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Pulling The Wool Back Off The Eyes: A ‘Custody Dispute’ Case Study
Our client based in Tyne and Wear contacted us as they were far along in a bitter custody battle with their ex-partner and starting to lose ground. The client was the father and felt that his case was not being fully and honestly considered because the courts, social services, police and other partnership agencies felt automatically aligned to support the mother in matters of this ilk.
Custody Dispute investigations are fast replacing Cheating Spouse investigations here at Surmount as the most popular engagement for service we receive from private clients. More and more people are feeling like their children could be at risk from their ex or the people they associate with and find local authority agencies and police are not supportive in acquiring the evidence needed in order to formulate child protection plans, formal custody documents and courts orders. Read more about Pulling The Wool Back Off The Eyes: A ‘Custody Dispute’ Case Study …
We offer a variety of different support packages to businesses and organisations around Newcastle and the North East when it comes to concerns they may have around one of their employees and how said employee’s behaviour can impact the company from a reputational or security point of view. 
We offer a discreet, highly secure, extremely professional protected asset delivery service to ensure any precious, valuable and/or confidential item is delivered anywhere in the UK. We also, where and when required, work nationally.
For those unaware, a LOCUS report is a formal document made up of various other pieces of evidence that is designed to explain and identify the physical facts of how and where an accident or incident has occurred. The overall document when broken down will contain things such as sketch plans, photographs, localised pertinent intelligence and the authoring agent’s written report. In our area of work within private investigation, they are most commonly used in legal cases such as insurance claims and defence cases pertaining to road traffic collisions and accidents resulting in injury. 
Our client hired us because she was convinced her husband of many, many years was cheating on her with one of his customers.
We’re often told how ‘exciting’ our job must be as PIs and asked what a typical day is like for a private investigator. In truth, no two days are often the same and at Surmount we frequently break our days into different facets: