Kick-start your Court Action with the help of Family Lawyers in Newcastle

Nowadays, most of the clients in Newcastle are turning to family lawyers to start court action once a family issue or conflict has risen. Almost all of these clients have no legal experience in Family Court, thus they do not realize what the consequence is in terms of time and money.

Family courts deal with cases almost every day and you could also imagine how much backlog they have. As of June 2017, there are an estimated 20,000 cases still waiting to be heard, which reflect how heavy the caseload is for Family Court. Although the statistics for this are not that accurate, it nonetheless shows what’s happening in family courts daily. We could also not discount the fact that there are plenty of applications happening every day, which makes you think how much time and money it takes to litigate each case.

Litigation of such cases in family courts depends on how strong the case is. Some inexperienced clients forget the value of the quality of their evidence they present to the court and the mere presence of them being in court is not evidence by itself. It is upon themselves to present facts to establish their cases, thus they should present objective evidence in the form of documents such as independent reports, which family lawyers in Newcastle can help you with.

At this point, it is important that clients seek family legal services to provide meaningful assistance in acquiring such evidence and examine them objectively. It would be far more cost-effective for clients to pay for this service at this infancy stage than to go to court and discover that their case has insufficient evidence due to lack of preparation and objective examination.

Clients in some cases say that they will do anything to go to family court to secure their rights on a principle they are fighting for no matter what the cost is. They forget the risks involved in situations, like family court litigation cost, delay in court procedures and that they may end up paying for the cost of the other party if the verdict of the case is against them.

In other situations, after everything has been done to settle matters with your former partner and nothing good came out of it, then going to the family court seems the most viable and logical solution to the problem. But then, there are other options to consider, should there be a failure of resolving their dispute before going to family court.

For matters relating to money, both parties can use the following:

• Negotiation
• Arbitration
• Mediation/Intervention (can be administered by family lawyers)

For parenting matters:

• Private guidance or counselling with legal services specialising in family law or with an independent family law practitioner
• Mediation/Intervention (can be administered by family lawyers)

To learn more about starting your court action or if you would like some assistance with it, contact My Legal Crunch at 1800 572 122 or through email at info@mylegalcrunch.com.