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September 13, 2011

No Lawyer? Or Just Any Lawyer?

...WOULD OWE THE OTHER CHILD SUPPORT. 3. Father, with no lawyer, fails to get court approval of the agreement. 4. Mother then sues father for $75,000 unpaid child support, relying on a clear court order that he was to pay it! 5. Father hires a young attorney from a good firm who urges him to cough up $40,000, in compromise or risk the $75,000 judgment. Father almost mortgages his house, just to get it over! 6. Instead, Father retains an experienced l...

September 24, 2015

Suggestions for Operating and Marketing A Small Firm Efficiently and on a Budget

...small firm lawyer Jerry Blair of Clarksburg. I agreed with Mr. Blair. The Court did not. The Court in Miller v. Riffle emasculated our Family Courts, and #51-2A-2a, un-emasculated them. https://hunterlawfirm.net/the-wv-senate-bill-430-now-a-law-that-no-one-heard-of/ I have been polishing a product to help the low income client, and people who need some essential legal services but do not know how to go about finding them, or perhaps do not know t...

August 9, 2010

Alimony or Spousal Support – Will I pay or get it?

...l court gave her seven years of rehabilitative alimony, but the WV Supreme Court overturned the trial court, saying it was unrealistic to expect Ms. Molnar to start her new career when many people are ready to retire. Short marriages result in much shorter alimony awards. The key for the spouse in need is to create a “rehabilitation plan” that will let her be in a position to be self supporting in no more than half the time the marriage existed. T...

June 16, 2015

Family Court Standing Order Project.

...ome with multiple orders. My job now is to cobble together the best provisions of several orders into one or more orders that will include the newly authorized “be nice” language. I intend to send my propose standing order(s) to the Family Court Judges I practice before, and to the President of the WV Family Court Judicial Association. If any of my friends or colleagues have suggested language, ideas, or questions as I embark on this project, I wi...

July 23, 2017

So You Have Your (Child Custody) Agreement: Now What?

...ld’s life, goodwill will be generated, and a record compiled if needed for court. Kindness often generates reciprocal kindness, but when it does not, the pattern can be seen and proven to the court in subsequent proceedings. Assuming the client has read the “winning” articles and absorbed my way of approaching problem solving (search “Digging Down” in my blog), here are my tips for the person who is expecting trouble: Read, understand, commit to m...

June 25, 2018

Tying It All Together: Mediation, Unbundling, Collaboration, and a New Paradigm

...arial “attitudes are not easy to change. With something like 70% of family court litigants coming to court unrepresented, and with our country reeling from “accelerating change”, change will come regardless of these attitudes. The question is can well-intentioned, thoughtful, and intelligent lawyers and judges and legislators help guide these changes in a positive direction? I think we can and intend to keep trying. I recommend we revise the famil...

January 22, 2011

How Can I Get My Children’s Parenting Plan Modified?

...statutes. That means they should be thrown out immediately, but our Family Courts have been too intimidated by recent WV Supreme Court rulings requiring them to excuse away the mistakes of pro se litigants. That’s a bit of an exaggeration, but it can be frustrating to an attorney to make an objection or file a motion that would be sustained or granted, BUT FOR the fact the other party is representing herself or himself. The modification statutes a...

September 18, 2011

The Mystery of Equitable Estoppel

...ceptions to those rules. Perhaps that is why I have been to the WV Supreme Court as often as I have. Once a Supreme Court justice told me that my case had helped him to understand promissory estoppel. Here is the history lesson. In some cultures if you even accidently killed a member of another person’s family, they got to kill one of yours. If you were telling the truth, you would float in a pool of water, and if lying, would sink. As we came out...

October 22, 2010

The Dilemma of the Difficult Client

...up the child after school, and the mother insists on being present. If the Court gave him this time, her refusal to obey the Court and her attorney’s instructions should result in a parting of ways. An example of the other view on this issue is that even if the client has multiple criminal alcohol related charges in one year, and evidence of frequent and heavy alcohol consumption, but denies having a problem, the attorney should stay on the case a...

October 22, 2010

The Dilemma of the Difficult Client

...up the child after school, and the mother insists on being present. If the Court gave him this time, her refusal to obey the Court and her attorney’s instructions should result in a parting of ways. An example of the other view on this issue is that even if the client has multiple criminal alcohol related charges in one year, and evidence of frequent and heavy alcohol consumption, but denies having a problem, the attorney should stay on the case a...