Keep reading to learn how a family lawyer can resolve disputes among family members.
While offering joy, financial, and emotional support, families can also present high-stress conflict scenarios, such as arguments concerning divorce, asset division, child custody, estate disputes, and money lending between family members. Unfortunately, these can lead to legal issues and family rifts. An experienced family lawyer could help families overcome these situations while preserving relationships and safeguarding loved ones. Keep reading to learn how a family lawyer can resolve disputes among family members.
What Does a Family Lawyer Do?
Family law attorneys apply their detailed understanding of family law precedents and statutes to give their clients relevant and legally accurate advice, advocate for their interests, explain legal options, strategies, and possible outcomes, and negotiate. Regarding resolving familial disputes, family law attorneys fulfill specific responsibilities to attain this goal.
Mediating Agreements
Mediation, which involves bringing in a third party to help the parties in conflict negotiate a resolution that all sides find acceptable, is an effective, confidential, and voluntary method of resolving family disputes.
In the mediation session, the attorney can act as the mediator and ensure the parties focus on the key issues, assist the spouses in seeing the bigger picture, and make sure the process is legally compliant. Ultimately, they help all parties to navigate this process correctly, improving the chances of achieving a friendly resolution.
Offering Legal Guidance
During times of conflict, family law attorneys can offer legal guidance to inform their clients’ decision-making regarding important issues such as property division, spousal support, and child custody in the context of divorce. The attorney explains legal precedents and principles and highlights possible outcomes should the client take the dispute to court, empowering them to make sound choices during mediation and negotiation.
Providing Emotional Support
Family disputes can be emotionally draining for all involved. An experienced family law attorney understands this, so they offer their clients objectivity and emotional support, helping the process seem less daunting and assisting their clients with making logical decisions despite these challenges.
Representing Clients in Court
If all other dispute resolution methods fail, the family law attorney can initiate legal proceedings and represent their client in court to resolve the family conflict. Litigation is a lengthy process involving discovery, waiting for a trial date, potentially attending several hearings to present all evidence and make arguments, and awaiting the court’s decision.
One reason it can be beneficial to pursue alternative options to litigation is that an attorney can raise any points highlighted in these attempts in court, shortening legal proceedings and helping to prevent confrontation, which can mitigate damage to familial relationships.
The Right Lawyer Can Make All the Difference
Hiring a lawyer should be the first thing you do when encountering any legal matter, not a last resort. Whether you’re thinking about a separation or divorce or have been charged with a crime, been injured in an accident, or your civil rights have been violated, you need to first know your rights. Contact Mike Mastracci today at 614 Edmondson Ave Catonsville, MD 21228 (with satellite offices in Ocean City, Snow Hill, and Salisbury, Maryland), 410-869-3400, and check us out on Facebook.