Choosing an Attorney

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Selecting the Right Legal Representation

People going through a divorce have many options when choosing an attorney. Finding the right attorney to guide you through this process has a significant impact on the outcome of your divorce. The decisions you make today and throughout the proceedings are decisions most families will live with for years.  The right advice at the outset can help you make the right decisions for your future.

Here are a few things you should consider when hiring an Attorney:

  • Experience: The right attorney should be focused on divorce and family law. This is a complicated area of law, particularly when children are involved. Look for attorneys with experience, reputation, and references.
  • Reliability and Accomplishment: The right attorney should be reliable, answer your questions and be accessible to you, as well. . The attorney you choose should also be accomplished in the area of family law.
  • Candor: The right attorney gives you a candid assessment about your case and your chances on specific issues. Your attorney should be a pragmatist, offering realistic evaluations to speed resolution.
  • Children: If you have children, the right attorney should make your children a priority and help you minimize the impact of divorce on them.
  • Focus: The right attorney will focus on the important issues, providing intelligently aggressive representation. Avoid attorneys who promise to fight for everything and see divorce as a win-or-lose proposition. That mindset disrupts resolution and hurts all parties involved in the process, especially children.
  • Problem-Solving Skills: The right attorney should identify problems and solve them – whether through counseling, wise advice, mediation, collaborative law, or a possible trial. The right attorney looks at all the options to solve a problem in order to minimize the impact of divorce, particularly on children.

The attorneys at Rubin & Ansel have these skills and will provide the right balance of aggressively intelligent representation, confidence, and comfort, whether you are in the early stages of dissolving your marriage, negotiating child support and legal decision-making agreements, or modifying an existing order.