A custody dispute pulls your address back into public view: new home, new filings, updated registrations, and people-search sites re-list it within weeks. You can't hold back what the court needs or what your attorney has to disclose, but you can take down the publicly searchable copy anyone can pull up. Delist removes your personal information from the internet and keeps re-filing when a broker puts it back.
Start your free scan →Every move, filing, and re-registration in a custody case is a public record. Data brokers are built to find and aggregate those records, and they do it within weeks. Here's where your new address leaks back into view.
New lease, license update, voter re-registration, utilities: each one feeds broker pipelines. Soon after you move, people-search sites list your current location, often right next to your old household and a co-parent's name.
Custody filings and the address you disclose in the case are legal records. They stay in the court system, between you, your attorney, and the court. The problem is the second copy: the version brokers rebuild from public records and publish for anyone to search. That copy is the one we take down.
A former partner knows your name, your relatives, where you used to live. What a custody dispute changes is your new address and current phone, and a people-search site can hand those over in a couple of clicks. That part you can control: clearing the public listings keeps your address off an ex's casual search.
Brokers connect records by shared address and family relationship. Your listing names a co-parent and household members as "associated people," and their listings can point back to you. Cutting those links matters as much as clearing your own listing.
Background reading: How public records directories work
See which sites are listing your new address, former names, and the household links between you and a co-parent right now.
Start your free scan →We scan the web for every name variation, both old and new addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses. You'll see exactly which sites hold your information and what they've linked to your current location.
We submit opt-outs for every listing we find, covering current and former names. Where a listing ties you to a co-parent or household member, we work to break the public "associated people" link too.
We verify each removal after it processes. When a broker stalls or ignores the request, we escalate. When a listing reappears, we re-file.
Updated registrations and data-source refreshes generate new listings, especially while a case is active. We run a full scan every month and re-file when your new location reappears, not just for the first round but every time it comes back.
| Manual opt-outs | Generic privacy tools | Delist.ai | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Places covered | 10-20 (if you find the time) | 50-200 | Brokers, AI, search, breach databases |
| Name variation coverage | Must search each separately | Limited | All known names |
| Old + new address coverage | Must track both yourself | Primary only | Full history |
| Household-link removal | Easy to miss | Rarely | We go after it |
| Re-listing detection | You notice it yourself | Periodic | Monthly scans |
| Time investment | Hours per month | Setup + periodic check-ins | We handle filing + follow-up |
During. New listings show up when you move and re-register, not when the case is decided. The sooner we start filing removals, the less time your new address sits searchable while the case is active.
No. Court filings, custody orders, and the address your attorney has to disclose stay where they are. Those are legal records, not data-broker listings. What we remove is the publicly searchable copy: the people-search sites that let anyone pull up your new address in a couple of clicks. To keep your address off the court file itself, ask your family-law attorney about address-confidentiality options or a substitute service address in your state.
No. Co-parenting still runs through the normal channels: your attorney, the court, a parenting app, whatever the order sets. We only take down the public directory copy that anyone on the internet can search, not just your co-parent. Legal contact and the information exchange the case requires stay untouched.
That's beyond a routine privacy cleanup, and you don't have to sort it alone. The National Domestic Violence Hotline (1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788) is available 24/7 and confidential, and our guide for survivors covers address-confidentiality programs and safety planning. Broker removal is one piece of that plan, the piece you can start today, but it isn't the whole plan.
Family plans cover household members. Children mostly appear on listings as "associated people" linked by a shared address, so removing yours breaks that link. Older children with their own listings get their own coverage under the plan.
A free scan shows which sites are listing your current and former addresses, name variations, and household connections. We start removing what we find from there.
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