Ria enumerates how the CS, guided by your highest values, helps you protect your children from the fall -
out of divorce throughout the process, and helps secure a healthier co-parenting context for raising your children in the years to come.
Not exact matches
The best way for a parent to get maximum power, protections, and right is to get: 1) sole legal custody (so that the parent can make all major decisions without his input and without court approval); 2) the most days and overnights
of parenting time as the court will allow; and 3) very specific language
throughout the final custody /
divorce order that spells
out exactly which activities and behaviors that the parents must either perform or are prohibited from doing (so that if the other parent violates, then it will be easier to prove the violation to the court and therefore get some sort
of remedy, such as finding the other parent in contempt
of court).
Throughout my years
of practicing as a Poughkeepsie matrimonial attorney I have met people
of all types, from the confident well informed client who arrives in my Poughkeepsie office having researched all aspects
of the law, has a alphabetized three ring binder
of all the parties financials and a thought
out plan as to a resolution to the marital issues that arise in
divorce actions to the client who has been abused, kept in the dark as to finances and afraid and uncertain about commencing a
divorce action
out of fear
of their abuser.
With this sort
of agreement as the North Star toward which everyone looks
throughout the process, the private interactions between the client and the attorney are more about looking for creative (sometimes
out of the box) solutions to parenting, financial, and logistical issues that need to be addressed in the
divorce, rather than the generation
of one - sided proposals that do not take the interests
of the other spouse into account.
When and if you go for a
divorce from your sweety, will you use your sweety's lawyer to look
out for «your» financial interests
throughout the negotiation process regarding the disposition
of your communal assets?