You can save time, money, and stress when you get legal information and advice early. By getting legal help with parenting decisions when you are separating, you can:

• Focus on your children’s needs, and make decisions in their best interests.
• Help your children keep a good relationship with both parents, even if it’s hard at first.
• Plan ahead and avoid conflict.
• Get information about free and low-cost services that could help your family.
• Keep decisions about your children’s future in the family, instead of handing decisions to a judge who does
• not know you or your children.
• Spend your money on your family instead of on a court case.
• Protect yourself and your children immediately when you’re at risk of abuse.
• Protect yourself financially.
• Get support for yourself. Separating is difficult.
• Find lasting solutions that work best for your family.

How to help your children adjust to separation

• Let them love the other parent.
• Keep them away from conflict.
• Consider their wishes and interests in decisions that impact them.
• Inform yourself about your rights and about the effects of separation on your
  family.
• Settle things without delay so they have stability in their lives.
  Get help when you need it.
• Protect them and yourself from domestic violence.
• Spend wisely so you have money for their future.

The above article is a reposting from the Canadian Bar Association, and its Reaching Equal Justice Initiative. It was first printed at:

http://www.cba.org/cba/equaljustice/pdf/Breaking-up-parenting.pdf

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