Marriage & Divorce

There is probably no area of the law where the consumer has a more important philosophical decision when retaining counsel. Students learn that when parents make the decision to seek a divorce, the fate of an entire family hangs in the balance. The future of the parties’ children and the parents’ ability to effectively co-parent their children will depend on how the dissolution of a family is handled.

Practical areas of interest in the marriage and divorce chapter include:

• How to interview an attorney and how to avoid hiring an attorney who is more interested in billing hours than in handling the matter professionally and diplomatically;
• How the process of divorce itself can impact the relations between family members and the psychological well-being of all parties involved;
• How child custody, property definition, property division and alimony are decided;
• How society and the legal system address certain realities of divorce like non-working spouses; and
• Why are dispute resolution and mediation the reality instead of trials?

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