Our firm was contacted by a concerned mother in Kentucky who had not heard from her son in months and was really concerned about his well being. The only information mom had about her son was his last known employment location. Investigator Haywood hit the streets and found out from the former job that he…

Our firm was hired by a female who was aware that her father had been in a long time extra marital affair. She believed that, as a result of this affair, he had fathered at least one child. Investigators conducted database searches which identified the other half of the extra marital affair, allowing us to…

Our Client had engaged in a custodial agreement that before they traveled with their 10 year old daughter on any trip, they must inform the other parent the identify and information of any adults accompanying them. Our Client believed that the child’s father would be taking a trip with his girlfriend and requested that we…

Our firm was contacted by another Investigative firm in Washington D.C., who were working a divorce case which involved infidelity. Their client believed that her husband was traveling to Houston to have a romantic weekend with his ex wife. We were asked to partner with the Washington investigators in confirming the illicit weekend on the…

Our Client was involved in a custody dispute with his ex-wife. There was an injunction in place stating that the ex-wife could not drink alcohol in front of the child, since it was alleged she had a drinking problem. Gradoni & Associates Investigates On two separate occasions, Investigator Kelli South was able to film mom…

Attorney Amy Montgomery represented a father who separated from his wife because his wife was having an affair with a co-worker. The couple had two small children that lived with the biological mother after the separation. The court ordered that the mother was not to have any male visitors in her residence between the hours…

We were contacted by a lady in Missouri who was trying to serve her common law husband with a court order which had been issued by a court as a result of family violence. The client provided us with the address of her ex-boyfriend which turned out to be a very secure high rise in…

Infidelity at its Worse Laura Deal represented a client who believed her husband was having an affair with a married lady whose child went to school with hers and also worked with her husband. Laura’s client believed that her husband was actually bringing the girlfriend over to their house in the early morning hours after…

Attorney Ellen A Yarrell represented a client involved in a custody litigation with her child’s father. The father was an alcoholic who it was believed would travel to various construction jobs he supervised during the day drinking beer. We took on the case! During a week’s worth of surveillance 3 years ago Will Hodge caught…

Midlife Crisis Two concerned parents found our firm as a result of searching for private investigators on the web and asked that we help them out involving a situation involving their daughter who had been married a number of years and had 3 children with her husband. Out of the blue the husband told his…

A concerned wife in New York found our company through the internet after searching for private investigators in Houston and landed on our website. Her husband was traveling to the Houston area to visit his mother in a nursing home but she suspected he might be visiting someone else during his stay. The client was…

Hal Smith, an attorney in Wichita Falls who had used our services in the past, contacted us recently about a child abduction. Hal’s clients were the biological grandparents of the child in question who had legal custody. The biological mother and her new boyfriend fled the area with the child and were believed headed to…

I would like to introduce you to Butch. One of our clients who we had previously helped in a child custody case wanted us to do a background investigation on his ex-wife’s new boyfriend who would be around his children. God bless Facebook! The new boyfriend posted Butch his pit bull on Facebook holding his…

Long Reach from New Jersey We were contacted by a lady in New Jersey who had identified our firm as a result of an internet search. The female had been looking at her husband’s phone and found that there was a number of calls to a particular female living in the Sugar Land area. Our…

Our firm was hired by a Real Estate Agent who was being stalked by a female who was the former girlfriend of the real estate agent’s current boyfriend. Our client’s efforts to get police involved were not successful. Gradoni & Associates Gets Involved Investigators presented the stalker with a cease and desist letter telling her…

Attorney Ruth L. Vernier represented two grandparents who had custody of their granddaughter. Their daughter, the child’s mother, had died a few years ago and the grandparents had custody due to the fact that the biological father had a drinking problem. The biological father, who was living with his brother, had filed for full custody.…

Our client, a single mom, entered into a relationship with a male who told her he was a doctor. This boyfriend was very secretive regarding where he lived, but was able to talk our client into giving him a “a sizeable loan”. She also paid to repair the car he was driving. He then disappeared.…

An attorney from Memphis, TN contacted our office, requesting that we provide surveillance on his sister’s husband in Houston. The attorney went on to say that his sister, who had a severe brain injury, was living at home with her husband. The husband was supposed to provide various types of support for our client’s sister,…

