...ou should make an inventory, when your spouse is away, and photograph your personal belongings and real estate. But, don’t then leave your notes and photos lying around. And don’t think you can leave them in the glove box, the treasure trove for nosy spouses, second only to your MySpace and FaceBook, for valuable divorce evidence. 3. If you can, come up with realistic estimates of the value of these used things. You may be surprised at how much is...
...ame a client: 1. Next time, just fill out the damn forms! 2. If you have a personal referral to a lawyer with a reputation for honestly, integrity, and competence, (and aggressiveness) do not act like you are at “Joe’s Used Cars”. Treat him, his staff, and procedures respectfully. 3. Answer the questions he/she propounds. 4. Ask lots of polite questions. 5. Do what the lawyer says! Instead of me, you will now find someone you can bend to your will...
...l activity, weights, walking, dance, sport, cut back on portions and carbs, and decide that 70 is now the “standard” retirement age. Finally, time to suck it up, and make universal health care work, but put in preventive and holistic medicine! Demand some personal responsibility. P.S. : Cudos to our Welfare System for the recent announcement prohibiting the spending of welfare benefits on drugs, guns, alcohol and Cheetos! (So Bill Clintonish!”)...
...risis Brochure. “Put-downs, insults, threats, and “mental games”, damaging personal property, injuring or threatening pets, and violence and the threat of violence”. Watching people with these problems interact during a mediation is absolutely fascinating. Their inability to think constructively, avoid recrimination, and resist attempts at domination, is stunning. There are people who can help such folks reduce the conflict, at least so they can r...
...ople will post criticism of lawyers should soon prove to be “no big deal”. Personal attacks on lawyers (SUCH AS ME!) can be quickly expunged. And, lawyers should have learned to have thick skins by now. 4. There is reason for the State Bar to be cautious. Former long time director Tom Tinder was an early adopter. My feeble memory has allowed the State Bar’s first Internet service to be lost to me, but it was innovative and gutsy to make the try. (...
...ogspot.com , on some matters that have been bugging me, and to catch up on personal correspondence. I tend to post to FaceBook when I am on the computer, to the extent that my “Jiminy Cricket”, Ed Poor, cautioned me to back off a bit. I ignore him at my peril. Now Nancy advises this is “my time”; so ok Ed and Nancy, I won’t even proof this! I was determined to become reasonably acquainted with a research tool called Evernote, and to compare it wit...
