Posts Tagged ‘Attorney-Client Relations’
Posted Saturday, April 30th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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Recently, and for only the second time in my career, an opposing party attempted to repudiate a family court agreement that he or she had properly executed. In the first instance the opposing party claimed she was “coerced” into entering the agreement. In this new instance the opposing party claimed she was unaware of how [...]
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Litigation Strategy
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Posted Saturday, April 2nd, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys
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Yesterday two different attorneys asked me about accepting service on behalf of a client for rules to show cause. While I will routinely accept service of pleadings (with my client’s permission, of course) I’ve determined it’s unsafe for an attorney to accept service of a rule to show cause on behalf of a client and [...]
Tags: Acceptance of Service, Attorney-Client Relations, Contempt, Litigation Strategy, Rules to Show Cause
Posted in Attorney-Client Relations, Contempt/Enforcement of Orders, Litigation Strategy, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys | 5 Comments »
Posted Friday, March 25th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
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Life is competitive–survival-of-the-fittest and such–and lawyers are among the more competitive life forms. We don’t like to lose and we especially don’t like to lose big. Yet, no matter how good an attorney is, occasionally we find ourselves handling a situation in which disaster looms with little the attorney can do can prevent it. In [...]
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Barry W. Knobel
Posted in Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public | 4 Comments »
Posted Friday, March 25th, 2011 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public
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I had an opposing attorney call me this morning asking if my client’s plans had changed since yesterday. When we confirmed her plans the previous day I reminded her to let me, and the opposing party, know if her plans changed. I hadn’t heard from her since, so I told opposing counsel that her plans [...]
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Legal Culture
Posted in Attorney-Client Relations, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Law Attorneys, Of Interest to General Public | 9 Comments »
Posted Wednesday, November 17th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Child Custody, Humor?, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to General Public
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Someone sent me this on facebook. In under 3 ½ minutes this animator hits on every way a child custody client can make an attorney miserable. Warning vulgar.
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Child Custody
Posted in Attorney-Client Relations, Child Custody, Humor?, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to Family Court Litigants, Of Interest to General Public | 12 Comments »
Posted Thursday, October 7th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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I tell my divorce clients that I cannot make them happy; I can only get them to a place in which they can pursue happiness. I actually feel somewhat proud to be an American every time I take someone who’s been unhappy in his or her marriage and free them from that burden. After all, [...]
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Divorce, Marriage, Popular Culture
Posted in Attorney-Client Relations, Divorce and Marriage, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public | 3 Comments »
Posted Thursday, October 7th, 2010 by Gregory Forman
Filed under Attorney-Client Relations, Child Custody, Law and Culture, Not South Carolina Specific, Of Interest to General Public
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One of my insights in the second family law article I ever had published was“[a]lways recognize (and remind your client) that a custody case is one of those rare lawsuits when it is legitimate to change the facts.” What I meant by that was in custody cases, a parent can, during the litigation process, alter [...]
Tags: Attorney-Client Relations, Child Custody, Parenting
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