Getting the best legal divorce support is simple: speak with an experienced family law attorney. It may be better to tell you how NOT to get the best advice. And I also recommend you check out the article 5 Things You Should Never Do When Filing for Divorce.
There are two things you should avoid when seeking legal divorce support
1. Applying what happened in the divorces of your friends and family members to your own situation.
One of the most frustrating things for a divorce lawyer to hear from a client is a sentence that begins, “my friend told me…” This sentence can end any number of ways. My friend told me I’ll be able to stay in the house because women always get the house in a divorce. My friend told me the laws just changed and I won’t have to pay my wife alimony. My friend told me that since I started that account before I got married, my husband has no right to anything in it.
Don’t get me wrong, friends and family are a valuable resource in divorce support. They can help you work through your feelings. They can be there to listen when you need to vent your emotions. They can help you decide what personal decisions may be best for you because they know you and your kids better than any divorce lawyer.
But when it comes to advice on whether or not you’re likely to pay alimony or whether or not you’ll stay in the house you shared with your spouse, speak with an experienced divorce lawyer. While it can be much cheaper to get advice from friends and family on how their divorces turned out and how it might relate to your divorce; unless your friend or family member is a divorce lawyer you should not be taking legal advice from them. Getting legal advice from friends or family could leave you with unrealistic expectations about your divorce process. Every case is different and an experienced divorce lawyer can help you examine your particular case and will show you how the law applies to your particular situation.
2. The second thing to avoid when seeking legal divorce support is Google.
Unless you are using Google to search “experienced divorce lawyers in my area”, step away from the computer. Often clients call in a panic because they just searched “alimony law in Florida” and they are afraid they are either going to pay too much, receive too little, or that a recent change or proposed change in the law might negatively affect their case. While it is good to keep yourself educated on your state’s laws, you are likely not interpreting the law the way a court would. There are many ways to interpret the statutes and the laws are often changing. If the law was easy to understand and always meant the same thing for every case, no one would need a lawyer.
So to get the best legal divorce support you simply need to find an experienced divorce lawyer and set up a consultation. Talk with that lawyer about the experiences of your friends and family so they can explain how your case is different. Talk with that lawyer about what you may have read online so they can calm any fears or adjust your expectations based on their experience with how judges and courts in your area have interpreted those laws.
If you found this article helpful, you’ll love the advice you’ll find in Divorce with Joy – A Divorce Attorney’s Guide to Happy Ever After.
Divorce with Joy provides information about divorce and legal issues designed to help users cope with their own legal needs. This legal information is not the same as personal legal advice – the application of law to an individual’s specific circumstances. If you want professional assurance regarding your personal situation, please consult a lawyer. If you are a lawyer, please review the authorities personally to determine their application to your case.
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