A Tampa divorce attorney is going to be very important if you and your spouse are planning to file for divorce soon. And when children are involved, it automatically becomes more complicated unless you’re lucky enough where everyone in the family agrees on everything. This is usually rare, though. There may even be reasoning between you and your spouse that you won’t need an attorney to get through the divorce process.
You should never go it alone through a divorce due to the complexities and situations that could potentially arise later. One of the worst situations is deciding visitation rights with your child or children without aid of an attorney. Without legal representation, your child might end up being in the primary care of a parent he or she doesn’t want. This can lead to unfortunate suffering on the child’s part, which should never happen in divorce cases.
Here at Blumenauer | Hackworth Law Firm, we think of your children first when representing you during divorces. With ethical family law our top priority, we want to make sure your children are entirely comfortable being with the parent who has primary custody. The last thing you should be doing is subjecting your child to live with a parent who may be abusive or doesn’t reflect the best aspects of parentage.
The good news here is that if you decided to set up visitation rights without an attorney initially, we can step in now to modify the situation. If you’ve just realized that what you did was a mistake and your child is living with an abusive parent, we can set things up to get modification going to help repair the situation.
Dealing with Modifications
It could be that because you only have visitation rights to your child, you want to gain primary custody due to the above-mentioned unfortunate circumstances. We’ll step in and ask the courts for a modification hearing so you can get things corrected.
While this means your possibly contentious spouse attending, it may have to require some mediation in the process. Regardless, we’ll work hard for you to make sure that family law works fairly. A judge will look at the compelling evidence for or against your other spouse and decide a modification based on undeniable facts.
In this scenario, you could easily be given primary custody after perhaps a year or more of wondering how to fix the issue.
We don’t want to see you end up in such situations, even though we’ll work hard to represent you if it’s necessary. The important thing is that if you and your spouse are planning a divorce and think you can manage it alone, it’s best you not. You never know what the future is going to bring when it comes to the welfare of your kids.
Of course, modifications may be necessary anyway later, no matter if you initially sought divorce legal counsel.
Contact us here at Blumenauer | Hackworth Law Firm so we can help you through all the legal hurdles of divorce. Don’t make the mistake that divorce is a simple process, because you’ll eventually realize how complicated things can get without expert legal advice by your side.