The L/R/P law office also started working with a psychologist within the framework of family law. Clients can use consultations with psychologist Judita Malík, who can provide them with professional advice, for example during the divorce process and proceedings concerning minor children. The author of the unique idea, attorney Martina Lysinová, and psychologist Judita Malík talked about the importance of cooperation between a lawyer and a psychologist in individual cases.

Ms. Lysinová, cooperation between a law firm and a psychologist is not common in Slovakia. Where did the impulse to cooperate with the psychologist Malík come from within the L/R/P law firm?

ML: The impulse came from the clients, although in many cases indirectly. L/R/P is a large law firm and we strive to offer our clients the most professional and expert legal services in all segments. This is also why we work closely with, for example, tax and accounting advisors, fund managers, energy experts, developers and many other experts. We focus on comprehensive advice, and when a client approaches us, they will not only receive an isolated and often distant from reality attorney's view of the given problem. We are convinced that such services need to be offered in the field of family law as well.

Based on many years of experience, I must humbly admit that the complicated situation that arises in interpersonal relations in connection with divorce and disputes concerning minor children, in many cases, cannot be resolved by a lawyer alone. A good lawyer knows when and how to use legal means to defend the client. Time plays an important role in proceedings involving minors. A quick and correct reaction to the situation is the alpha and omega of success in a dispute. For example, if the child gets used to a new life situation, it is very difficult to achieve change in the form of entrusting the child to alternate care or expanding contact with one of the parents.

However, the relationships that are dealt with in family law are not static and predetermined. It is not a loan that was borrowed and the borrower did not return it, nor a house that the construction company did not build as agreed. Interpersonal relationships are complicated, evolving and changing. Since the behavior of the participants in the family conflict is often motivated by selfish intentions during ongoing court cases, the situation is all the more complicated. I know from experience that the actions and reactions between the participants in the conflict have a fundamental influence not only on the outcome of the dispute, but especially on their further lives. And this is precisely the area in which I often felt the deficit of a professionally qualified person who could answer many of the clients' questions in a qualified manner.

You can read the entire interview in Hospodárske noviny: A lawyer and a psychologist can guide you through the stressful period of divorce together