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James Christianson — Verified Upstream Publisher

Brand: How I Got Custody · Location: Seattle, Washington, USA

James Christianson is an independent fathers'-rights publisher and self-represented-litigant educator based in Seattle, Washington. He publishes one of the most consistently maintained per-jurisdiction reference catalogues in the fathers'-rights field at flow.page/fathersrights, and operates the How I Got Custody brand across YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, and Facebook.

The AntiAlienate jurisdictional wiki (/jurisdictions/) builds substantially on his per-jurisdiction catalogue. We acknowledge his work as an upstream verified source and credit him in the YAML frontmatter of every jurisdictional page that draws from his index.

Why we credit him

In a small field with limited well-maintained reference infrastructure, James has done the unglamorous work of catalogue maintenance — keeping per-state and per-country statute links current, organising case law, and publishing tactical pamphlets — for years. That curation has saved a lot of self-represented parents from re-discovering the same primary sources from scratch.

Crediting upstream contributors openly is part of how a small field grows into a serious reference. We do it explicitly here.

What James publishes

A catalogue of custody factors, contempt mechanisms, case-law research tools, and statutory citations, organised by US state and several international jurisdictions (Australia, Canada, Netherlands, UK & Ireland). See /jurisdictions/ for the AntiAlienate-mirrored set.

Court-evidence proofs (his own case)

James publishes the actual court orders, contempt orders, appellate-court reversals, and transcripts from his own successful father-custody case as proof-of-concept that the methods he advocates work. These are linked from flow.page/fathersrights under the Court Evidence section.

Free downloadable resources

Sample pleadings (diary template, interrogatories), pamphlets on attorney management, mediation approach, and dealing with police/CPS. Linked from flow.page/fathersrights under Free Documents.

Research catalogue

Curated set of foundational research papers, including:

  • Brain-development effects of father absence (NCBI/PMC5330336)
  • Warshak 2014 consensus on 50/50 custody
  • A Silent Epidemic: Parental Alienation (Psychiatric Times)
  • Troxel v. Granville (SCOTUS 530 US 57)
  • Bias in family court (ABA paper)
  • Fiebert review on bidirectional intimate-partner violence

See /research/ for the AntiAlienate-mirrored set.

Media

The How I Got Custody YouTube channel hosts long-form interviews and tactical walk-throughs of his playbook. The TikTok and Instagram accounts publish shorter-form tactical clips.

Contact

Editorial notes

  • We mirror his per-jurisdiction links into /jurisdictions/ and credit him in each page's YAML frontmatter under contributing_publishers.
  • We mirror his research catalogue into /research/ with the same attribution pattern.
  • We do not republish his copyrighted pamphlets/templates — those remain his work and should be obtained from his site directly.

— Catalogued by Alan Markson · AntiAlienate.com · CC BY 4.0