Fathers’ Rights is written for fathers who are having legal disputes over their children. The book offers a realistic, non confrontational approach to making things work. It does not tell you what you want to hear. Instead, it provides you with the information you need to obtain the best resolution to your problem.
For example, on dealing with visitation disputes the book says:
Sometimes, when parents fight about visitation, they are very upset about something else that they do not believe they can fight about… First try to talk these problems over between yourselves… The traditional approach of winning at all costs and fighting until the other side looses or gives up is often destructive…
I could not agree more. I wish this were the kind of sensible advice all lawyers gave their clients!
Conclusion: Working it out is best.
See Part 1 of my review of Fathers' Rights or read Part 3 of the review…
Note: There is a book by the same title by Jeffrey Leving – I am NOT reviewing Leving’s book.
Note: There is a book by the same title by Jeffrey Leving – I am NOT reviewing Leving’s book.
I have always had a deep suspicion of divorce lawyers who claim to focus on a certain gender. These lawyers claim that the court system is biased against men or women. Although I have never been up against one of these “gender lawyers,” they have always struck me as unnecessarily adversarial.
Also, from my point of view, the law is the law. Either you know the law or you don’t. It is the same process if you are a father fighting for custody of his children than if you are a mother fighting for custody. The same motions need to be filed, the same procedure needs to be followed.
Thus, it was with a smirk that I picked up the book titled Fathers’ Rights by James J. Gross. I intended to flip through it, roll my eyes and pity the poor father who would take such a BS book seriously.
To my surprise the book is very good! I’ll review it over the next few days.
Conclusion: Don’t judge a book by its title.
Read Part 2 of my review of Fathers’ Rights….
