How
We Are Different
What follows
below is a statement of why we feel our philosophy and style
of practice can produce good results for children and fathers.
We believe that our approach to your situation maximizes
the chances of getting the very best possible result.
We
actually believe in Shared Parenting
We have always
believed that children need their fathers in their lives
just as fully, completely and equally as they need their
mothers - no less. We have been fighting for this idea before
phrases such as "co-parenting" and more recently
"shared parenting" became popular. We help any
parent - mother or father - who is being pushed out of their
children's lives by the other. Most often we act for fathers
because the biases in society frequently favor women against
men in family law when it comes to children. However, neither
gender has a monopoly on virtue and we also act for mothers
up against over-controlling and irrational men in those
rare circumstances where the father has custody and is keeping
a loving and capable mother out of the children's lives.
We
will not act for a parent who:
1. wants to use
the kids as a weapon against the other parent
2. wants to
remove the other parent from the lives of their children
3. wants the
kids to live with them just to get child support from
the other parent
There are only
two circumstance under which we will act for a parent
seeking sole custody and principle residence:
1. When the
other parent is not willing to foster and facilitate a
healthy, positive and meaningful relationship for the
children with our client parent, but our client will do
so for the other parent.
2. The other
parent's parenting skills are sufficiently and seriously
deficient, for any number of reasons, clearly demonstrating
that our client parent is an obvious better choice. We
are not talking here about ever day problems that most
parents face. No one is perfect and we each have our own
problems.We recognize that in the society and times we
live all people - mother and fathers - are trying to do
their best under very difficult circumstances. Such adversity
makes a child's character stronger because he or she will
have to grow up and live in the very same society. We
are talking here about serious and easily recognizable
failures on the part of the other parent.
Do you have
a friend or loved one who could benefit from reading this?
The Law Offices of Carey Linde is a divorce law and family
law practice in Vancouver British Columbia with experienced
divorce lawyers and family lawyers concentrating in custody
law, shared parenting, divorce, marital separation, and
other matrimonial and marriage issues and collaborative
divorce and collaborative law.
