Sentences with phrase «more contentious»

By having them already on their side, the client will be protected if the process becomes more contentious later on.

High asset couples, particularly those with children, should also consider the potential benefits of a collaborative divorce approach, such as greater privacy and scheduling flexibility, in place of a more contentious court litigation approach.

Large teams can often slow down the process, incurring more expenses and make it, despite the original intentions, more contentious, sometimes even causing the process to fail.

This can be difficult, but not impossible, if the relationship is more contentious.

It's hit the news, blogs, social media, and forums where parenting approaches are more contentious than politics or religion.

In more contentious cases, I strongly recommend that each person seek the advice of independent counsel.

Your ex is likely to do the same, and this simply makes an already difficult situation more contentious, and the person who will feel it the most, is your child.

This year's election has been more contentious than most.

This can create an imbalance of power or make the argument more contentious from the start.

One of the more contentious custody exchange issues that parents grapple with is who is shuttling the children back and forth.

Divorce Mediation and Collaborative Divorce were highlighted as alternatives to the more contentious process of divorce in today's courts.

Spouses who have an amicable relationship may be able to settle the more contentious issues, especially those dividing property, and file the simple, uncontested process.

It will help to start with topics you're less invested in, building up to more contentious or polarizing ones.

Taking the wrong first steps in divorce will end up making your divorce more contentious, expensive and drawn out.

More contentious issues might include private schools, specialized lessons and expensive summer camps.

More contentious, however, is the case of software patents, applied on computer programs, libraries, and algorithms.

Project Fi's Wi - Fi Assistant is not to be confused with a more contentious «Wi - Fi Assist» feature in iOS.

Bitcoin has experienced hard forks before, into Bitcoin Cash and Bitcoin Gold for example, but the Segwit2x fork is probably more contentious and unpredictable than others.

It also sees the return of one of Logitech's more contentious features, a slick scroll wheel with some fancy friction.

The V20 doubled down on some of its predecessor's more contentious decisions, like the second ticker display above the primary LCD, but did so in a body that, while still oversized, was sleek and accessible.

As such, the comments point to the divisions that could be forming around the bitcoin community, even as it tries to put more contentious scaling debates in the past.

One of Apple's more contentious decisions was to give the new MacBook just one USB Type - C port.

To the ethereum platform, the action was valid to the extent it was able to be executed according to contract terms; to others who invested, it was a much more contentious action.

And it's about nothing more contentious than language.

i) if you permit crosses, you presumably permit symbols of any other religion, and some are more contentious than others.

Although the term «African - American» doesn't substantially plot at all, the more contentious term «Negro» can be noticeably observed even after it fell into disuse in academic and socially acceptable discourse.

The less straightforward, and more contentious, matter concerns whether courts in the UK can go any further than interpretively safeguarding rule - of - law values.

Other issues were more contentious, but ultimately the negotiated budget increased funding to several key areas including:

They're worried about the cost of a lawyer, and some believe that attorneys make situations more contentious than they need to be.

Tax disputes are becoming more complex, and often more contentious.

This appeal was more contentious than its companion case (R. v. Chehil, 2013 SCC 49), in which the court unanimously rejected the accused's appeal.

«We want to get the easier things done and out of the way and then focus on the more contentious issues,» he said.

And as a result, the solution they crafted could wind up making depositions even more contentious than they are now.

Borden's practice consists of probate work and depositions; he passes off more contentious matters to younger lawyers.

In library circles, the only issue more contentious than when students should be taught is exactly what they should be taught.

Bringing in past squabbles will only complicate things and make your situation more contentious.

Those tend to be much more contentious and miserable.

The Court seems to draw together elements from a number of important past decisions such as Annibaldi, Maurin or Kremzow, while leaving aside — at least for now — more contentious ones (one could think of Carpenter as an example here).

Other issues were more contentious, but ultimately the negotiated budget increased funding to several key areas including: $ 28 million for safety improvements at the state's mental health hospitals; $ 7 million for recruiting new public school teachers and retaining existing ones; $ 190 million from the state's emergency fund to address damages from the last round of wildfires; $ 15 million to expand programs that combat homelessness; and, $ 8 million to backfill tuition cuts made to state colleges and universities during the 2015 session.

A more contentious point is the notion that greater access to legal technology and a more advanced legal sector could lead to the advancement of human rights in the country.

And other more contentious issues could be raised such as ways to support «clean coal» or to address the environmental impact of drilling for natural gas in shale formations.

Opposition parties mounted a desperate attempt to make amendments or at least split off some of the more contentious issues so there could be a proper debate.

Overall, this looks like a decent step forward, but critics are raising concerns about an emphasis on habitat issues over more contentious topics like pesticides.

He adds, however, that different approaches often reflect underlying differences in the realities on the ground across the world — and cites one of the more contentious issues coming SBSTA's way: namely, how to measure and monitor the impact of land - use practices on indigenous people.

The sense was that national and local politics in recent years have become even more contentious.

The second part much more contentious than the IPCC would want to admit.

How this will happen is one of the more contentious issues in agriculture.

Making the issue even more contentious, some of the more credible skeptics out there (e.g., Lindzen, Spencer) have been arguing that clouds behave quite differently from that predicted by models.

The second and more contentious issue is that of the recent instrumental record.

This year the arts have been subject to a double squeeze — big falls in business contributions to the arts (making the renewal of BP's sponsorship deal with Tate even more contentious) coupled with the much documented cuts to funding from the public sector, despite this visitor numbers at galleries have remained stable, highlighting that there is still much to celebrate.