Hiring an Attorney

This is going to be short sweet and to the point. Please please please, when you are dealing with difficulties in your life and you may need to hire an attorney to represent you in mediation and eventually a court of law concerning a family matter, such as a child custody, please hire a family attorney. Just hiring the most expensive attorney in town is not the best idea. 

I recently had a mediation where the mom hired an attorney and the father was pro se. The parties were never married and so it was a paternity mediation. The attorney for the mom was nice, well dressed and polite. She appeared to be educated except at times I wondered what she was thinking. She kept giving her client incorrect advice that didn't even line up with or follow the law. Now, I cannot jump in and say she is wrong, but I have to explain and show in a round about way that well, she is wrong. The case did not settle as this female attorney kept putting ideas in her client's head about what the mom could get in a court of law and what she was entitled to, yet these ideas were incorrect and not in accordance with the law. 

Unfortunately, it was not until the end where the female attorney gave me her card where I look on her card and see about 6 fields of law that she claims she practices in and to my surprise, nowhere on the card did it say family law. She wasn't even a family attorney. No wonder she couldn't properly advise her client. She didn't know what she was talking about. 

In the end, it is a lot like a doctor. If you need surgery on your brain, would you go to your family doctor for brain surgery? If you need plastic surgery, would you go to the best podiatrist in town? I hope not. When dealing with a family matter and if you need an attorney, then hire a family attorney and better yet, Google: Family Law Statute and then the name of your state and download the state laws for your state so that with or without an attorney, you can be educated on what the law says. Knowledge is power and with a little knowledge for yourself, you will be able to save a lot of time, money, frustration and headache in the end. 

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