Help! My trial is coming up and I want to hire an attorney now!

Depending on how long you’ve waited – and how soon your trial is –  you won’t have all available options if you wait until the last minute.  There is no specific legal right to assistance of counsel in family law cases (unlike in criminal cases) so, for the most part, if you can’t afford an...

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Divorce and child custody are complicated and, especially in the very early days of your case, you may feel like you’re standing on quicksand.  Things are constantly changing and evolving between you and your soon-to-be ex, so it’s hard to have one conversation with an attorney that covers everything and, even if it did, you...

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Requesting his Venmo history in discovery

Every case is unique and presents its own specific challenges.  In every case, your family law attorney is looking for those little golden nuggets of information that will make all the difference in your case.  The trouble is that, unless you know where to look, we may be just guessing. Oftentimes, of course, our guesses...

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Navigating a family law attorney’s bad reviews

It happens – even to us.  Bad reviews on public platforms – like Google or social media – are something that most businesses have to navigate.  It’s a hard thing, especially when you know how hard you work to give each client the attention they deserve, but even more so when you know that new...

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Same old, same old, am I right?  I know there are arguments here on both sides – moms only want custody because they want the child support and dads only want more parenting time because they want to pay less child support. But, the truth is, it’s really easy to tell who is most motivated...

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Are you even allowed to represent women only?

We definitely get a lot of questions about our decision to represent women only and, because it’s unusual, we get it!  One of the first questions we get – often when a man inadvertently calls our office – is “Isn’t that discrimination?” What they mean isn’t to really ask whether it is discrimination; by definition,...

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Everyone – and I do mean everyone – always wants to ask whether they need an attorney for such-and-such kind of a case.  And, while it’s true that you don’t ALWAYS need to hire an attorney, sometimes it can be hard to tell from the outside looking in, especially if your exposure to the case...

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What does a family law case cost? Part Two

It is always hard to ascertain, especially ahead of time, exactly how much your family law case – whether divorce or child custody – will ultimately cost.  Even though I do this day in and day out, and have for over fourteen years now, it’s hard for even me to help give people the “ballpark”...

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