Divorce Questions - Divorce Counseling
Professional divorce counseling is available individually or in group sessions. Each has distinct benefits
and limitations. Participation in group sessions commonly includes the following general topics:
- Telling the family
- Is an ex-spouse still family?
- Impact on Children
- Transition & adjustment after break up
- Abuse recovery
- Dealing with alienation, greed and revenge
- Facing mental illness of a spouse
Professional psychologists should be able to assist with any issue or divorce question that may arise during
individual sessions. One of the greatest benefits of individual sessions is that private issues remain private,
beyond discussion friends, family or close communities.
How Divorce Questions are resolved:
- Legal divorce questions pertaining to rules and cases must be rendered by a judge. Attorneys advise
clients of probabilities of various outcomes along a sliding scale of least to more favorable
- Academic divorce questions relating to the children are resolved by the court
based upon the opinion of qualified experts, through deposition, narrative reports and testimony.
- Factual divorce questions relating to marriage are determined by a jury empanelled by the court, unless a
jury is waived. In non-jury trials (bench trials) the court assumes the responsibilities of both judge and
jury.
- Minor divorce questions of convenience are ordinarily determined by agreement of attorneys for legal
issues, and parents for custody issues.
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