38-year old Samuel Lee Horton was arrested and brought back to the United States after FBI investigators discovered that he had fled to Phuket, Thailand with his 3-year old daughter.

Horton and his wife are divorced and have a son and daughter together.  Horton was granted visitation rights, but denied custody rights of his children after the divorce.  Last year, Horton forged his wife's signature in order to obtain a passport for his young daughter before fleeing to Thailand with her.  Horton had told his wife we was taking their daughter to Disney World.  Horton had a job and had enrolled the girl in school in Thailand.

Horton has already plead guilty to the charge of falsifying a document and will face a charge of violating a custody order in federal court.  Horton faces up to ten years in prison for the charges.

If you or someone you know is fighting for their child custody rights, contact the Raleigh child custody lawyers of Marshall & Taylor P.C. at 919-833-1040 to learn more about your rights. 

Stacy Doss of California adopted her daughter Vanessa before she was even born.  Doss adopted Vanessa from a single pregnant woman in Dayton, Ohio who said she didn't know the baby's father.  In fact, the father was a part of the woman's life and even fathered two of her four children.

DNA tests prove that Benjamin Mills Jr. is Vanessa's father and now, he is trying to claim custody of the two-year old.  Mills has a record of domestic violence and drug possession, which Doss hoped would serve in her favor.  However, after a long battle, judges agreed to give custody of Vanessa to her birth father in Ohio.  Doss stated plans to appeal the courts decision.  

If you or someone you know are facing a child custody dispute, contact the Raleigh child custody lawyers of Marshall & Taylor, P.C. at 919-833-1040 to learn more about your rights.