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Worried about how divorce will impact your children? Unhappy with your current custody situation? Contact Los Angeles child custody lawyer Jordana N Better to mediate your dispute.
Between the emotional and financial stakes involved, divorce is already complicated and contentious enough. When you add children into the equation, however, it can get downright ugly. And yet, fighting in court over the fate of your minor children is often the worst thing for them and the last thing you want.
Fortunately, there are solutions available that do not require a drawn-out conflict, such as the approach privileged by Los Angeles County child custody lawyer Jordana Better. With a specialization in high-net-worth and complex divorce cases and a distinct approach favoring remote work and rational mediation, she is pioneering a better way to solve child custody disputes through modification and negotiated agreements.
The goal, after all, is to reach an outcome that minimizes harm and maximizes the well-being of your children while also balancing all the other complex considerations of the divorce. This can sometimes be quite difficult in the current era, especially in areas like Los Angeles County.
Organizing life across two households is never easy, especially for a young child who is losing significant sources of stability. But doing so for families in Los Angeles County can be even more complex. Often, one parent will not be able or willing to afford a home in the same neighborhood, assuming either can. Which means figuring out new school arrangements or working around them.
High-powered Los Angeles jobs often require immediate availability and sometimes demand frequent state, national, or even international travel or even a long-term move. This can make nailing down a child custody agreement complicated or lead to frequent requests for flexibility or even modification.
Finally, you cannot underestimate the impact a public fight or divorce can have on children. Especially in the digital information age when many of our children will find things online or be confronted with them by other kids their age at school or on social media. Favoring more discrete solutions, such as a negotiated agreement, can help avoid these dangers and minimize the other costs, risks, and negative impacts of child custody disputes.
Fortunately, child custody disputes do not have to be public or even taken to the courts at all. In fact, for most parents and families, the best approach will be one of communication, compromise, and collaboration. Best of all, this can be done discretely and often remotely, with the help of skilled child custody dispute attorneys like LA County’s own Jordana Better.
Her approach, which focuses on clear, rational communication and goal-oriented mediation and negotiation, offers a number of advantages.
Anytime you have to go to court, you will inevitably have to pay the price in time and money. Working towards an out-of-court settlement, even for something like a modification to a child support agreement, can save extensively on both.
Indeed, all that is required to by-pass the need for a public and difficult court debacle is you and your ex reaching and signing an agreement. That might seem difficult or impossible to imagine now, but by taking a step back and letting an experienced lawyer handle the negotiation, a little compromise can go a long way.
There are always a lot of delicate and important issues at stake in any divorce or child custody negotiation. But they are usually built on the backdrop of heavy emotional and complex financial stakes, which can make it all too easy to lose sight of your children’s best interests or even your own goals.
Worse still, if you have to go to court, you give up control over the outcome almost completely, as there is no guarantee a judge will agree with your priorities for your child, much less the rest of the decisions that need to be made during a divorce.
Negotiation, with or without mediation, ensures you stay in control of the outcomes while helping you take a step back at the same time.
One of the reasons divorces have such a negative impact on children’s mental state and well-being is that they inevitably come with high degrees of stress and conflict. Mediation and negotiation help reduce that by setting up the child custody decision-making as a collaborative and cooperative process rather than a conflictual one.
Even if the outcome reached is the same, the path taken has a big impact. So why would you ever choose the more expensive, drawn-out, and stressful options when there is a better way to resolve your Los Angeles County child custody dispute or modification conflict?
Law Office of Jordana N. Better. | Work with a mediation and negotiation-focused LA County lawyer to resolve your child custody conflict.
Your divorce will impact the rest of your life, but it might very well define your child’s. Make sure you get the process right by taking a better approach to resolving your child custody dispute or modification request with the right lawyer.
Based in Los Angeles County, attorney Jordana N Better can ensure you and your child’s interests are prioritized, often without the mess, stress or expense of courtroom battles. Call (888) 301-6777 now or reach out to her team online to set up a consultation to discuss your situation and how her approach can help.
