Coffee Shop Advice
Joan and Jack, two venerable divorce lawyers, bumped into each other while having coffee in the café close to the courthouse. They greeted each other effusively and sat down at a table together putting their legal files on empty chairs.
“I’ve got this tough case,” said Jack. “My client is the mother and she wants the father to have no visitation at all. The father will settle for nothing other than 50 percent of the time with the children.”
“So what are you going to do?” asked Joan.
“I’m going to tell the father that he has a career to worry about. And he is going to want to have a social life. There is no better baby sitter than the mother. I’m going to try to talk him into less than 50 percent.”
“I’ve got another idea,” said Joan.
“What is it?”
“Tell the mother to let him have the children 50 percent of the time. Lot’s of fathers idealize about custody of the children. But once they try to juggle a career with the demands of little children, they find it is no easy task. After a couple of weeks, he will be asking the mother to spend more time with the children.”
“Not bad,” said Jack, “For that salutary advice, I’ll buy you a doughnut.”
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