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Recommendations for divorce lawyer
Hello, need recommendations for a good divorce lawyer.
Currently pregnant with first kid, baby will be here in a couple months. Am currently not working as husband got promoted and posted overseas for a few years, left my job to follow him and unable to work here due to visa difficulties and also no jobs in my field of expertise anywhere within a 2h commute or available remotely.
Things have been rocky for a while and wanted to get an abortion during the first trimester but husband convinced me to keep it and that he will be better. Back then he also promised if I’m still not happy and want to divorce after the kid is born, he will provide a decent alimony making sure I don’t have to worry financially about raising the kid.
Of course, I don’t trust he will keep to his words and I’m looking for a good divorce lawyer to make sure I’m protected.
I was earning an ok salary prior to leaving my last job, but hours were bad and not ideal with a kid. Plan is to go back to sg after recovering from giving birth and go back to work but will probably need to take a pay cut as well due to the career break.
Another concern is splitting our assets, I’ve been helping my parents to invest under my brokerage account and it’s a significant sum, I’m worried this might get factored in as legally it’s under my name. Also husband is fully financing the house (in both our names), initially it was 50/50 but he paid me back for my half of the down payment later on.
Hoping to find a lawyer that is experienced in handling such cases. It’s not a crazy amount of money but want to make sure I don’t get screwed over, any advice is appreciated at well.
What I’m hoping is that I can get sufficient alimony so I can afford luxuries that make life a lot easier with a kid (helper, car, extracurricular activities etc) - many of these I will happily live without if I didn’t have a kid, or easily doable in a dual income household or if i go back to my old job with no wlb and lose out on time with my kid.
For now we both agree that whatever happens we will do our best so our child grows up well, but I don’t think he genuinely believes I will leave.
