This can be a nerve-racking experience for mums and dads.
It is never too late to settle any disputes prior to hearings, and decisions made together are always preferable to ones made on your behalf.
Try to keep calm. It’s an unfamiliar environment so nerves are inevitable.
Keep to the point, so only talk about the presenting issues.
Try to keep emotions a bay, not easy but they can overwhelm and cloud your thinking.
Listen to your legal team, they know what they’re doing.
If you get angry, try to negotiate a ‘time out’ so that you can calm down.
Listen fully and if there is something you do not understand, ask.