And you presented this evidence to the court?

I didn't. I had no lawyer couldn't afford one I had already got suckered into paying for child support and daycare.

The mediator/lawyer did his best to convince me to settle stating that if I made a trial out of the ordeal that I would end up with even less custody of my son.

This has become the worst thread ever :(

Family Law
 

In most contentious cases there are two lawyers hearing completely opposite sides of the same story. Believe it or not, both sides usually think they are absolutely right. And the losing side always feels like an injustice was done

If things work right the issue is decided by an impartial judge and or jury rather than a homicide or kidnapping.

And this thread is no worse than it's related predecessors :-)

+1 into infinity. Certainly justice is not done in every case--no system in the world is perfect, but apparently Josh is unaware that he is living in the best one by a country mile! Never assume, for example, that you are truly presumed innocent when a defendant in a criminal action. The good part of our system, however, is that if affords an opportunity to prove one's innocence. And certainly Josh is correct insofar as the fact that when a lot of money is at stake in a civil action, some "lawyers" don't hesitate to throw morals and ethics out the window. These "representatives" of our profession limit themselves only to what they feel they can get away with. I see that all the time as an appellate attorney, especially dealing with six and seven-figure cases, when the well-heeled defendant's counsel writes 30-40 pages of pure BS in his brief, playing it fast and loose with the facts, law, or both. I call those "beat me, beat me" briefs, smile, and go about doing just that, thoroughly exposing and dismantling them in my reply. What usually happens next is the appellate panel of judges cross-examines the s__t out of the offender at oral argument.

Larry A. Smith

"Lawyers are the worst. I was once contacted by the lawyer of a-hole board member who was slandering me with their own slander accusation. You'd think there would have been a conflict of interest considering the lawyer was also my lawyer. Nope, the slime ball just moved forward with the issue and played both sides. Every time I met with the lawyer he just stared at me dumbfounded. I think he was in the other guy's pocket. It was a horrible mess, took months settle." - Archive

No comment on lawyers, but this Archive character is sure a dumbass!


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