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Questions to ask your lawyer

1. What is your hourly rate?
2. Do I have to keep a balance on account with your firm?
3. What arrangements that can be made for payment of your services?
4. Under what circumstances should I have phone conversations with my spouse?
5. Should I attempt to tape record in-person conversations with my spouse?
6. Should I let my spouse know about routine medical or dental care appointments I make for the kids?
7. Should I provide my spouse with copies of documents I receive from the medical appointments?
8. Should I hire a private investigator?
9. Should I let my child’s school administrator know what is going on?
10. Should I change the locks on the house?
11. Does a custody dispute need to go to trial?
12. What are the guidelines for spousal and child support?
13. How is child custody decided?
14. Should I have someone evaluate my relationship with my child?
15. Should I have a psychological evaluation done on my spouse?
16. Should I have social services perform an inspection on the residence of my spouse?
17. What if my spouse attempts to alienate the kids from me?
18. My kids want to live with me. Will their wishes be considered?
19. What is a custody agreement? Do we need one?
20. What is a property settlement agreement? Do we need one?
21. Should I talk with my kids about where they want to live?
22. How will a visitation schedule be created?
23. Should we decide upon a neutral location for visitation exchange of the children?
24. When can the judge deny visitation rights?

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