Child Custody Investigations in Weston, FL
The guard gate keeps strangers out. It does not tell a Broward judge what happens on the other parent's weekends. We document that, lawfully and on video.
A Judge Needs Facts, and Facts Are Hard to Get Behind a Guard Gate
Broward family judges set parenting plans on the child's best interests under Chapter 61 of the Florida Statutes. At the West Regional Courthouse in Plantation, that means a judge hears two parents describe the same Saturday and decides which one to believe. Your description of the other household is your word. Dated footage of who drove through the Royal Palm gate at midnight is evidence.
Wasser Investigations has worked Weston custody cases since 1985. Travis Wasser runs each one personally, from the first phone call to the witness stand. We document exchanges, overnight guests, drinking at Weston Town Center restaurants during parenting time, and the school pickups that quietly get handed to a sitter. The report follows your timesharing calendar day by day, so a judge can match what we saw against what the order required.
Weston adds two complications most cities do not have. The first is physical: guard-gated neighborhoods, HOA patrols, and a street grid designed to notice outsiders. The second is geographic: many Weston families have a parent, a business or a second home in Latin America, and custody disputes here often involve a passport, a flight, or an asset in another country. We handle both.
Weston Parents With Doubts, and Attorneys Who Need Evidence
For Parents: You Have Doubts About What Happens at the Other Home
Your child came back talking about someone new in the house. The other parent's "work trip" lined up with a weekend they were supposed to have the kids. You suspect drinking, or you suspect a move out of state is being planned without telling you. Tell us what you have noticed. We will explain what Florida law allows us to document, what it does not, and we will tell you plainly if the other parent appears to be doing fine. That answer is worth having before you spend money on a motion.
For Attorneys: Footage That Holds Up at the West Regional Courthouse
You receive time-stamped video, photographs, a chain-of-custody record, and an investigator who has testified in Broward and Miami-Dade family courts for decades. We build the surveillance plan around the timesharing schedule and the filing you are preparing: a modification, a contempt motion, a relocation objection, or a request for supervised timesharing. For families with international ties, we also run the background and locate work on the person overseas before the hearing.
Six Things That Change Parenting Plans
Overnight guests during timesharing
We log arrivals and departures and run a background check on the guest. The court should know who is sleeping under the same roof as your child, and so should you.
Alcohol and drug use
Drinking at a Town Center bar or a Weston Hills clubhouse during parenting time, then driving the kids home. Associates with drug histories. We record it from public property at a lawful distance.
Supervision
Children left alone, left with a nanny nobody vetted, or left with a relative or partner the court has already ordered away from them.
Living conditions and residence
Whether the other parent actually lives at the address in the parenting plan or at a partner's home in Savanna or The Ridges, and who else comes and goes.
Schedule compliance
Late pickups at Everglades Elementary or Falcon Cove, skipped exchanges, school absences, and work claims that do not match where the car was parked.
Relocation and violation of orders
Moving boxes, a lease in another county, a one-way ticket, or a child's passport renewal filed without your consent. We document the early signs so your attorney can act before the move, not after.
Custody Surveillance Inside Gated Communities
A strange car does not sit unnoticed on a Weston cul-de-sac for long, and a guard gate stops us from following a subject home. So we do not try. We work the public side: the school line, the drive down Weston Road, the parking lots at Town Center, the on-ramp to I-75, the restaurant on a Friday night. Routes are planned before the session starts, and vehicles are rotated so no guard or neighbor sees the same one twice.
We never make contact with the children or the other parent, and we do not trespass or talk our way past a gate. If a session becomes risky, we end it and come back another day. A burned surveillance is worse than no surveillance, because it hands the other side a story about harassment.
Your Weston Custody File
- Time-stamped video and photographs from every session
- A written report organized around the timesharing calendar
- Background reports on any adult seen with your children, including people located outside the United States
- Documented chain of custody for every piece of evidence
- Investigator testimony at the West Regional Courthouse in Plantation or the Broward County Courthouse in Fort Lauderdale
Questions Weston Parents Ask Before Hiring Us
Is it legal to follow someone in Weston?
Yes, on public roads, in parking lots and at businesses open to the public. We do not enter gated property without authorization, record audio, go inside homes, or approach children. The gate is a boundary we respect, which is why we plan around the route instead.
Will my ex know I hired an investigator?
Only you and your attorney know. We stay off the home street, rotate vehicles, and keep a distance that HOA patrols and neighbors do not register. In a community built around security, that restraint is most of the skill.
Do you follow my child to school?
We follow the parent. If the parent does the drop-off, we document it from a distance and stay with the parent afterward. We never approach, question or photograph children up close.
Can you investigate the other parent's life outside the country?
Yes. Many Weston custody cases involve a parent or partner with a home or business in Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil or elsewhere in Latin America. We run background, locate and asset work overseas through lawful channels and document the Florida side ourselves. We cannot tap phones or access private accounts anywhere, and we will tell you so.
What should I expect to pay?
Surveillance is billed hourly against a written estimate you approve first. Weston cases usually take two to four sessions, and the 45-minute drive from Coral Gables is built into the schedule, not billed as a surprise. International background work is quoted by country before we start. The first call is free.
Find Out What Happens When the Kids Are Not With You
Call Travis Wasser at (305) 278-8700. Tell him what you have seen, and he will tell you what can be documented, how long it should take, and what it will cost.
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