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I hear all sorts of accusations of domestic abuse as a divorce attorney; more so when I used to work at Greater Boston Legal Services where we helped mostly victims of domestic violence. Getting drunk and beating your wife is actually not so new. But blaming the friendly skies for making you do it is a new one. What surprises me, and it shouldn’t (but maybe since I still am surprised, means that I’m not yet so jaded), is that the wife defends the husband and is suing the airline with him. This is a classic case of battered women’s syndrome but still, it’s sad.
I personally am not an advocate for hasty divorces. “Hollywood” marriages to me are the ones where two people did not really know each other or clearly did not think things through before getting marriage and now, less than 5 years later, are deciding on a divorce. Those divorces should be adjudicated quickly but better yet, those marriages shouldn’t have been granted so easily.
In my practice, when I see that there is a glimmer of hope for reconciliation, I always recommend marriage counseling. It might seem unbelievable that a divorce attorney would recommend marriage counseling but I see it as part of the service to my clients. If they do eventually reconcile, they might get remarried and come to distrust my services or place blame on me for causing a rift in their first marriage. For that and many other socially conscious reasons, I always recommend counseling before a divorce.
There are however many circumstances where I would not recommend marriage counseling. Since I used to work in the Family Unit of Greater Boston Legal Services, a free legal aid firm to mostly victims of domestic violence, I know full well that sometimes you just have to leave and you need to leave fast.
So is it good that divorce rates are falling? Yes. But is it falling for the right reasons? No.
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