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In your vast experience are fathers penalized for filing for sole custody?
 
Does one file for sole custody and then judge rules that, no,  joint with residential placement is appropriate? Do you shoot for the moon and are put on a star by the Judge?

Does one file for joint and request residential placement?

Would father filing for sole with visitation for mother appear to be committing social suicide in the eyes of most courts?

>In your vast experience are fathers penalized for filing for
>sole custody?

No.

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>Does one file for sole custody and then judge rules that, no,
>joint with residential placement is appropriate? Do you shoot
>for the moon and are put on a star by the Judge?

No, you shoot the judge and then escape to the stars.

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>Does one file for joint and request residential placement?

No, one smokes a joint and requests a placemat.

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>Would father filing for sole with visitation for mother appear
>to be committing social suicide in the eyes of most courts?

I'm being silly because your questions are silly. It doesn't matter what most courts would do. What matters is what the judge in YOUR COURT will do. And, that can be ascertained by sitting in the courtroom and watching a few days of hearings, or, by finding an attorney who has experience wth the judge involved and that judge's predispositions.

There's no reason to guess. Find out and proceed from there.