How To Get An Effective Child Custody Settlement in Your Separation or Divorce in Ontario!
Have you been trying to settle your child custody and access issues with your ex-spouse?
Or you do think you should just take this really important issue to trial?
Hi, my name is Thomas O’Malley. I’m an experienced family lawyer in Durham Region and the GTA.
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When you are dealing with your child custody and access issues, now called decision-making responsibility and parenting time, outside the court process or in the court process, you want to really focus on settling these issues.
Generally, you have much better results with an agreement that settles the child custody and access issues. If you are thinking about going to trial, you face some serious preparation for the trial as well as the legal costs for paying your lawyer.
Make sure your family lawyer has prepared a comprehensive settlement document to send to your former spouse to resolve your outstanding child custody and access issues.
You need to put together a detailed parenting plan that covers fair and reasonable parenting times for both you and the other parent.
Don’t try to freeze out the other parent. This will only make sure that the other parent does not accept your proposal and might push the matter to trial.
When you carefully craft a detailed parenting plan, you definitely do what’s in the best interests of your children. You can put in specific details that helps your children have stability and do well living in two households now as result of your separation.
As much as possible, you and the other parent must focus on co-parenting your children effectively.
You have to remember that you and the other parent will always know what’s better for your children than a judge would ever know.
As much as possible try to keep your family law issues, including the child custody and access issues, outside of court.
Your children will thank you for it when they are older. They will see that you and the other parent worked together to do the best for them even though they were no longer married or in a relationship.
When you settle your case during the family court process, you also enjoy this big benefit: you are much less likely to return to court in the future.
In most cases in which parents have settled their issues in court with a written agreement, the parents negotiate any future changes outside the family court process. This keeps everything much more civil and peaceful for everyone.
A key way to settle is to make sure you have reasonable goals in your separation or divorce. You need to get the advice of an experienced family lawyer to advise on the best option for you and your children based on Ontario family law and details of your situation.
Here’s the bottom line: focus on settling your child custody and access issues from the start. It’s the best approach for everyone, especially your children.
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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