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Hi everyone, I’m Dr. Michael Mantell with another Family Law Matters. Always honored to be joining Bonnie Rabinovitch-Mantel, owner and managing partner of the highly esteemed Primus Family Law Group. Hi, Bonnie.
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Hi, Michael. You know, this is our first one of the new year, so happy new year to everybody. And yes, health above all and peace and harmony.
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Speaking of peace and harmony, Primus Family Law Group prides itself on being active in helping families who are divorcing, separating, creating all kinds of legal documents for each other. You pride yourself on a motto that you call right and reasonable. I think it’s important to start the year off by letting the public who are considering signing up with Primus Family Law know what does right and reasonable mean.
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You know, Michael, practicing family law is very difficult. It’s not that it’s complicated, it’s because we’re dealing with families that are breaking up or families that have contention, disagreements, needing, they can’t resolve them, so they always have to go to court. And while we at Primus Family Law Group are skilled attorneys, we also take a big picture approach.
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You may be entitled to something under the law, something may be legally right, and that is just completely unreasonable for your circumstances. I mean, if somebody’s got $100 a month and they’re ordered to pay $120 in support, while that may be legally right, it’s just unreasonable for the family and their situation. And so at Primus, rather than going out and digging and nitpicking and spending everybody’s retirement money to fight about this, yes, sometimes the fight must happen.
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You’ve got situations, Michael, that you know we have to go and we have to go to court. But there’s also the understanding of the big picture, that how much are we going to spend? What emotional toll? What toll on the children? What toll on your finances? Is it so worth it to be 100% right? And that’s why we say right and reasonable. We advocate for your position, but we also try to manage your expectations.
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And so when someone says, I wanna kill the other person, I wanna take him or her for every penny they have, what do you say? Either you’re willing to see some reason or you might need to find another attorney because we don’t want to do that. That is the most powerful thing that a family law attorney can say. It’s the most powerful thing that a therapist can say.
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If you want someone who’s gonna help you, or a doctor or a business, that is very powerful. That means that you stand for what’s right and reasonable. We try to do this job that is very difficult with compassion and with honesty and integrity.
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And that is not about revenge. That is about getting through the process with something that works for yourself, your children, and gets you out and on. I tell people that when life goes along as you’d like it to go, you have comfort.
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But when life goes along not the way you want it to go, you have the opportunity for growth. So maybe that’s what you’re implanting in your divorce proceedings. Bonnie, if people have a question and they wanna be in touch with you and they wanna know a little bit more about right and reasonable, how can they check that out? They can reach me directly at 619-574-8000.
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And you will be put on my calendar for a free 30 minute phone consultation. Or you can reach out through our website at www.primusfamilylaw.com.