Balisle & Roberson, S.C. recognizes that deciding to end a marriage, or coming to terms with a spouse’s decision to end a marriage, can be difficult and painful. The attorneys of Balisle & Roberson, S.C., along with a team of paralegals, law clerks, and legal secretaries, strive to make you feel comfortable and knowledgeable about your legal options during this trying time. We practice both divorce litigation and cooperative divorce, an innovative approach to divorce that emphasizes civility in an effort to minimize financial and emotional cost. Traditional divorce practice uses a variety of legal tools to work towards either settlement or trial. Litigation allows a judge to hear evidence and make a decision about how to divide income and property and how to allocate custody and physical placement (visitation) of children. The attorneys of Balisle & Roberson, S.C. have extensive experience in custody and placement disputes, achieving fair awards of child support and maintenance (sometimes called alimony), child removal cases (where one parent wants to move with a minor child to another state), dividing closely-held or family-owned businesses, negotiating equitable divisions of the marital estate, dealing with domestic violence, and international divorces and custody disputes.