Family Law FAQ - Marriage counselling with my wife is failing. Can you help?
Date: February 22, 2011
Q. I have been attending counselling for over 20 months with my wife and it seems to be leading no where as I use my best endeavours to address our problems however she remains distant and aloof and on a number of occasions has not turned up at all. Can you help me?
A. Yes. Where counselling proves ineffective the only real option for you is to obtain legal advice. Obviously you are at liberty to approach the court through your legal adviser to remedy the problem and if this includes divorce or any other matter whether property settlement, spousal maintenance, child custody etc. then you may do so. Unfortunately we usually only see clients who have been undergoing long term counselling with little or no effect as it appears to us that attitude is a core component of resolution and if this has not changed counselling is of little benefit.
