Litigation coaching is structured documentary review and preparation and behavioral regulation coaching that runs in parallel with your attorney in preparation for an upcoming or active custody filing. Our trained coaching team reads your OurFamilyWizard, TalkingParents, email, and text-message record, along with supporting school and medical records, across the relevant time period, distills the pattern into a focused factual statement, and helps you stay regulated through a stressful litigation timeline.
If you are anticipating filing, or facing a custody modification motion, a contempt motion, a move-away dispute, or a contested evaluation, and your co-parent has a documented pattern of high conflict behavior, the strongest defense often lives inside the written record you already have. The challenge is that the record is fragmented across apps, months of text threads, and email chains. It is not in a form a court, or your attorney, can read at a glance.
We organize months or years of contemporaneous written communication into a clean factual record, distill it into a narrative that shows the pattern in your co-parent’s own words, and hand the finished documentary material to you to turn over to your attorney. Your attorney decides what becomes part of the legal filing. Alongside the documentary work, your coach helps you stay regulated through the litigation timeline so you arrive at hearings, depositions, and evaluations with a steady nervous system.
High conflict family-law cases often come down to which parent looks more reasonable to the court, and which one is putting the needs of the kids first while keeping them away from conflict. When the documentary record speaks for itself, the pattern does not require the parent to testify about their co-parent’s behavior. The court reads what the parents actually wrote, in their own words, over a period of time. That is meaningfully more persuasive than either parent’s narrative at a hearing, and it removes the “he-said-she-said” frame the court often has to navigate.
Read the full case study: How one father defended a custody modification built on false claims →
After being summoned to appear in court by my high-conflict co-parent, I engaged Michelle's team to compile OFW, email, and text messages and prepare a factual statement for the courts. This comprehensive document clearly demonstrated the pattern of high-conflict behavior which I was able to use to support my defense.
Michelle has helped me find the power, voice, and confidence to stand up for myself and for my child while recovering from years of legal battles. She takes pages-long emails and just gives me the facts, allowing me to stay away from the drama and focus on making sound decisions.
Michelle was instrumental in helping me navigate a high-conflict divorce where the mother of my young children chose to have very little contact with the kids for almost nine months. I highly recommend you hire Michelle as your coach. I am very confident it will be one of the smartest decisions you will make.
Michelle was recommended to me by my attorney as I'm facing a high-conflict divorce. As we have two beautiful girls, I signed up for the course as I needed to ensure I do my part to minimize unnecessary conflict. The course and your suggestions have been incredibly helpful, especially since I've never navigated a situation like this before.
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