Custody Battle Causing You Stress? Give Your Child A Voice 

-         Get a Law Guardian

The worst kinds of divorces are ones involving children, because it makes everything that much more difficult when you have to explain to your kids why mommy and daddy are separating.  It’s even more difficult to convey the love is still present, and even MORE difficult when there’s a custody battle involved. 

But these things happen, and it’s important, necessary even, to give your child a voice.  That’s where law guardians come in.  Since each parent can be (and often will be) unintentionally biased against the other one, a law guardian is a lawyer for the child ONLY.  He/she has only the child’s best interest in mind and acts as an unbiased liaison for the child.

With young children, the law guardian will speak to the child alone, often bringing him/her into a room with some toys, relaxing them, asking them some easy questions, and then getting to with whom they’d feel more comfortable living.  The law guardian also asks if either parent coached them or told them what to say or what not to say, since the answers the child gives only count if they can be accepted to be true.

The best thing is that law guardians are free, appointed by the court. You pay nothing.  I didn’t know these types of lawyers existed, let alone free of charge.  It must be a good feeling to know that your child, even a young child, can have his/her own voice in where they want to live, rather than being goaded or bribed by parents.  The latter would only serve the parents, and is a selfish but probably common tactic in custody battles.  It is about time children are given a voice.

Does anyone have any experiences using a law guardian during their divorce proceedings?