In The Shoes Of A Family Law Attorney!
In The Shoes Of A Family Law Attorney!: Being a family law attorney has its pros and cons. What family law attorneys do is deal with cases of individuals who share a domestic connection. Family law consists of a body of statutes and case precedents governing the legal responsibilities between them.
All legal issues that families may face are encompassed within family law including divorce; child support; custody; spousal support; division of assets and liabilities due to separation/divorce; adoption; paternity; termination of parental rights; dependency and child neglect; protection from abuse and others.
Like other service providers, family law attorneys provide continuous assessment and advice to a client on his or her legal rights. Moreover, this helps their clients go through one of the most stressful experiences in their life painlessly. Helping someone when they most need it can become an extremely humbling and rewarding experience for attorneys.
On the flip side of the coin is the difficulty in dealing with these events with the clients. Like Arundhati Roy said in ‘The God of Small Things’, “This was the trouble with families. Like invidious doctors, they knew just where it hurt.” In a self-defeating attempt to inflict pain on the other party by the client, it can be very challenging for the family law attorney to handle the situation.
In the life of a family law attorney every day there is a new mission or a new issue to be resolved, like a missed counsellor meeting to an argument over custody over a holiday to drawing money out of a joint account.
What family law attorneys do during any given day is normally attend phone calls, negotiate small issues, draft correspondence, prepare for the court and pay a visit to court for hearings and motions.
The time spent in any court hearings can range from ten minutes to two hours in length. The occasional trials can, however, last several days. The skills necessary for a family law attorney are that of a litigator and a negotiator. Time management skills also come in handy since the practice of family law is driven by multiple interruptions.
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