subject: Women Need Not Be Helpless in a Divorce [print this page] Women Need Not Be Helpless in a Divorce Women Need Not Be Helpless in a Divorce
Divorces are generally messy affairs that have a lot of drama in them. The drama involves which of the spouses gets custody of the children. While tradition dictates that it is the mother who is the logical choice to get custody of the children, there are a lot of problems that a woman faces in raising the children left to her care.
Raising a child is an investment-intensive undertaking. While a woman is well equipped mentally, emotionally and psychologically to raise her children, that ability might be compromised if the woman were the one to still handle the financial aspects of raising the children. Times have changed and it takes more resources to raise a child, especially the monetary resources. If a mother were to take on a job to raise the necessary monetary resources for the child's needs, then it may compromise the delivery of the other resources a child needs, since working would effectively lessen the opportunities for the woman to deliver the necessary care for her children.
It makes sense in a situation like this for a woman to receive some help in the gathering of financial resources for the immediate and future use of the children. And that help logically should be sourced from her spouse. But in these difficult economic times, personal interests often take precedence over the interest of a larger group. Even a prosperous looking area such as California can have pockets of economic difficulties that make the sharing of resources, even among a family, difficult.
Any good family law attorney (Los Angeles) can easily argue for a woman to take custody of her children. The really challenging part about many divorces is in the responsibility of the sharing of resources necessary to raise a child until such time the child is able to take care of himself.
While it could be argued that there is little to share, a good family law attorney (Los Angeles) could argue that as the primary provider of care in the family, it is only proper that there be support in that provision of care.
There is no such thing as fairness in a divorce. But a good family law attorney (Los Angeles) will make sure that responsibilities by all parties involved are equally divided.
