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Thursday, September 15, 2011

What a Family Lawyer Can Do for You

A family lawyer is someone who is responsible for looking out for the laws that affect you and your family. It’s a clear cut and simple kind of definition. What is often lost in such definitions as these is the subtlety of what they mean.

Family law pertains to the functions of a family on a legal level. That means issues of guardianship, adoption, and in some cases, abuse. It’s not regulatory stuff. You don’t have to have 2.5 kids to be a family, or any of that kind of thing. It’s more about making sure that two people, prior separate legal entities, becoming one and the same.

Naturally, of course, the talk of one becoming two brings up divorce - where two become one again. And family law definitely touches on that as well.

In fact, it’s not an exaggeration to say that most of the cases of family law these days are going to be about divorce. And in these cases, a family lawyer is responsible for helping the ex-spouses to make long-term decisions in a mutually beneficial arrangement.

If you need help, we’ll be glad to give it to you.