 Now, a lot of times there is an intersection of criminal law and family law. Now if you've been arrested for domestic violence, there could be a lot of other things going on outside of the charge that you're facing in criminal law. Now on the family law side of things, you could potentially be in a situation where custody of your children becomes an issue based on the fact that you've been arrested. Now it becomes a much bigger issue if there was already custody concerns that were being worked out and the court was in charge of. New custody concerns could also come out. What you need to remember is your criminal attorney is not a family law attorney. You always need to make sure that you hire someone in the realm of family law who specializes in those hearings. Now a family hearing that has some sort of hold could potentially come over and be used in a criminal case. However, when it comes to children, the judge in charge of the family law case is always going to come first and what they say is going to go. So my best advice to anyone facing an issue like this is to make sure you get someone on your team in family court and let them take the lead in any issues that come up with child custody. Carlson Meisner, Hardin-Haslet, protecting your rights since 1971.