Archive: July 2012

Lawyers (maybe everyone…) likes to tell stories about the olden days.

The popular myth is that lawyer’s drag out cases to increase their fees. While I’m sure that this does happen on occasion, the myth is far over blown.

Smart Money’s divorce article (finally) has one correct.

We do say this to clients on occasion, but only in specific cases where there is more debts than assets – which, unfortunately, is all too common today.

Over the course of practicing family law for over 25 years (I started quite young, if you must know), the practice has been subject to various significant trends and changes. This is not your father’s practice.   Some of these trends have been positive, some neutral and some quite negative.  Let’s examine some of the main […]