Family lawyer Mali Waugh can still be surprised by divorcing couples. Mostly, though, she sees people who have worn each other down
here are particular moments in family law that are universal among practitioners. Most of these happen during the first meeting, when a client comes in with requests for a “fair” property division or anticipating “justice”, only to have their misapprehensions about our family law system explained and their expectations dashed.
The reasons couple separate are, for the most part, mundane. It is people who have worn each other down through fundamental differences in attitudes to money or parenting or what makes a good life. That the reasons are mundane does not mean they aren’t painful. But rather, when salacious details do rear their heads – affairs, secret second families, hidden second houses – they are a symptom rather than a disease.
A registrar once said to me that every person tells their version of the truth. For the most part, I agree. I think people tend to tell us their “emotional truths” which do not always accord with the facts as they appear in bank statements, medical records, emails. The way a personthat events transpired is their story. This is, I think, also why some leave the system claiming they were robbed or that they lost their house or children.
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