Child Custody and Visitation

Our kids didn’t ask for any of this. These kids’ worlds are going to be altered in ways that can have a devastating effect on their emotional, mental, and physical health. How you behave during and after your divorce will shape the rest of your children’s lives. This is where your parenting is tested – what kind of parent are you? Do you really think first about your children and second about yourself, or visa versa? Are you more interested in vengeance than your children’s happiness? I hope not. Someday, when your actions are reflected in your children’s ability to be happy, thriving adults, or lack thereof, you will wish you had made different choices.

Child Custody issues are the most emotionally complex and dangerous issues in any divorce. Tread lightly, and find a child custody attorney who will tread lightly with you. That is not to say that there is never an appropriate time to fight. It merely means, choose your battles; never battle merely for the sake of battling. You will not be happy with the outcome. It’s a lot less fulfilling than it sounds, and it is an expensive venture.

Further, you really don’t know if you will prevail in your attempt to punish the other parent for whatever wrongs you believe they have committed against you. Very often, family law judges are not at all impressed with a parent who disparages his or her co-parent in court, or in front of the children and/or acquaintances. It is important to find a reasonable and realistic child custody attorney who knows how to present your case for the best possible outcome, and one who is willing to be brutally honest with you about the possible results of custody litigation.

A free telephone consultation with Annette Hall Neville will enlighten you as to the prospects of your custody case. She will not tell you what you want to hear, but what you need to hear. Annette believes your children deserve that.