Every one of us has a friend, co-worker, or family member who has been through a divorce. It has become commonplace for marriages to drift towards Divorce for various reasons in our country.
Misery loves company, and those people you know are probably just as willing to discuss their Divorce as the people I know. There is something therapeutic about letting it all out and sharing your concerns and experiences with someone else. For this, I don't fault those folks going through what will likely prove to be one of the most challenging times in their lives.
However, what I do take is that much of the information you hear is not accurate or reasonable to expect if you are facing a divorce of your own. Sure- extreme circumstances do come up and happen to some people, and for that, we should all have some degree of sympathy. However, much of what we hear about Divorce is not valid.
This blog post from the Law Office of Bryan Fagan, PLLC, is like talking with your parents about something when you were a kid vs. hearing about it on the playground. Sure, we are tempted to think about what our friends say in the garden as more accurate because it may be more graphic or detailed.
However, our friends are prone to embellish or misremember things. Your parents wanted to present you with factual information without any need to exaggerate. The purpose of this blog post is to give you all relevant information about two areas of Divorce that I have encountered numerous misconceptions about in practicing family law.
Mothers always win custody of the children.
This notion is perpetuated not only by people we all know in our daily lives but also by television and movies. The mother is always the picture of good parenting and temperance, while fathers are portrayed as at best lazy and at worst abusers and neglecters of children, and they're soon to be spouses. While there certainly are circumstances where this is true, for the most part, from my experience, fathers are just as likely to be engaged and loving parents as mothers.
In the"old day," mothers were given more chances to win primary custody or conservatorship of their children. Today that is not the case, however. If any of you are reading this blog post are fathers, you should know that no court in Texas will give any sort of advantage, procedural or otherwise, to your wife in a custody battle.
The fact is that there is a presumption that it is in your child's best interest that you and you're soon to be ex-spouse share in the rights and duties to raising them.
As a father, if you want your child to reside with you primarily, you need to ask the court for this to be done and stand up to your wife if a challenge to your ability to do so commences. So often, I have seen fathers back down when the going gets tough in a custody determination.
If you have a good relationship with your child, have been physically present to help raise them, and have no history of abuse or neglect, there is no reason why you can't win primary conservatorship of your child.
If you file for Divorce, then prepare for a courtroom dispute
Nobody ever tells you about the time they went to mediation and settled their Divorce amicably in a few hours on a random weekday morning. The juicy, interesting stories always involve your friend having to"duke it out" with their spouse in a courtroom that was teeming with emotion and anger.
The judge in their case had to step in and decide the outstanding issues, and your friend either got the worst deal in the history of the world or the best one because they were so bright.
Again, this may have happened, but it is unlikely to occur in your Divorce. I realize that Divorce is an emotional, complicated process that we would not wish upon our worst enemy in most situations.
However, most divorce cases in Texas conclude in a mediator's office rather than in a courtroom. After a few weeks or a few months of a divorce case, it is most likely that you and your spouse will be more willing to negotiate a settlement than be willing to risk a lot of money and the well-being of your children on having a judge decide your case.
Judges mean well, but he or they will not have the time or ability to pick out arrangements in the areas of child custody, child support, property, debt division, and everything else in a divorce and then come up with orders that suit you and your spouse.
Only you and your spouse know all the issues in your case, and despite your current hatred towards one another, only you two can carve out an agreement that will work the absolute best for yourfamily'ss circumstances. If you have to go in front of a judge to decide your case, then so be it. However, it is unlikely that this will occur and is unfortunate in most instances if it has to.
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