Over the years we have noted some certainties in family law matters. We share them with you here. Reading between the lines will save you tens of thousands of dollars as well as preventing the ride on the emotional roller coaster.

WE ACKNOWLEDGE THE FOLLOWING:

  1. We provide information that assists people in the most difficult event in their lives.
  2. There are enormous consequences for failure to analyze the family law case properly.
  3. People rarely have enough financial ability to pay the bill for a highly contentiously litigated family law matter.
  4. That all of the litigation requests driven by fear, hatred and anger are usually highly expensive and ineffective in completing the case.
  5. The legal system is not designed to handle this problem.
  6. The legal system is the best device that currently exists to handle the problem.
  7. People have absolutely no knowledge of the legal process.
  8. People have absolutely no knowledge of family law law or litigation.
  9. People have absolutely no knowledge of litigation costs.
  10. People do not acknowledge their complete lack of understanding of the system.
  11. People believe they understand the family law process.
  12. Small errors are as costly as large errors in family law success.
  13. The family law litigation process is a zero tolerance process.
  14. The family law discovery process is a zero tolerance process.
  15. The total job of opposing family law counsel is to destroy your legal position.
  16. The total job of the opposing family law counsel is to obscure their legal position.
  17. The total job of the opposing family law counsel is to make you quit or settle the case.
  18. Divorce judges are not a referee, and can only rule on evidence that is appropriately put in front of him.
  19. The family law process is not fair, nor is it designed to be fair.
  20. Many effects of family law litigation are permanent and irreversible.
  21. The client must have iron discipline to succeed in a family law matter.
  22. The client must have 100% emotional control during the family law matter lest their spouse take advantage of an emotional outburst to alter custody and support positions.

     

  23. That family law is extraordinarily chaotic.
  24. Human beings, no matter how effective in their jobs, or other aspects of their lives, generally operate in a state of confusion during a family law matter.
  25. That guidelines, checklists, self-discipline and coaching are an essential contribution to a divorcing person's life.
  26. Individuals going through a family law matter usually do not acknowledge the seriousness of the event, or the long-term effect of a family law matter.
  27. That most divorcing parties have an inability to separate from the person they had been married to.
  28. The confusing matrix of shared events, past sexual intimacy, child birthing, child rearing, goal setting, long-term planning, along with the very same person who is now lying, cheating, having selective memory, and attempting to gain an advantage over you is the heart of the problem in processing family law matters accurately and expediently.
  29. Individuals going through a family law matter, no matter how honest in other areas of their life, generally tend to have selective memory, and recall past events in a manner most favorable to their side of the family law matter litigation.
  30. Most people going through divorce are in denial.
  31. Most people going through divorce are in shock.

     

  32. The opposing spouse, once their life partner, has identifiable psychotic tendencies.
  33. Their spouse, once their life partner, has psychological deficiencies.
  34. Their future has been irreversibly and negatively altered.
  35. Their future time has been irreversibly and negatively altered.
  36. There is no longer time in the day to accomplish all the living tasks necessary for successful life management.
  37. There is almost always an anxiety producing shortage of money.
  38. There is almost always an anxiety producing shortage of time.
  39. The amount of spousal support received is too small to continue to live in the same style that was available before the divorce.
  40. The amount of spousal support paid is too large to continue to live in the same style that was available before the divorce.
  41. The amount of child support paid is too small to adequately rear the child in the same manner they were accustomed to prior to the divorce.
  42. Their spouse, once their life partner, has bad parenting qualities.
  43. That children, in the middle of their most important developmental periods, are severely damaged by the experience of their parents expressing anger, arguing, raising their voice, engaging in substance abuse, promiscuous behavior and sometimes violence, all of which have long term devastating effects on their development as human beings.
  44. The amount of child support paid is too large to allow the person paying support to see the child in equal circumstances to the person who is receiving the support.
  45. The amount of non-deductible child support paid destroys the ability of the paying spouse to put aside for retirement, adequately repair the automobile, gain a living style adequate to compensate for the amount of work necessary and for the time spent earning that money.
  46. That sometimes there has been violent physical abuse.
  47. That sometimes there has been violent mental abuse.
  48. That sometimes there has been child neglect.
  49. Sometimes there has been child sexual abuse.

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