My values in family law
As a lawyer practicing family law, I try to apply the values I hold dear every day, particularly those related to the well-being of children.
Parental manipulation, sometimes subtle, sometimes brutal, traps children in a conflict of loyalty that silently tears them apart.
Nothing is more upsetting than seeing a child forced to choose, when their only right should be to love freely.
The consequences I have seen after more than 15 years of practice are real: academic failure, loss of bearings, anxiety, invisible wounds that leave lasting scars.
All of this could be avoided… if adults remembered one simple thing: you stop being a couple, but you never stop being a parent.
Being co-parents means protecting the child from turmoil, offering them a space where they can breathe, feel, understand… without imposing a truth that is not their own.
Building the adult of tomorrow means protecting the child of today.
It means letting them love both parents without guilt.
It means allowing them to form a bond with a stepparent.
It means letting them see with their own eyes, think with their own minds, and love with all their hearts.
Protecting a child is not about winning a legal battle.
It is about offering them a future.
That is why I always encourage my clients to distinguish between the spouse, the partner, and the mother, or between the husband, the partner, and the father.
You can be a terrible partner, but a good parent. Children should never have to pay the price for adult conflicts.
I am committed to supporting them in ensuring that their child’s right to have both parents in their life is respected.
And just as much, when maintaining the relationship truly puts the child in danger or when one parent proves to be seriously harmful, I am committed to defending the need to protect the child and adapt the relationship in their best interests.
This is what anyone who comes to my door can expect.
