15 Mistakes You Don’t Want To Make in Your Separation or Divorce in Ontario!
Suppose you could just have smooth sailing in your separation or divorce!
Sounds pretty good, doesn’t it?
Hi, my name is Thomas O’Malley. I’m an experienced family lawyer in Durham Region and the GTA.
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You certainly can have a better and easier separation and divorce when you avoid these big mistakes in your separation or divorce in Ontario:
1. Moving out of the house before you have a plan!
If you move out the home before you have a plan, you could face some serious problems, especially when you have children.
When you have children, you need to make plans about your parenting time with them before you move out of the home. You don’t want to be at the mercy of the other parent for your parenting time.
If you don’t have a plan in place before you move out, you might have to go to family court quickly to get your parenting time! You are usually much better off to stay out of family court if you can.
2. You don’t set up a consultation with an experienced family lawyer right from the start!
When you know you’re getting separated or divorced, you need to understand your family law rights right from the start!
You can’t afford to make any big mistakes in dealing with the key areas of your separation or divorce: child custody and access, now called decision-making responsibility and parenting time, child support, spousal support and the property issues.
When you have a detailed consultation with an experienced family lawyer, you’ll quickly start to understand how to protect your family law rights and start on the road to getting a fair and reasonable separation agreement or settlement proposal with your former spouse.
3. Fighting over personal property!
You need to know where to spend your time and energy in your separation or divorce.
Fighting over personal property and items is definitely not worth arguing or fighting over.
Take my word for that.
You need to focus on the big picture. In most cases, you should be able to divide the personal property between you and your spouse relatively easily.
A family court judge will certainly not deal with dividing personal property.
4. Refusing to compromise about anything!
If you actually want to settle your family law issues, you will have to make some changes to what you want as your separation or divorce moves along.
You will simply not get everything that you want in your separation or divorce.
You need to carefully figure out what you really want in your separation or divorce and make sure your goals are reasonable based on the application of Ontario family law principles to your case.
Your family lawyer can help you know when it makes sense to compromise.
If you are not willing to compromise at all, you’ll face a long and costly separation, divorce and family court battle.
I discuss more big mistakes to avoid in your separation or divorce in the next video.
If you have any questions about your separation, divorce or family law case and you would like our help, feel free to contact me on my Facebook law office page, that’s O’Malley Family Law, or call me at 905-434-8837 and I’ll point in you in the right direction.
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