Infidelity and Affair Investigations
Document relevant meetings, routines and residence patterns while observing Washington’s privacy and recording limits.
Washington Investigation Types
A Washington family case may involve a court in one county and relevant activity in another. We plan investigation around the facts you need checked, the places where those facts can be documented and the deadline for your attorney’s review.
Common Investigation Questions
Start with the family issue and the statement or event in dispute. The services below explain the records, observations and interviews that may help.
Divorce Investigations
Check disputed living arrangements, property use and financial connections against available records and dated observations.
Child Custody Investigations
Gather factual information about supervision, caregiving and exchanges for review under the current parenting orders.
Parenting Plan Investigations
Document scheduled versus actual exchanges, notices and returns, including records of agreed changes.
Financial Support Investigations
Investigate work activity, business connections and residence claims relevant to support or maintenance questions.
Court Order Investigations
Preserve incident and contact evidence for attorney review of restraining, protection and criminal no-contact order matters.
Additional Investigation Types
A broader family case may need one of these more focused assignments. We agree on the factual question before choosing methods.
High Net Worth Divorce Investigations
In a complex divorce, we can follow business and property records to identify ownership links and document who uses an asset. The report gives counsel specific sources to examine alongside disclosures.
- 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.
- What you receive: a source-referenced ownership chronology and relevant property-use findings. Valuation, pension calculations and a complete financial audit are separately agreed specialist work.
Alimony and Spousal Support Investigations
We investigate disputed work and living arrangements relevant to maintenance, including cohabitation indicators and possible undisclosed income activity.
- Common examples: cohabitation timeline development, routine pattern verification, and source-based observations.
- Use cases: support establishment, contested support obligations, and modification petitions.
- What you receive: observations and lawful records arranged by date for counsel’s review of the support question.
Child Support Modification Investigations
We document claimed changes in employment, business activity or residence and compare the dates with the earlier support record.
- Common examples: employment and activity pattern verification, residence-use observations, and source-based documentation.
- Questions to check: whether current activity supports an income-change claim, a disputed underemployment assertion or a concern about undisclosed work.
- What you receive: a dated comparison with supporting sources for attorney review before a support hearing.
Cohabitation Investigations
We investigate a disputed shared-residence arrangement through relevant records and observations of repeated routines and overnight stays.
- 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.
- What you receive: an observation chronology with source context and coverage gaps; counsel assesses its significance for support.
Parental Kidnapping and Unauthorized Removal Investigations
A missing child should be reported to law enforcement immediately, and immediate danger calls for 911. Once urgent reporting is underway, we can investigate lawful location leads and movement history for authorized coordination.
- 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.
- What you receive: location findings with their sources, movement dates and unverified leads identified for counsel and law enforcement.
Parental Fitness Investigations
We document observable caregiving, supervision and environment facts rather than making a diagnosis, clinical fitness evaluation or GAL assessment. Medical, treatment, school, DCYF, victim-service and military records are reviewed only when lawfully available with proper authority.
- Common examples: parenting-time condition observations, witness development, and behavior pattern documentation.
- Use cases: custody disputes, parenting plan modifications, and child-safety concerns.
- What you receive: a factual care chronology, relevant witness accounts and corroborating records for legal review.
Right of First Refusal Investigations
We check childcare arrangements against the specific notice and transfer provisions in a parenting plan’s right-of-first-refusal clause.
- Common examples: schedule-compliance timelines, transfer-window observations, and communication pattern corroboration.
- Use cases: enforcement motions, repeated noncompliance claims, and parenting-plan clarification disputes.
- What you receive: dated childcare and communication findings linked to the order language for counsel’s assessment.
Relocation Investigations
We investigate move dates, residence use and changes to parenting routines, preserving available records about notice and timing.
- 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.
- What you receive: a relocation chronology with sources. Counsel handles notice, objection and court deadlines, which investigation does not extend.
Grandparent Rights Investigations
We gather firsthand accounts and lawful records of caregiving and contact to help counsel review a grandparent’s visitation or guardianship question.
