Divorce & Family Law - Stacie's Story

STACIE: When I decided that I was getting divorced I didn't know anything about the mediation process, I just knew that I was going to end up in court. I knew that by the very few conversations that I had with my husband, by the very few therapy sessions that we had tried to have with each other, he was not going to play nice.
The first time I sat down with John he just was so focused and involved, and attentive, and he asked me questions, and he soaked up every single detail of my sad sob story, wrote it all down. I kind of remember thinking halfway through this "What if he doesn't want to take my case?" And it freaked me out because I had already decided that I absolutely adored him, wanted him to be my lawyer absolutely, without question.
[GRAPHIC: MY BIGGEST FEARS]
STACIE: When I decided I was leaving I was worried about a lot of different things. I thought that my ex-husband could pick up, and move to a different state, and take my kids with him either by, you know, force, or sneak, or by law. And the idea that they would be living somewhere else is not, it's not imaginable. It just puts so much fear in you that your kids are going to grow up without you.
[GRAPHIC: THE TRUTH]
STACIE: John has a lot of experience with these kind of cases. I had really thought when I left that my ex-husband and his family had so much power that I had to play very, very fair and very by the book, and not demand anything, and not march into a courtroom and say "This is what's going to be" and I just didn't know any better. He had no power. They had no ties. They had nothing that they could use against me in a court of law.
One thing that I learned about John, he plays to win and he won't let you walk in to a courtroom unless he knows with absolute certainty that it's going to work out in the end. I left the courtroom with exactly what I had wanted on the first day that I walked into John's office.
JONATHAN KATZ: The most rewarding part of a case for me is when the mission is accomplished, when I have gotten you custody of your children, or the visitation that you want, or the child support award that you deserve, or a division of property that you are satisfied with.
[GRAPHIC: Eyeglasses]
JONATHAN KATZ: So what's really rewarding is when we get to the end and I have accomplished their goals.

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