Sole Custody for my Fiance's Child

[Mark and Pooky 11]

We are now in the packet 3 stage to bring my Fiance over to the USA, using a K1 visa.  We also want to prepare the paperwork to bring her son to the USA, under her Visa on a K2 visa, after we get married in the USA, she gets an adj of status and she is allowed to travel.  Here is where it gets sticky.  She has a child, who is 12.  She had a husband, but nothing was ever filed, so in the eyes of the court, she was never married.  But our Visa service is telling us she has to go to Family Court and get a sole custody pronouncement from the court to be able to take her son out of Thailand.  The service has connections to a lawyer in BKK, but is going to charge 75,000 bhat to have him travel to her local court in Isaan.  Were trying to avoid paying the 75k they charge, but I dont even know how to find a lawyer who could do this in her Bueng Kan province.  Any suggestions?

[Mark and Pooky 11]

On 5/24/2019 at 6:22 AM, Mark and Pooky said:

We are now in the packet 3 stage to bring my Fiance over to the USA, using a K1 visa.  We also want to prepare the paperwork to bring her son to the USA, under her Visa on a K2 visa, after we get married in the USA, she gets an adj of status and she is allowed to travel.  Here is where it gets sticky.  She has a child, who is 12.  She had a husband, but nothing was ever filed, so in the eyes of the court, she was never married.  But our Visa service is telling us she has to go to Family Court and get a sole custody pronouncement from the court to be able to take her son out of Thailand.  The service has connections to a lawyer in BKK, but is going to charge 75,000 bhat to have him travel to her local court in Isaan.  Were trying to avoid paying the 75k they charge, but I dont even know how to find a lawyer who could do this in her Bueng Kan province.  Any suggestions?

We found a local lawyer who took up the sole custody letter for her son.  The process took less than a week, and the lawyer charged 7000 baht.  Not bad at all.

 

[Zoltan K 86]

On 6/10/2019 at 3:45 AM, Mark and Pooky said:

We found a local lawyer who took up the sole custody letter for her son.  The process took less than a week, and the lawyer charged 7000 baht.  Not bad at all.

 

what do you mean, took up a letter?

the lawyer wrote a letter? 

 

please elaborate more in detail what happened.

[Mark and Pooky 11]

1 hour ago, Zoltan K said:

what do you mean, took up a letter?

the lawyer wrote a letter? 

 

please elaborate more in detail what happened.

We went tg o a local attorney who was a relative.  Not sure if he had an actual law degree, but he went to the family court for us, and got the court to issue a sole custody letter.