Our firm was hired by a set of grandparents who had raised their daughter’s child from the age of 4 months to 5 years of age. The biological mother was never capable of caring for the child property and had a history of drug and prostitution priors in Houston. Out of the blue, the mother…

Attorney Lindsey M. Nemanich represented the father of a 3 year old boy who was in a custody battle with his ex-wife, a stewardess. The ex-wife had refused to provide her new address or the location of the daycare the son was attending. Gradoni & Associates Gets Involved When our client ended a visitation period…

Attorney Ruth L. Vernier represented a dad who was in the process of divorcing his wife and attempting to get custody of their two children. The pair were still living together when the dad walked in the bedroom finding his wife Skyping naked with a male stranger. Gradoni & Associates Investigates The Infidelity A Real…

Gradoni & Associates was hired by a Houston business man who had a number of concerns regarding the care for his father, who is in the acute stages of Alzheimer’s disease. Our client’s father had been living with his wife for 30 years and was quite well off financially. The wife placed her husband in…

Attorney Dominick Derose represented a mom who was trying to change the custody terms of her divorce decree, which gave her ex­-husband primary custody of their child. One of the conditions of the final decree was that the ex-husband was to refrain from drinking alcoholic beverages while he had possession of the child. Gradoni &…

VIOLATION OF CUSTODIAL REQUIREMENTS Attorney Diane Carvillo represented a mom who was trying to prove that her ex-husband was not following the court ordered final judg­ment. Due to the husband’s alcohol problems, during weekend visitation his two children were not allowed to drive with him in a vehicle or spend the night at his residence.…

Our family law client was trying to serve change of custody pa­pers to an elusive morn. As a result of Facebook searches we learned that the mom was going to pose naked at a party for art­ists in a private home. The Plan The plan was to serve the elusive mom during the party and…

One of our client’s legal assistants asked that we background an adult male who was dating her 16 year old child. Team Gradoni Investigates As a result of our background investigation, we determined that our future son-­in-law was a registered sex offender. His next visit to his girl­friend’s house didn’t go too well for him…

Attorney Kate McConnico represented an individual who had family law matters in Harris County, TX and Atlanta, GA with his ex-wife. Gradoni & Associates’ investigators received a phone call on a Thursday morning from Kate’s Client who stated that the local Constables were unable to serve papers on his former wife, who lived in an…

Attorney Alice J. O’Neill and Attorney Georgann “GiGi” Oglesby represented a father who was seeking custody of his two children. The father alleged that the mother had been involved in an extra-marital affair with a male who was heavily involved in personal narcotics use. Due to the gravity of the situation, Gradoni & Associates was…

Attorney Ellen Elkins Grimes represented an individual who had been divorced a number of years. As a condition of the divorce Ellen’s client, a retired doctor, had to pay for the ex-wife’s residence, even though the children were grown and married, unless another male resided in the residence for a continual period of 14 days.…

Our Client was frustrated by her former husband, who claimed to have no employment and was unable to pay any child support. Our Client believed that her former husband was, in fact, working, based on conversations she had with her children about their weekend visits. Investigator Paul Wisdom Stake’s Out Daddy Investigator Paul Wisdom surveilled…

Attorney Kim Ogg represented a father who was seeking full custody his children. The children’s mother had been previously ordered by the court to not associate with her Registered Sex Offender boyfriend. Gradoni’s Family Detectives Investigate Prior to the hearing Investigators surveilled the mother, documenting her spending the night with the Registered Sex Offender. The…

Attorney Kim Ogg represented a father who had temporary custody of his children. The biological mother had been dating a Registered Sex Offender and it had been ordered that the mother not associate with the Sex Offender whatsoever. It was suspected that the mother was violating the order. To get the truth of the matter,…

Attorney Katherine Scardino represented a business man who had fathered a child with a woman who was gainfully employed as a topless dancer. The mother and father had joint custody of the child, each alternating weeks of custody. The father had heard that the mother was involved in a sexually oriented business, engaging in the business…

A distraught mother came to us because her husband had taken her two children from the home and she did not know their whereabouts but believed that they were living in a hotel. The husband had been out of work for some time and was depressed. Our client had hired an attorney but they could…

