Often, potential clients enter an attorney’s office with high hopes and lofty goals. Many want their “day in court” and do not wish to settle for less than 100% of their original goal. The reality is that the Court is not in business to make you happy. The Family Court is a court of equity. So even though you may not want to give your soon-to-be ex anything, that is not a realistic outcome. Additionally, while you may want the ability to make decisions for your child without the other parent’s input, unless you can prove to the Court that this result would be in the child’s best interests, the Court will not enter such an order.
The attorney that you hire cannot change your facts whether they are good or bad. Your attorney will present your facts in the best possible light to the Court and, if there are unflattering facts, will often work with you to begin to correct them before you go to court. In the end though, your attorney is not a magician. They cannot make previous decisions disappear or undo past mistakes. Your attorney can tell you how to correct these issues so that when you go to court the judge can see that while you may have made some mistakes in the past, you are willing and able to change. If you continue the behaviors against your attorney’s advice, there is a good chance that no matter how aggressive your attorney is in court, you will not get what you wanted. Contact the firm today to discuss the reasonable outcomes in your particular set of facts.