Exactly, that is why you have to start being proactive.
The courts don't give a rats ass about MC or anything else. What they want is a hardcore agreement put in place, on the oral record and ready to be signed. Get that to happen before another attny can add BS in the mix.
I wish you could talk to my attny. He is the nicest man in the world, not scary, an absolute whiz and quite simply a godsend.