Gary Polland represented a couple who had been given a foster child by CPS on the date of the child’s birth because the child had drugs in her system. After a year and a half, the biological father filed for custody. The case was fast tracked for Trial. The biological mother has a lengthy criminal…

Attorney Gary Polland represented a couple who had been given a foster child by CPS on the date of the child’s birth because the child had drugs in her system. After a year and a half, the biological father filed for custody. The case was fast tracked for Trial. J.J. Gradoni Investigates The biological mother…

The biological dad of a two year old child hired us to find his daughter. The father and mother of the child had been separated for over two years. While the dad was overseas, the mother moved and refused to tell the father where she was living or give him access to the 2 year…

Attorney Laura Dale represented a doctor in Sweden, who had been given custody of his son in the Swedish Courts. The mother, an American, took her son to the Houston/Beaumont area for a vacation and never returned. Gradoni Detectives Take on The Case Our mission was to locate Mom and the child so that she…

We were asked by an individual to surveil his wife while he was out of town in order to identify her boyfriend. Gradoni Investigates Infidelity Claims During the course of a week-long surveillance, we obtained video on a daily basis of the wife with her boyfriend. On one Friday evening, we were able to obtain…

Attorney Frank V. Panzica represented a father who had primary custody of his child. The child’s mother became very sick and her new boyfriend showed up with Power of Attorney over all of her matters. Frank believed that the new boyfriend had a number of issues in the State of Florida. Gradoni Investigates Boyfriend’s Background…

Attorney Robert Fickman represented a female charged with pointing a gun at her abusive husband. The Defendant had been physically abused by the Complainant for a long period of time. When the Complainant refused to leave after an abusive incident with the Defendant, she went to the closet to retrieve a gun to protect herself. The…

Attorneys Susan Myers and Laura Dale represented an individual in a divorce action who felt very certain that his wife was having an affair, amongst other things. Gradoni & Associates Investigates During the course of surveillance investigators identified one of the wife’s boyfriends, a prominent individual in Fort Bend County. The case is not over…

Attorney Katherine Scardino represented a Surgeon in a divorce case, seeking custody of his children due to the fact that his wife was addicted to alcohol and “speed”. Investigators were able to trace the wife’s purchase of amphetamines through an Internet prescription service that had recently been “busted” by the Feds for dispensing prescriptions without…

Our client, a retired airline pilot, came to Gradoni & Associates before he ever hired an Attorney. Our client believed that his wife spent a great deal of time on the phone, talking with her Psychiatrist. It was decided that we would place his wife under surveillance. Gradoni Detectives Stakeout Hotel During the surveillance activity…

One of our clients suspected that her husband had a girlfriend. We were advised that the husband had booked a flight from Houston, TX to Reno, NV. We decided to tag along. Gradoni Detectives Follow Suspect to Nevada We followed the husband to a casino where he got a room. Finally, that night, we saw…

Attorney Lynn Kamin represented a man who was trying to divorce his wife. Gradoni & Associates Watch the House Investigators had successfully documented the wife’s boyfriend spending the night at the family residence. The day the hearing was scheduled to take place, the opposing parties became aware that investigators were present and ready to testify…

Attorney Ellen Grimes represented a lady who was trying to gain custody of her small child. Gradoni’s Team Surveills the Husband During the course of surveillance the husband was filmed leaving the child alone in the car for 15 minutes. This information was invaluable in getting a favorable custody verdict for the client. RESULT BASED…

Attorney Trent Gaither represented a businessman who was charged with assaulting his former girlfriend. Our Detectives Investigate the Assault Investigators were able to establish through police calls for service and witnesses that the Complainant was vindictive and very upset that the Defendant had terminated the relationship. The jury was out 16 hours before returning an…

An individual hired Gradoni & Associates to follow her husband because his actions indicated to her that he might be having an affair. Gradoni & Associates Surveils The Husband Investigators followed the husband on various occasions and found that he liked to visit a certain adult bookstore, joining up with other males in a private…

Criminal Mischief: Dismissed in Court Attorney Alan Cohen represented a former Harris County Deputy who was on probation for a family violence case involving the deputy’s ex-wife. The ex-wife told the Humble Police Department that her car had been keyed at work. The ex-wife also told officers that co-workers had observed an individual matching her…