Won Twice
One Father, Two Custody Battles, and the Playbook That Never Failed
Carl Dixon is a U.S. military veteran and father of four who has done something almost no father in America can say: he has won Sole Managing Conservatorship of his children not once, but twice — in two different decades, against two different mothers, using a playbook that never failed.
The first time, he was twenty-four, a young father blindsided by a photograph on his door. The second time, he was a veteran facing a system that took his job, his savings, and ninety-nine days of silence before it finally gave him back his children — legally, permanently, on paper.
Won Twice is both of those stories, told without flinching — the strategy of Sun Tzu, the tactics of Robert Greene’s 48 Laws of Power, and a faith strong enough to hold a man together when neither strategy nor tactics were working yet.
About This Book
This is not a self-help book. It is a field report from inside two custody battles that most fathers would not have survived — and a detailed account of the discipline, documentation, and faith that made the difference both times.
What’s Inside
The full story of both custody battles, told in sequence
The documentation strategy that held up in court — twice
How Sun Tzu and the 48 Laws of Power apply to family court
The role of faith when strategy alone isn’t enough
What winning actually looks like — and what it costs
Book 1 of The Father’s Playbook™ Series
The Co-Parenting Code
A Practical Guide for Any Parent Navigating High-Conflict Custody
If you’re navigating a high-conflict custody dispute, you don’t need another book about how unfair the system is. You need a working system of your own.
The Co-Parenting Code is a practical, field-tested guide built from the same tools Carl Dixon used to win Sole Managing Conservatorship of his children — twice, in two different decades. This isn’t a memoir. It’s the toolkit: how to document what actually matters, how courts really evaluate a child’s best interest, how to work with a Guardian ad Litem, how to stay composed under provocation designed to make you look unstable, and how to heal — body, mind, and spirit — while still in the middle of the fight.
Built for any parent, in any state, protecting their children from a system, and sometimes a person, that can be brutally unfair. You are not powerless. You just need the code.
About This Book
This is not a memoir. It is a field-tested system — built from real custody battles, real courtrooms, and the hard-won knowledge of what actually works when the stakes are your children.
What’s Inside
How to document what actually matters in court
How courts really evaluate a child’s best interest
How to work effectively with a Guardian ad Litem
How to stay composed under deliberate provocation
How to heal — body, mind, and spirit — while still in the fight
Book 2 of The Father’s Playbook™ Series
What Fathers Are Saying
“I read Won Twice in two days. I’ve been in a custody battle for three years and this is the first thing I’ve read that actually told me what to do.”
Father of two, Texas
“The A.S.S.I.S.T. Method changed how I think about every interaction with my co-parent. I stopped reacting and started documenting. My attorney noticed the difference.”
Veteran, North Carolina
“I bought copies for every man in my men’s group. Carl’s work is the most practical thing I’ve seen on fatherhood and custody. No fluff. Just the playbook.”
Men’s Ministry Leader, Georgia