WARNING: You will lose custody of your child, as i did, if you depend upon these people to help you in you're custody case. schank family law is an office of liars and scammers. A disgrace to justice, decency, morality, and the law. californias laws dont help but these so called lawyers will tell you "they can help", just to get you to sign a contract and get you to give up you're money even though THEY KNOW they cannot win you're case. Morals do not exist with these people. The first time i met with a lawyer from schank, it took her a month AFTER I paid them the retainer fee, to contact me and another month to get an appointment/meeting with her. Then 2 weeks later i called for an update and she said that she was "no longer with the schank firm and i would have to wait until they asigned me a new layer." So i waited for another month before i threatend the schank firm with withdrawing my retainer fee and firing them. That got there attention and i was assigned a new lawyer and an appointment was made. I met with the new lawyer a week later. He told me he was "one of the best." And "You have an %80 chance of winning." With my ex wife getting a DUI, moving to 5 different addresses within a year1/2 with my child, having the child around multiple boyfriends of whom at least one was a convicted felon and much more, i thought this was in the bag. For privacy reasons I don't want to divulge any more than that but there is much more to her and my case. Further more i refinanced my house and gave them a limit of how much I had to spend on my case and and told them "NOT TO EXCEED that amount UNTIL I was updated on the status of my case". Then, if everything was going well, I would pay them more if it was required...Because, lets face it, you can't put a price on your child and keeping them safe. Even if it means going into debt. Well, they did exceed the budget. BY ALOT!!! only to tell me "My case wasnt going well and I need to spend more. So my lawyer completely disregarded what i asked of him. After seeing the "progress of my case", I told the lawyer at disgraceful schank law that i would go to court because i had already paid so much to them but after that i was done with them and there lack of "progress" compared with how much i was paying them. I could tell at that point they were bleeding the money out of me. So we went to court... and the hell of it is...my ex didnt even have a lawyer so that should tell you the capabilities of the schank firm. So the judge (also a discrace to justice and family law) looked at everything schank fam law had put together and decided that my drunk, druggie, cheating, ex wife who uses our child for leverage, decided that the evidence was not sufficient to give me status of "primary parent with 50/50 custody". After court he tells me "well you didnt want to get a private investigator"....WHAT??? I DIDNT NEED AN INVESTIGATOR BECAUSE I HAD ALL THE EVIDENCE!!! In the end i got nothing but less custody of my endangered child and ALOT of money waisted. Now im in debt to schank for thousands and NOTHING to show for it. But they got the name right..."Schank" as in "schank you in the back family law firm". If you have money and you want to give it to schank to help you get any kind of custody of you're child, i have a better idea for you...go light you're BBQ, put your money on the grill, and close the lid. There...I just saved you alot of time. California is the worst place for justice and shame on the schank firm for lying to clients about there ability to fight the draconian family law system in California. read more