As a lawyer at Chemtob Moss Forman & Beyda in New York, Kretchmar has overseen the end of a lot of marriages. He says he found much of Marriage Story – some technicalities aside – to be “stunningly on-point”. The initial approach must be carefully handled, so that the first lawyer’s letter doesn’t land as a shock. “Every divorce lawyer will tell you that they’re treated like a therapist.”There are in fact a minimum of four egos at the negotiating table, as the rogue’s gallery of attorneys in Marriage Story goes to show. “I have found the process time-consuming, wasteful, expensive, traumatic and adversarial, including with my own lawyers,” says Jonathan.

Source: The Guardian January 20, 2020 15:00 UTC