Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and Senior Litigation Attorney Daniel Gvertz discuss the nature of child custody disputes.

Mr. Trout and Mr. Gvertz explain the importance of being upfront with clients during initial consultations about how there really aren’t winners when it comes to custody battles, but only degrees of losing. They also discuss how it is important to weigh the potential negative consequences of any decision in your child custody strategy – particularly regarding how that strategy could adversely affect your child – how an aggressive strategy could contribute to parental alienation, the prism in which your judge is going to view your approach to custody, and more.

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Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and Litigation Partner Jill Massey discuss the mediation process and common roadblocks that they see often preventing divorce settlement.

They discuss the purpose of mediation, the importance of setting reasonable expectations before going into mediation, why attorneys need to do their best to prepare their clients for the unknowns they might face in mediation, key information needed before mediation starts, why it is critical to establish best-case and worst-case goals for mediation, and more.

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Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and Litigation Attorney Michael Carano Jr. discuss how to effective communicate when co-parenting with your ex-spouse.

They discuss the importance of communicating effectively when co-parenting, its potential impact on your parenting time, how to communicate when your ex is disagreeable, tools for proper communication when co-parenting, and more.

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Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and Litigation Attorney Lauren Gilbert to discuss how to discover hidden income and assets during the divorce process.

Mr. Trout and Ms. Gilbert discuss the tactic of hiding income and assets during divorce (and why you shouldn’t do it), the discovery process, depositions and appraisals, other mechanisms to utilize to uncover hidden assets and income, and more.

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Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and Litigation Partner Dorothy Walsh Ripka discuss the important facts your divorce lawyer needs to know and how you can prepare to best help them in your case.

During initial consultations, divorce attorneys need to learn about your history and need to understand your goals for your case as that is how success is measured. Mr. Trout and Ms. Ripka discuss how your relationship with your divorce lawyer is partnership and your participation is vital in order to get them the info needed to reach the goals you have. They explain the information that is critical to provide, how to help your attorney prepare, the importance of financial statements, and more.

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Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and Milwaukee divorce attorney Chelsea Williamson discuss some of the reasons divorce cases tend to be so expensive and offer tips and strategies to help you reduce costs.

Just about everyone walks away from divorce with less than what they had when they started, but Mr. Trout and Ms. Williamson explain why it is important to focus on the factors within your control in order to limit the financial damage. They discuss the importance of being responsive when communicating with your attorney and hitting agreed upon deadlines, ensuring that your emotions do not spill over into your case leading to additional costs, helping your attorney by keeping a journal and staying organized, limiting conversations with your attorney to topics that drive your case forward, and more.

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Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and a Cordell &  Cordell divorce attorney discuss Child Protective Services and the role it can play in your family law case.

They explain what CPS is, why the department tends to be overstaffed and underworked, how you should deal with CPS when it gets involved in your case, the circumstances when you should call CPS and why you should hesitate before getting them involved, the definition of child abuse and child neglect, and more.

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Cordell & Cordell Executive/Managing Partner, CEO Scott Trout and Litigation Partner Will Halaz discuss what a typical trial looks like in family law.

Trial is one of the aspects of divorce that make many guys nervous because they do not know what to expect. Mr. Trout and Mr. Halaz unpack some of the mystery of family law trials and review the various components. They explain the importance of opening statements and why they are often underutilized by attorneys, the role of objections, the flow of evidence as well as the differences between direct examination and cross-examination, what happens in pretrial conferences, how closing statements can be used to tie a case together, and more.

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