Hello. My name is Irina, and I offer competent help in the following practice areas: Parental relocation with the Child, Child Custody and Visitation Matters, International Travel, Various consents, stipulations of settlement and passport questions, long-distance visitations, international parental abduction and grandparents’ rights, Paternity, Adoption, Prenuptial and Postnuptial Agreements, Contested & Uncontested Divorces, including International Divorces, Modifications to various agreements; Orders of Protection; translation, notary public and apostille service.
Regardless of whether you are just now beginning the journey through legal issues, or you’ve been dealing with these issues for years, I am here to help you get the most time with your children, stop the harassment, and move on with your life.
High conflict divorces often pit one parent against the other in an unending game of trying to win the child’s affection and squash their love for the other parent. Often this is done because the parent feels hurt and angry, often it’s done to win the coveted child support, and it’s almost always done regardless of how it affects the children. I can help you get a fair custody agreement that benefits the child the most with both parents sharing custody equally (unless one parent is unfit), stopping or reversing the effects of parental alienation, creating a parallel parenting plan that stops the harassing phone calls, emails, outrages, and reducing your attorney fees.
I am here with you for your best interests and understand how a seemingly innocuous phrase in a Custody Agreement can wreak havoc on your daily life. I will give you real life ideas that can be put into place today in order to lower the stress you feel, and help you enjoy a great relationship with your children, without dealing with your ex-spouse/partner except when necessary.
Child custody & Visitation
Whenever possible, we will try to create win-win solutions that enable children to enjoy meaningful relationships with both parents. Regardless of your current relations with the other parent, you have a lot of years to work together for your children.
For this reason and for the sake of the children, it is best to work out a creative co-parenting solution that preserves and enhances the child's interaction with each parent.
I encourage the non-custodial parent takes every opportunity to be involved in his or her child's life. Simple measures such as extending weekday visitation from school pick-up to school drop-off, getting to know teachers at the school, visiting sports games, and using webcams or mobile phones to ensure daily contact can work wonders in the relationship between a child and a non-custodial parent.
If you are having trouble getting cooperation from your ex-spouse or your child's school or day care provider, I can help you assert your parental rights.
Often at the time of separation or divorce, one spouse needs the financial and emotional support of his or her family who may live in another city or country. In relocation cases, each relocation request must be considered on its own, with consideration of all the relevant facts and circumstances and with predominant emphasis on what outcome is most likely to serve the best interests of the child. The reasons for seeking or opposing the move, the quality of the relationships between the child and the custodial and non-custodial parents, the impact of the move on the quantity and quality of the child's future contact with the non-custodial parent, the degree to which the custodial parent's and child's life may be enhanced economically, emotionally and educationally by the move, and the feasibility of preserving the relationship between the non-custodial parent and child through suitable visitation arrangements. Even where the move would leave the non-custodial parent without what may be considered "meaningful access," relocation may still be allowed by weighing the effect of the quantitative and qualitative losses that will result against such factors as the custodial parent's reasons for wanting to relocate and the benefits that the child may enjoy or the harm that may ensue if the move is or is not permitted.
While economic or health reasons continue to provide a basis for permitting the relocation, a second marriage of the custodial parent or opportunity to improve her or his economic situation, is now also a valid reason for permitting the relocation if the overall impact on the child would be beneficial. The custodial spouse's remarriage or wish for a "fresh start" can suffice to justify a distant move because of the value to the children that strengthening and stabilizing the new, post-divorce family unit can have.
Reducing the Anxieties and Concerns of Divorce.
Divorce can be one of the most stressful events in a person's life. The outstanding issues arising from legal separation and divorce generally fall into two categories:
- decisions that affect the best interest of your children — such as child custody, co-parenting, visitation and child support.
- decisions that involve your finances — such as property divison, alimony/spousal support.
It is always best to work out a reasonable and individualized agreement on these issues through collaborative divorce, negotiation or mediation, rather than allowing a judge to make these decisions for you.
Although it is my legal and ethical obligation to determine the nature and extent of the parties’ insults, I insist on the parties always ask yourself, is all this necessary, or can this process be streamlined? The parties can work together to negotiate a plan that better fits the current circumstances.
WHAT IS MEDIATION?
Mediation is a private process in which an impartial person, a mediator encourages and facilitates communications between parties to a conflict and strives to promote a settlement. A mediator does not act as a judge, does not render a decision on the issues in dispute. The primary responsibility for the resolution of a dispute rests with the parties.
The most significant value to mediation is that it gives the parties complete control over the outcome of their dispute. The parties can fashion a creative settlement that fits their unique goals, lifestyles, values and needs.
Graduated from Kaliningrad State University in 2002 and holding a diploma of higher legal education with an awarded qualification the "lawyer", over 10 years working in the specialty "jurisprudence", and as a daughter of divorced parents, and a mother passed through the emotional rollercoaster of divorce and the international relocation with the child myself, I understand your family law problems from a personal perspective, and can add that to the list of experiences that I share with many of my clients. I know that life is not always perfect, but that you can get through the issues and have a better future. With all that I have lived through myself, I can offer realistic advice on what my clients can expect during and after divorce, from the court, from their spouse and from their children.
For a free consultation, write to:
Skype: irina.strelets
Tel. +7-962-267-4460 (to call from the USA Russia
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