There is nothing more emotionally charged than litigation dissolving marriages and determining child custody.

Judges and juries can make their decisions more easily when presented with evidence supported by fact.

Katherine Scardino represented a Surgeon in a divorce case, seeking custody of his children due to the fact that his wife was addicted to alcohol and “speed”.

Investigators were able to trace the wife’s purchase of amphetamines through an Internet prescription service that had recently been “busted” by the Feds for dispensing prescriptions without proper Doctor visits.

During the course of our surveillance while the “good Doctor” was out of town with his kids, his wife had a male spend the night at their house.   Our background check revealed that this individual had lengthy criminal history.  When the wife was presented with all the evidence against her she agreed to move out of the house and relinquish custody of the children.

Our client, a retired airline pilot, came to Gradoni & Associates before he ever hired an Attorney.  Our client believed that his wife spent a great deal of time on the phone, talking with her Psychiatrist.  It was decided that we would place his wife under surveillance.  During the surveillance activity we learned that the Psychiatrist was having sessions with our client’s wife in motel rooms both in Houston and in San Antonio.  In addition, our forensic computer specialist, Aaron Hughes, recovered a number of incriminating emails on the husband and wife’s shared computer.  Armed with all of the evidence provided by Gradoni & Associates in the form of surveillance photos, emails, and cell phone records, our client secured the services of an Attorney and initiated a divorce in Harris County.

The divorce action took its normal course.  The evidence was not made known until after the wife’s deposition and the deposition of the Psychiatrist, who was, at that time, “happily married”.

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