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y a. marie velthuizen<br />
PUTTING THE CHILDREN FIRST<br />
Meeting the needs of children<br />
whose parents are<br />
divorcing is legal priority<br />
number one for<br />
Martha C. Hall, partner at Hall Law<br />
Group, PC in Statesboro, GA, a firm<br />
with a concentration in family law.<br />
She knows it’s a tall order, but she<br />
won’t represent litigants at all who<br />
won’t put their children’s welfare at<br />
the forefront of the divorce process.<br />
Hall considers the children to be the<br />
marital estate’s most precious and<br />
valuable asset – and she intends to<br />
protect them.<br />
“I look for clients who are going<br />
to put the children first and if I sense<br />
they are not on that path, or if the<br />
children are being used as pawns in<br />
the litigation process, I simply choose<br />
not to represent those folks,” Hall<br />
said.<br />
She offers a variety of coaching materials<br />
for parents aimed at educating<br />
her clients about what is appropriate<br />
behavior and discussion topics in the<br />
presence of their children. Perhaps it<br />
is a fancy term for bad-mouthing the<br />
other parent – but Hall spends a fair<br />
amount of time teaching clients about<br />
“parental alienation” and the deleterious<br />
long-term effects it can have on<br />
a child’s well-being.<br />
“I’ve learned through years of practice<br />
that some clients do not know<br />
they are doing that,” Hall said. “If<br />
you coach them, offer them literature<br />
and walk them through the different<br />
situations they may face, most of<br />
them realize which word choices and<br />
topics are not appropriate in the presence<br />
of the children.”<br />
This is not to say that Hall doesn’t<br />
fight hard for her clients’ other best<br />
interests – particularly the financial<br />
ones. As far as she is concerned, it’s<br />
not a challenge to separate the children’s<br />
issues from other aspects of<br />
the divorce.<br />
“I treat it more like a business,” she<br />
said. “It is two partners trying to divvy<br />
up the assets in a fair and equitable<br />
way. I separate that from the child<br />
custody issues. It is possible to make<br />
sure your client gets what is due on<br />
the financial side but also to set them<br />
up to become a good co-parent on<br />
the child issues once the attorney and<br />
the judge are no longer a part of their<br />
lives.”<br />
Martha C. Hall & J. Michael Hall<br />
32 East Main Street, Statesboro<br />
www.hlg-pc.com<br />
THE SUIT MAGAZINE - DEC / JAN 2014
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