A client had already spent a substantial amount on another attorney to obtain a custody order granting her sole physical custody and legal-decision making authority, due to her husband’s untreated mental illness. Although she wanted a divorce, the court issued a decree of legal separation due to a legal technicality. Her husband went into treatment for his mental illness and became more stable on medication. He then sought equal parenting time, joint legal decision-making, and a decrease in his child support. My client did not want to change the parenting arrangement, as the children were very young (pre-school and first grade), and her husband lived out of state and was seeking extended parenting time during summer and holidays without any supervision despite his previous psychotic episodes. My client worked part-time for the public school and needed the child support. She also wanted a divorce. We opposed his requests, believing that his limited rights of contact were in the best interest of the children until there was a proven track record of wellness and that he needed to pay his back child support and start paying current support. After a few court hearings, we obtained the divorce and maintained my client’s sole custody and legal-decision-making authority with supervised parenting time for the children’s father. We prevented a decrease in the child support, and we obtained a court order that the children’s father make monthly payments on his accumulated child support arrearage of more than $15,000.