One of the hardest parts in practicing family law is the expectations of what the law can and cannot do for you. The law can do nothing to stop breakups and heartbreaks, betrayal and broken trust, and unkindness and disrespect, and often it can do nothing to successfully prevent cruelty or harm.
The struggle every day in the practice of family law is making space for the humanness of breaking up…the loss, grief, anger, despair, shock. The reality is that in the moment of breaking up, a person’s whole life will fundamentally transform and change.
While family law cannot make people be better humans, we can remember that the work we do is about humans – the messiness of heartache and breaking up of humans coming together and moving apart.
We must remember this every day in the practice of family law.
