Letting good clients subsidize deadbeat clients
June 8, 2010
I am amazed at how many family law attorneys accept a collections rate of 75%, or less, on their billing. Basically they are letting their
May 22, 2010
Very early in my career I handled my first contested custody case which resulted in my client, a young medical student, obtaining custody of his
The attorneys or clients who cry wolf
May 21, 2010
In Aesop’s fable of “The Boy Who Cried Wolf” a shepherd boy entertains himself by repeatedly pretending a wolf is attacking his sheep. Each time
May 16, 2010
In representing parents who are unreasonably resistant to the other parent’s relationship with the child, I often feel like I am performing surgery on suicides,
May 6, 2010
A spouse or parent walks into an attorney’s office with a “relationship” problem: he isn’t getting along with his wife and wants out of the
When your divorce lawyer’s results leave you vaguely unsatisfied
April 15, 2010
Found this on a recent vacation at a Voodoo shop in New Orleans. Over the years I have had more than one divorcing client who would
March 18, 2010
I’ve been a certified mediator for less than a year but continually encounter unrepresented parties who want me to mediate their separation, custody or support
The culture’s misconceptions about condonation
March 3, 2010
Condonation (a legal term meaning “conditional forgiveness”) is a powerful defense to a fault divorce in South Carolina. If proven, condonation revives an alimony claim
