Mr. Dunlavey represented a father. Father lives out of state and mom had their child. Mom is unable to safely care for their child, so father filed a petition for child custody and came twice to Oregon to look for his child. Father asked the sheriff’s department to help serve the custody paperwork on mom. The sheriff’s department was unable to find mom and child so they didn’t serve the paperwork. So, the Oregon Department of Human Services (child welfare) filed a petition with the juvenile court alleging that the agency should be named the legal guardian because they say that father has failed to protect the child from mom. After trial, the judge agreed with Mr. Dunlavey’s argument that father had done everything he legally could do to protect his child and ordered that he have the child returned to his care (now that the child has been located).