look into: parent and child locate leads, recent movement patterns, residence-use verification, public-facing digital traces, and timeline reconstruction tied to court orders or expected exchanges.
- Use cases: missed returns, concealment concerns, emergency custody strategy support, and attorney-directed fact development in urgent child-custody disputes.
- Output: source-based locate notes, timeline-based reporting, and organized evidence for attorney and law-enforcement coordination.
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Parental Fitness Investigations
Parental fitness investigations focus on child-safety and caregiving pattern evidence, including supervision consistency, environment concerns, and timeline-based corroboration.
- Common examples: parenting-time condition observations, witness development, and behavior pattern documentation.
- Use cases: custody disputes, parenting plan modifications, and child-safety concerns.
- Output: organized evidence packages for attorney review and custody-related filings.
Right of First Refusal Investigations
Right of first refusal investigations document whether parenting-plan notice and transfer obligations are being followed when childcare time is delegated.
- Common examples: schedule-compliance timelines, transfer-window observations, and communication pattern corroboration.
- Use cases: enforcement motions, repeated noncompliance claims, and parenting-plan clarification disputes.
- Output: chronology-based evidence matched to court order language and event timing.
Relocation Investigations
Relocation investigations focus on move-related claims and custody-impact facts, including residence changes, routine disruptions, and notice/timing disputes.
- Common examples: location verification, pattern-of-movement documentation, and timeline validation tied to custody orders.
- Use cases: parent relocation disputes, contested move notices, and parenting-time impact evidence.
- Output: source-based relocation timeline prepared for legal review.
Grandparent Rights Investigations
Grandparent-rights investigations gather family-context and caregiving-pattern evidence relevant to visitation or custody-related petitions under Washington family-law processes.
- Common examples: historical caregiving timeline reconstruction, witness interviews, and routine documentation.
- Use cases: visitation disputes, guardianship-related facts, and child best-interest evidence support.
- Output: organized report materials with chronology and source attribution.
Domestic Violence Investigations
Domestic violence investigations focus on documenting the pattern of abuse, threats, intimidation, coercive control, or physical harm that drives protection order petitions, custody safety arguments, and the factual record courts need to evaluate the danger.
- What we look into: incident chronology, threat and intimidation patterns, coercive control indicators, physical evidence context, witness identification, and digital harassment preservation.
- Use cases: DVPO petitions, custody safety arguments, DV-related parenting plan restrictions, and defense against false or retaliatory DV allegations.
- Output: timeline-based conduct documentation with corroboration, organized for attorney review, court filing, and hearing preparation.
Restraining Order Investigations
Restraining order investigations document violations of court-ordered restrictions issued within family-law cases, including prohibited contact, proximity breaches, and conduct that violates the specific terms of the order.
- Common examples: contact-pattern timelines, proximity documentation, communication preservation, and witness corroboration.
- Use cases: enforcement motions, contempt filings, modification hearings, and defense against false violation claims.
- Output: violation chronology with source context organized for family-court review.
Protection Order Investigations
Protection order investigations support both petitioners building the factual record for a new filing and respondents who need to document the actual conduct history when an order has been filed against them.
- Common examples: conduct-pattern documentation, stalking and harassment timelines, digital evidence preservation, and witness development for hearing preparation.
- Use cases: DVPO petitions, anti-harassment orders, stalking protection orders, temporary-to-permanent order hearings, and contested protection order proceedings.
- Output: organized evidence packages with chronology, corroboration, and source attribution ready for court filing.
No-Contact Order Investigations
No-contact order investigations document violations of criminal court conditions that prohibit contact between parties, including direct contact attempts, third-party relays, and digital communication that breaches the order terms.
- Common examples: contact-attempt logs, third-party intermediary documentation, digital message preservation, and location-based proximity evidence.
- Use cases: criminal violation reporting, family-law crossover evidence, bail-condition enforcement, and defense against false violation allegations.
- Output: violation timeline with source links organized for both criminal and family-court proceedings.
Investigation Planning Factors
The strongest plans are shaped by legal boundaries, timing pressure, and the real question the file needs answered.
Start With the Real Question
Good planning begins with the question that actually needs an answer, not with the loudest accusation in the room.
Lawful Documentation First
The method has to fit the law, the timeline, and the kind of record that may still help later.
Pressure Changes the Plan
A quiet early-stage file is not planned the same way as a matter already moving toward a hearing or emergency request.
Investigation FAQ
How do I know which investigation type fits first?
Start with the question that feels most central to the case. The narrower subpages are there when the facts need something more specific.
Can one matter involve more than one investigation type?
Yes. Custody, relocation, support, and court-order issues often overlap. A good plan keeps those facts coordinated instead of treating them as separate worlds.
What if I still do not know where to begin?
Start with consultation. The right path usually becomes clearer once the timing, legal posture, and evidence questions are on the table.
Need help deciding where to start?
If the issue already feels active, consultation is usually the fastest way to sort out which path deserves attention first.