- Common examples: historical caregiving timeline reconstruction, witness interviews, and routine documentation.
- Use cases: visitation disputes, guardianship-related facts, and child best-interest evidence support.
- What you receive: a dated family-care history with sources and unresolved periods clearly identified.
Domestic Violence Investigations
We document alleged abuse, threats, intimidation, coercive control and physical harm with incident dates and corroboration. Seek urgent safety help without waiting for our findings.
- What we look into: incident chronology, threat and intimidation patterns, coercive control indicators, physical evidence context, witness identification, and digital harassment preservation.
- When this helps: factual preparation for DVPO proceedings, custody safety issues, parenting-plan restrictions or a response to disputed allegations.
- What you receive: an incident history and relevant supporting records for attorney review and hearing preparation.
Restraining Order Investigations
We compare documented events with a family-law restraining order’s actual contact, proximity and conduct restrictions.
- 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.
- What you receive: dated incident findings with source context for counsel to assess the alleged breach.
Protection Order Investigations
We preserve incident evidence for a civil protection-order petition or response, including original communications and corroborating accounts.
- 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.
- What you receive: a chronology and source references for counsel’s review of the filing and hearing requirements.
No-Contact Order Investigations
We document contact attempts, intermediaries and digital messages relevant to a criminal no-contact order, without undertaking enforcement.
- 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.
- What you receive: a source-referenced contact timeline for counsel or law enforcement, including relevant family-court overlap.
Investigation Planning Factors
Effective planning connects a defined factual question with available sources, locations and a realistic schedule.
Statewide Legal Boundaries
We review relevant orders and access restrictions before selecting methods. Public research, authorized records, interviews and observations each have their own lawful limits.
County Court Timing
Identify the court and hearing date, then allow time for counsel to review the findings. An investigation schedule does not change court filing or notice deadlines.
Attorney and Court Process
Tell us what your attorney needs clarified and what material already exists. We can then focus the assignment on evidence still available to answer that question.
Planning a Washington Investigation Across Counties
Identify the court handling the case, the order or event in dispute and the relevant locations. Witnesses, exchanges and records may be in different counties from the filing. Those locations and the expected activity windows determine the practical work.
Check Statewide Forms Against Local Requirements
The Washington Courts forms directory provides statewide forms and notes that individual courts may require additional forms or local rules. Check the court’s current instructions with counsel. Our investigation report supplies factual findings; it does not replace the required declaration, filing or legal advice.
Prepare Records for the First Conversation
Bring the current order, relevant dates, records you lawfully hold and the hearing date if known. Identify what you witnessed personally and what someone else reported. Preserve original files, noting any annotations separately, and tell us about restrictions on access or contact.
Identify likely observation locations before budgeting. Lite service is $150 per hour and Heavy is $300 per hour, per investigator. Preparation and our report writing each cost $150 per hour; round-trip travel from our Tacoma office costs $2.50 per minute. Except travel, time is rounded up to whole hours. Support work and applicable dollar surcharges are paid separately rather than deducted from service hours. Review the hourly rates and billing rules before approving the assignment.
Related Evidence and Planning Guides
- Minor guardianship investigation support in Washington: Document caregiving and household facts for legal review; investigation does not confer guardianship authority or a court appointment.
Washington Investigation FAQ
Do these investigation types change depending on where the case sits in Washington?
The underlying factual question may be the same, but locations, court dates and record availability affect the plan. Tell us where the relevant activity occurs as well as where the case is filed so we can estimate the work and travel.
Can an investigation start small and widen later?
Yes. We can begin with one defined question. If findings suggest useful additional work, we explain the proposed scope, schedule and cost and obtain approval before proceeding.
Are these pages legal advice?
No. We describe investigative work and factual preparation. Your attorney advises on legal rights, strategy, forms and court requirements.
Need help deciding where to start?
Have the current order, relevant locations and your deadline available. A free 30-minute introductory consultation can help define the assignment; additional outside-task communication is prepaid separately at $150 per hour, without charging twice for communication included in the task.