- Lawyer’s fees are expensive.
- The Courts are backlogged and costs are funded by taxpayer dollars.
- The judge will probably never hear directly from your children and will make crucial decisions about your children by way of motion, without ever hearing you testify.
- You would like to put a lot of evidence before the court but it will be rejected because it is inadmissible or irrelevant.
- Evidence offered by relatives or friends will not be considered impartial or objective and may not be accepted with the importance or weight that you feel it deserves.
- The judge has the exclusive authority to decide what is in your child’s best interest and therefore can disregard any previous Parenting Plan that you may have developed.
- The unsuccessful party may be required to pay some or all of the successful party’s legal fees in addition to his/her own legal fees.
- There is always the possibility of an appeal which means more delays, costs, uncertainties and emotional turmoil.
- Even after a custody and access order has been made, a fresh court case can be started to change that order if a material change in circumstances has occurred.
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