Expert Witnesses - These players are expensive and you hate that you have to pay for them, but if you are a successful person or your wife is trying to destroy you or your kids using her own experts on top of the inherent bias of the family court system, you will have to fight back.
If you own a business or don’t just get a paycheck every two weeks, you are going to get accused of making more money than you claim or hiding money(you will probably be accused of this anyway). Your wife's lawyers will make it clear your tax returns don’t show your income and they will hire their own expert to say your business has a ton of value and she wants to be bought out for “her share of the business” despite never having lifted a finger to help you build it or maintain it while you were married. The sacrifice you made to build it and get it started before you married her will be devalued, but after you get married and everything falls into place and you start making money, there will be experts on both sides who will need to explain to the court the value of the business. Its very painful to talk to your lawyer and be told that in addition to the fees you will be paying lawyers, you need to come up with money for some fancy accountant or business expert to tell you how much your business is worth.
Another expert you will have to hire will only be necessary when your wife or her team of lawyers want you to get less than equal custody. If she sends your kids to counselors or doctors who want to put your kids on medication to create divisiveness, you will have to hire your own to have them evaluated. This process turns into a big contest of experts who will say your kid should or shouldn't be primarily with one parent, should or should not be on medication or in counseling, when it should have been about how the kids can see both parents equally. As this battle gets amped up, your wife will know to be calm because she has nothing to lose. She is getting atleast equal custody no matter what. You are going to speak up about the injustice and unnecessary cost of it all and judges don’t want to hear it. You are expected to sit and be quiet or even give up. If you speak up you will get ordered to anger management and this expert who evaluates you will then be asked to file a report with the court and testify. Your ex will then start at a minimum filing affidavits with the clerk that she is in fear of you and that you are angry and this may affect your interaction with the kids. She will do this despite you being a loving, supportive husband who never made the slightest threat toward your wife while married. If you are a normal man who is a good father who just happens to get divorced, they need to do something to cause the Judge to go against considering you for equal custody.
While there are cases with significant issues involving child behavior, home environments, and fitness of parents due to a variety of reasons, where experts are helpful and useful, be careful about experts are used and ask your lawyer why they are being hired before just agreeing to ante up money for them.
If you own a business or don’t just get a paycheck every two weeks, you are going to get accused of making more money than you claim or hiding money(you will probably be accused of this anyway). Your wife's lawyers will make it clear your tax returns don’t show your income and they will hire their own expert to say your business has a ton of value and she wants to be bought out for “her share of the business” despite never having lifted a finger to help you build it or maintain it while you were married. The sacrifice you made to build it and get it started before you married her will be devalued, but after you get married and everything falls into place and you start making money, there will be experts on both sides who will need to explain to the court the value of the business. Its very painful to talk to your lawyer and be told that in addition to the fees you will be paying lawyers, you need to come up with money for some fancy accountant or business expert to tell you how much your business is worth.
Another expert you will have to hire will only be necessary when your wife or her team of lawyers want you to get less than equal custody. If she sends your kids to counselors or doctors who want to put your kids on medication to create divisiveness, you will have to hire your own to have them evaluated. This process turns into a big contest of experts who will say your kid should or shouldn't be primarily with one parent, should or should not be on medication or in counseling, when it should have been about how the kids can see both parents equally. As this battle gets amped up, your wife will know to be calm because she has nothing to lose. She is getting atleast equal custody no matter what. You are going to speak up about the injustice and unnecessary cost of it all and judges don’t want to hear it. You are expected to sit and be quiet or even give up. If you speak up you will get ordered to anger management and this expert who evaluates you will then be asked to file a report with the court and testify. Your ex will then start at a minimum filing affidavits with the clerk that she is in fear of you and that you are angry and this may affect your interaction with the kids. She will do this despite you being a loving, supportive husband who never made the slightest threat toward your wife while married. If you are a normal man who is a good father who just happens to get divorced, they need to do something to cause the Judge to go against considering you for equal custody.
While there are cases with significant issues involving child behavior, home environments, and fitness of parents due to a variety of reasons, where experts are helpful and useful, be careful about experts are used and ask your lawyer why they are being hired before just agreeing to ante up money for them.
