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Beth Swendsen-Dowd

Firm: Beth Swendsen-Dowd, Esq. PC

220 Nassau Blvd , Garden City South , New York 11530

Practice Areas: Child Custody

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“r every little thing, and nothing would get done. You have to PLEAD to her to do her job. She won’”

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Help with understanding emergency custody | Aug 24, 2026 | Sourced from Reddit
Location: Virginia and New York My 16-year-old niece lives in New York with her mother. My sister has been investigated by CPS 4 times in the past for her treatment of my niece. My niece is currently visiting me in Virginia. My niece has told me about abuse and medical neglect including giving her medication that's not prescribed to her and is very dangerous and has given her weed. She also constantly refuses to address or doesn't care to address her disability/medical needs. My niece wants to live with me permanently. I want to know whether I can obtain custody or guardianship and whether Virginia has emergency jurisdiction.
20yrs+ Freelancer Mom (48f) struggling with custody schedule as well as threats about it. | Aug 16, 2026 | Sourced from Reddit
I’ve been a freelancer makeup artist for commercial photo shoots and events for 20 years. In my industry, there are no full time/part time positions as they hire freelancers for each gigs. I’ve been separated for 5 yrs and the partner and I always had a flex schedule for my two young kids but I had them 60/40. I had them Fri&Sat every weekend for over 4 years till last Nov when I asked for it to be every other weekend. I recently have been taken to court, with stipulations with the flex schedule and solid Holiday plans which has not finalized and we have a follow up court coming in 2 weeks. They have an attorney and I declined for assigned attorney because I have always been accommodating, appreciative, and understanding with the fact that I am a freelancer and thought the stipulations I wanted revised or added were reasonable as I always do prioritize the kids. I never took them to child support due to their threats to me about suicide, how they don’t have anything, and that I would owe them support because I own my apt, I have investments and they have nothing. I have an Scorp, I pay myself and he has an LLC and he pays himself and I know for sure that I make less than him. The first appearance in court in front of the judge happened last week. The judge did not like my freelance life, although I have been the…

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