How can peopel become divorce attorneys?
Posted on Jan 27, 2012 with Comments 2
airforcewolf asked:
Criminal attorneys, tax attorneys, corporate attorneys, injury attorneys, and all the other types are cool in my book. These are all very interesting fields and if I was to be an attorney I would pick one of these.
Criminal attorneys, tax attorneys, corporate attorneys, injury attorneys, and all the other types are cool in my book. These are all very interesting fields and if I was to be an attorney I would pick one of these.
But how can someone who graduated from law school choose to work as a divorce attorney? It must be so sad dealing with all those cases. True, as a criminal attorney you may have to defend someone who you know deserves to go to jail or as an injury attorney you may have to deal with crybabies who don’t really deserve the millions of dollars they are getting.
But to work as a divorce attorney just seems so wrong. I mean, how could someone be the one that’s helping to break apart a family? It just seems so sad and wrong to me.
Emory Wraggs
Filed Under: Law & Ethics
There are many ways to look at it.
Instead of “breaking up a family” maybe you can see how someone might see it as a chance to get justice for someone, or for a family to start over again in better circumstances for everyone involved.
Or maybe it is jsut a paycheck in a lucrative field – lots of people, probably most people, account for their jobs that way,
I think you’re looking at it from the wrong perspective. When people come to see a divorce attorney, then have already made the decision to split up (in most cases). The divorce attorney fights to keep things even in a situation where emotions are running very high. Sure, there are blood-sucking leaches out there who call themselves divorce attorneys, but I believe them to be the exception, not the rule.
I am in law school now, and I plan to practice family law. My goal is to help people apprach divorce with a sense of fairness, and above all else to help them work out enough of their differences to understand that if children are involved, the children need both of them. I think the children need an advocate when Mom and Dad are splittingup.
When a marriage isn’t working, few people these days are willing to put in the effort that it takes to really fix things. If it’s oging to happen, I feel that an ethical attorney can make this traumatic time better for all involved. Divorce does not have to be adversarial.
Namaste.