The following hints will provide a better understanding of our firm and help you maximize your relationship with us.
1. We have families too. The attorneys and staff have children of our own. We volunteer at our kids’ schools, take our kids to the doctors, pick them up from school and, occasionally, run home for family emergencies. We are involved parents and we believe that makes us better family lawyers. It also means that, on rare occasions, our own family schedules will take precedence over yours. By planning ahead, we try our best to avoid or minimize any disruptions. We spend our work lives trying to be respectful of your families and, when a conflict occurs in our schedule, we request that you respect our family activities as well.
2. We want to educate you. It’s your divorce, which means you have to live with the final settlement. Therefore, we will work with you to help you understand your finances by preparing a post-divorce budget and meeting with a financial professional to prepare for your life post-divorce. In this economy, agreeing to keep a house you can’t afford could result in bankruptcy, so we want you to know that you can afford to live under the terms of the final settlement.
3. Schedule telephone appointments. If we are unavailable to take your call, please schedule a specific date and time for us to call you back. This avoids having to engage in phone tag and allows us to block off time to talk to you without distractions.
4. Prepare for your telephone calls. Before calling, think about all of the issues you would like to discuss and write them down. One 20 minute call is more productive than 4 five minute calls.
5. Weekend emails. We understand that weekends are perfect to find the time to review your case and to draft an email with comments and questions. However, even though we all (for better or worse) carry smartphone, we may be at our kids’ soccer game or at a birthday party and not have the time or access to your file, to provide a suitable response. If it’s an emergency, we will do our best to contact you as soon as possible. Otherwise, we will respond when we have a block of time devoted to productive work. Depending on the nature of the problem and our family schedules, the response may come as late as Sunday night or Monday morning.
Call us today at (248) 584-0400 or click on the Contact Us tab on the left for more information.
Pitler Family Law & Mediation, P.C. is the only Michigan family law firm devoted exclusively to Amicable Divorces. Our experienced Michigan divorce lawyers are trained in Collaborative Divorce and Mediation.
