But in New York, again, so you'd have a custody order.

And the courts do prefer for the parties to reach an agreement because the parents getting along or at least trying to get along for the sake of their children is always better in the long run.

But sometimes it's not possible.

And if you can't reach an agreement, then an attorney gets appointed for the child to represent the child's best interest.

And if we still can't settle custody after that...

The parties have to undertake the process of going to a forensic evaluation where a psychiatrist or a psychologist evaluates the whole family, writes a very extensive report, which unfortunately, due to the nature of a forensic examination, they're looking for everyone's flaws.

And so no one comes out looking great, right? one party you hope comes out looking better than the other and you hope that that party is your client, but that is not always the case again because the process of the forensic examination is to look at your strengths and your weaknesses and focus on how that may or may not impact your ability as a parent.

So how does New York deal with financial claims on divorce? So how do they decide who gets the money?