Starting a divorce process is a big decision in your family life. To resolve issues related to your family law, separation, divorce, you need to select and hire family and divorce lawyer. It is not easy to find, choose, select and retain a family and divorce lawyer, especially if your family matter involves or is likely to involve a contested family court proceeding. Finding and retaining an family and divorce attorney who is experienced, knowledgeable, professional and efficient and who would charge you a reasonable legal fee is very important. A good experienced, knowledgeable, professional family and divorce attorney will help you to go through the divorce court process smoothly, with much less anxiety and hassle.
Why an Initial Consultation is important:
Getting connected and trusting your family and divorce lawyer is extremely important during your divorce process. It is not just about obtaining legal services from a family and divorce lawyer; it is also about getting a connection with your family and divorce lawyer. You will have to work with your family and divorce lawyer as a team for some time until your family law issues, such as issues related to separation, negotiation and finalization of separation agreement, child custody, sole, joint, shared, split custody, child access or parenting time, child support, basic and special or extraordinary expenses, spousal support, net equalization of family property, division of family properties and household items, exclusive possession of the matrimonial home and household contents, sale of the parties’ jointly owned properties, including the sale of the matrimonial home, contempt of court orders, regular and urgent motions, conferences, trial, appeal and finally, the divorce is finalized either through a separation agreement or final court order.
Also, if you are considering having a pre-nuptial agreement before your marriage or a marriage contract after your marriage, you should have a family and divorce lawyer on your side who has experience in family court practice.
During the consultation, you will have the opportunity to discuss your facts and options with the family and divorce lawyer, find out whether your family and divorce lawyer understands your objectives properly, whether he or she is a good listener and explains family law issues to you properly, whether he or she has the required knowledge and experience inside and outside of family court, whether he or she is transparent in explaining the nature and extent of his or her legal services and the likely legal fees, costs and disbursements, whether you feel connected with your family and divorce lawyer. Your family and divorce lawyer has to be your most trusted advisor, friend and guide during your divorce process from the beginning of the family and divorce proceeding until your divorce process is finalized.
Remember, there is nothing free in the legal world, you pay or be charged one way or the other for the lawyer’s time. An experienced, efficient, top-rated family and divorce lawyer who knows his or her work properly will charge you for his or her time. If you want to hire a court-experienced, efficient and one of the best family and divorce lawyers, you should consider having up to one and one-half hours of the initial consultation and you should be agreeable to pay for the lawyer’s time.
Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices provide an initial consultation for up to one and one-half hours. A consultation with Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices certainly offers great value, you certainly will have the opportunity for discussing the various options you have for your family and divorce matter, you can freely and confidentially ask your questions and express your concerns, and in the end, you as a prospective client will certainly and easily experience value for your money in the initial consultation.
Tips for Choosing the Best Family and Divorce Lawyers
1. To start with, check reviews online about the lawyers and law firms, for example, reviews on Google, reviews on law firm’s website, reviews on various social medias etc. However, you have to apply your judgment while reviewing positive and negative reviews online. If there is a negative review, which is not unusual, check the lawyer’s response to any negative or bad review to be fair to the lawyer.
We are very proud to have great Google reviews from the clients whom they served. Also, Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices are proud to have a lot of repeated clients; many clients used the legal services of us repeatedly multiple times.
2. It is extremely important that your family and divorce lawyer understands your needs and objectives, listens to you properly, allows you to ask questions and express concerns, and most importantly, communicates with your promptly. Your family and divorce lawyer has to be someone who should understand the physical and mental stresses you may be going through related to your separation and divorce proceeding, and how the daily routine in your life suddenly changes because of the family separation and divorce proceeding. Your family and divorce lawyer should understand the importance of issues related to separation, child custody, access and need for child and spousal support in your life. During the period of the consultation, you have the opportunity to understand whether your family and divorce lawyer understands your needs and objectives and emphasizes your current situation.
We have a great reputation among his clients and in the community for being compassionate and empathetic towards the clients’ cause and current circumstances and for helping the clients to their best ability. Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices are very much proud to have hundreds of loyal and satisfied clients who repeatedly used their legal services.
