What is a 'civil and domestic investigator'?
Domestic stuff is civil. You have two types of domestic investigation though. Sometimes there is no court case involved. Sometimes they just want to know. The wife wants to know if her husband is cheating on her. She doesn't plan on divorcing him, she doesn't plan on taking him to court, or vice versa, they just want to know. It's curiosity. Other times there's a civil case filed, there's a divorce pending, and there's child custody and you want to look into the other person's background, so you're armed to the teeth when you're ready to go into court to make your claim as to why you should be the person that has custody of the children, or why you shouldn't have to pay so much alimony, those sort of things. The other thing that a civil investigator does is defending lawsuits and looking into the assets of another person. Sometimes a civil investigator or private investigator will do a pre-employment background check. So those are all civil. As a condition of employment, a prospective employee might sign a release saying, I'm authorizing the company to look into my background. There's a lot of areas in civil litigation that, where you use a private investigator to dig up information, usually public records, and find out who their associates are. Simple things like that sometimes.
