[DOWNLOAD] "Through the Eyes of a Child: Impact and Measures to Protect Children in High-Conflict Family Law Litigation (Florida)" by Susan W. Savard * eBook PDF Kindle ePub Free
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- Title: Through the Eyes of a Child: Impact and Measures to Protect Children in High-Conflict Family Law Litigation (Florida)
- Author : Susan W. Savard
- Release Date : January 01, 2010
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 73 KB
Description
A lawyer confidently strides into the courthouse. To the client, it is like being wheeled into the operating room for the removal of cancer. Fear, gut-wrenching uncertainty and ignorance control the client's emotions, as he or she realizes that his or her future or that of a child, is being controlled by two lawyers and a stranger wearing a black robe instead of a surgical mask, all of whom are engaged in procedures that are completely foreign. Added to the foregoing is the embarrassment or humiliation of public airing of deeply personal matters. If such a system reduces otherwise strong, self-directed adults to depressed and possibly poorly functioning individuals, what does it do to a child who is the subject of such proceeding? Even adult children of the parties are grievously traumatized by their parents' acrimonious dissolutions. What chance do minor children have to escape the fall-out when they are the subject matter? (1) High-conflict family law litigation is extremely detrimental not only to the parents, but also to the children involved as well. The negative impact of this conflict flows to every aspect of the case. This article is intended not only for the family law practitioner, but also for litigants in family law cases in which highly contested issues involving children arise. Each parent's affirmative obligation to encourage and nurture the relationship between the child(ren) and the other parent will be discussed. The harmful psychological effects on children resulting from high conflict or protracted litigation involving children's issues will be explored, and an alternative to litigation, through the newly enacted statutory authority for parent coordination, will be addressed.