3. Knowledge of family and divorce law is crucial. Knowledge of how to obtain the best remedy or outcome for the clients in a cost-effective way is very important. A legal proceeding involved a lot of legal costs. Therefore, it is not just about obtaining the outcome you are looking for, the outcome should come cost- effectively. A knowledgeable family and divorce lawyer knows very well how to conduct and negotiate out of court settlements, how to prepare various family court documents, including trial and appeal records, how to represent clients strongly, aggressively, efficiently, and effectively in various steps in the family court such as motions, urgent motions, conferences, trial and appeal.
We have a great reputation for being very knowledgeable in family and divorce law and steps involved in the family court and trial court. Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices have earned a great reputation for representing clients very strongly, aggressively, efficiently and effectively both in the out of court settlement and in the family trial and appellate court.
4. Experience especially family court experience is crucial. A family and divorce lawyer with family court experience may understand your needs and objectives properly, advise, guide serve you efficiently, and reasonably meet your needs and objectives. A family and divorce lawyer who has experience in family court can guide you properly about various steps involved in a family court proceeding, such as preparation of Application, Answer, Case Conference, Settlement Conference, Trial Management, temporary motion, urgent motion, trial and appeal, he or she can properly analysis the strength and weakness of your case, he or she will give you a reasonable idea on how the court would think about your matter. An experienced family and divorce lawyer can very efficiently prepare and negotiate various domestic contracts such as separation agreement, pre-nuptial agreement, marriage contract, conduct and negotiate out of court settlement.
We have more than 14 years of family court experience in Ontario, Canada. Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices negotiate and settle hundreds of family law cases very professionally, effectively and efficiently. Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices represented hundreds of family law clients in the Superior Court of Justice for filing family court documents, such as Application, Answer, motion materials or record, trial record, appeal materials or record, and appeared on behalf of clients in family court conferences, motions, trials and appeals.
By hiring us you will be assured to receive very professional, experienced, experienced, efficient, cost-effective legal services for your family and divorce matter.
5. Professionalism is very important. A lawyer with a professional attitude knows the importance of solving the clients’ family law issues as early as possible cost-effectively or less expensively, he or she will do prompt communication with the clients, he or she will update clients about the progress of the matter regularly, and he or she will accommodate meetings with clients according to the clients’ convenience (even after work or weekends) and needs.
We have a great reputation for being very professional, communicating with the clients very promptly and regularly updating clients on the progress of the issues related to the clients’ family and divorce matters.
6. Family law cases often involve issues related to real estate transactions (such as selling the matrimonial home or any other solely or jointly owned properties), Canadian immigration (if one of the parties are newly immigrant or not yet has gotten a Canadian Passport) and even sometimes civil litigation matter. Also, knowledge on estate planning and wills are important. It is always very convenient for you as you will easily and conveniently receive a one-stop service for various legal matters involved in your family law matter if your family and divorce lawyer offers services related to real estate transactions, Canadian immigration, civil litigation, estates and wills.
Nizam Hashmi and his Law offices have more than 14 years of experience in residential and commercial real estate transactions, Canadian immigration, civil litigation, estates and wills in addition to family and divorce law. By hiring Nizam Hashmi and his Law Offices you will be assured to receive legal services on various legal matters if your family and divorce matter involves other legal issues such as real estate transactions, Canadian immigration, civil litigation, estates and wills.
7. Transparency in service and legal costs involved in your family and divorce proceeding is extremely important. A good family and divorce lawyer will certainly be very transparent in his or her legal services and legal costs; he or she will certainly verbally and in writing explain to you the nature and extent of the legal services and the likely legal costs and disbursements involved in your family and divorce proceedings.
Communication is the key. A good family and divorce lawyer will make sure you understand the nature of the legal services, the likely costs involved in your family and divorce proceeding and the terms and conditions of the retainer agreement before he or she agrees to work for your family and divorce matter.
We have a great reputation for being very transparent, and professional in their legal services, legal costs and disbursements. In their more than 12 years of legal practice, there have not been any issues related to legal services, legal costs and disbursements with any clients.
8. Lawyer of good standing is extremely important. You can search on the Law Society of Upper Canada’s website to find out whether or not the family and divorce lawyer that you want to consult and hire is in good standing.
We have maintained good standing in their professional career by following professional rules and obligations, fulfilling their obligation as an officer of the court while managing clients’ expectations and acting for the best interest of the clients.
