Stop Thinking "It's My Way or the Highway" in Your Custody Case
I want to challenge you to begin to think in a different way. A lot of people including myself tend to think in terms of either/or. Meaning if you have one thing you can't have the other thing. I want to challenge you to start thinking about is there a way that I can maybe have two things at once and try to reconcile those things?
Oftentimes when parties don't agree they think it's either my way or the highway and that there's no room for both parties’ opinions. In a recent case I learned that actually maybe there is room for both. I learned that parties that really work to problem-solve and do it together that maybe both of their core desires can be met and maybe their goals can be accomplished by being open to both points of view. Let me explain a little more. In this particular case I was representing the father of a child and the child had some special needs. He had ADHD and some...
