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Feb
26
Lake County, Indiana’s new family law rules shake up the old notions of family law often portrayed on television shows and movies. If the Lake County local rules work, divorce and other family law matters not be so filled with conflict and tension as they may have been in the past.
The new Lake County, Indiana Family Law local rules require “fundamental changes in the local legal culture, including the manner in which attorneys approach family cases,” according the commentary on L.R.45-F.L.00-3 which outlines the general obligations of cooperation of attorneys and parties.
The Circuit and Superior Courts of Lake County recognized that conflict in family cases is destructive and often dangerous. Litigating family cases does not end or resolve the conflict; it heightens the conflict. The cooperative model for handling family cases is implemented in order to minimize such conflict and, instead, foster the healthy and child-sensitive functioning of families.
The Lake County family law local rules seek to set the tone for dissolution, divorce and other family law matters even before cases are brought before the courts. The rules stress that attorneys have a vital rule in reducing conflict and setting the tone of cooperation for Lake County family law cases.
Actions taken in the earliest stages of parents’ separation and other family crises, whether those actions are helpful or destructive, often define much of the future of the family case and the family; and, attorneys’ language and conduct in these earliest days are often crucial to the future course of both the case and the future functioning of the family. Until the case is filed, the courts have no involvement and are powerless to help families at that point; however, at such early stages, attorneys can either set a tone of beneficial cooperation or of destructive conflict for the families they touch.
