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February 14, 2018

The Divorcing Litigant’s Big Argument!

...than the marriage, with mutual respect, fairness, equity, and placing the children first. Had these things been in full force during the marriage, the divorce might not have been necessary. 6. The spouse who says “let’s do this without lawyers” is often the more aggressive spouse, the one who is sure he can turn you to his will, or the one who sees he/she has more to lose if the other side has a lawyer. If “do this without lawyers” is supposed to...

September 13, 2011

No Lawyer? Or Just Any Lawyer?

...o with new husband to another state for example) she may have to leave the children with their father! (In another case, Mother agreed Father could “temporarily” have the children a few extra days a month for one school year while she got her nursing degree, only to learn too late that he was able to get this “de facto” plan approved by the court, costing her $500/mo. in child support. She would have known this if she had a lawyer. These stories m...

April 5, 2011

Dear Honorable (Family Court) Judges

...sal support, and disposition of cars and houses, have direct impact on the children. I would never think of going to mediation without a plan to mediate and solve such issues. They are “children’s issues”. n. I realize family courts are statutory, and I notice family court judges can have an inferiority complex or visible resentment about that fact, but I cannot agree with a judge who would not require counsel to take all issues to mediation and d...

August 25, 2011

How a Lawyer Deals With an Unrepresented Party

...nyway?”. My response to such comments is swift and practiced. If there are children, I make sure that the client knows I place their children’s interests even above their own. I stress to them how important it is to maintain a decent relationship with the opposing party and how expensive it could be if it were otherwise. I make sure they understand that I am the person to “go to war” for them if a war is required. i. Protecting your personal and y...

October 1, 2010

Social Media, the Internet, Texting, and E-Mail

...puter can enrage the other side, cause them to fear you cannot protect the children, and poison the atmosphere at mediation. 7. Several colleagues have suggested to you that I “require” you not use Facebook or other social media. To me, that is akin to telling you not to use your phone or fax machine. And, it is as hopeless as telling my clients not to date. 8. I sincerely believe that dating shortly after a breakup is usually foolish and short-si...

March 1, 2018

Gun Violence in America: A Small Town Lawyer’s Thoughts

...too little. Add to that a food industry that puts processed foods into our children, at school and at home, and the fact our diseases, to a large extent, are self-inflicted. That may not obviously connect to gun violence but obesity, lack of universal health care, and exorbitant costs constitute a huge challenge to America’s social and medical health. Healing Racial Divisions “Fantasyland” helped me to understand the phenomena of police violence,...

October 19, 2017

“To Everything There is a Season”

...g fields, 30 minutes apart. 4. We had a two day visit with those same grandchildren and their parents, where we actually found time for some serious conversation. We are immensely proud of our mature and capable children, who are meeting their own responsibilities with great resolve. 5. We were reminded that we cannot take good health and good fortune for granted; and that our grandchildren will face the challenges that we and their parents faced,...

December 24, 2021

A Curmudgeon Family Lawyer’s View of Parenting

...es. But, often, a parent with little or no education wanted more for their children than they had and pushed them to succeed and exceed what our “class system” had for them. Not everyone is a Fredrick Douglas, but, even then, the “master’s” wife taught him the alphabet before her husband (then her “master”) shut her down and told her there would be hell to pay if “…niggers ever learn to read and write!”. (Douglas then got neighborhood white boys w...

April 3, 2014

Table of Contents

...ay be illegal. Have … 2010/06/26 2010-06-26 18:12:00 Divorce Does Not Ruin Children, But Parents’ Behavior Does (Note: a friend gently chided me for the phrase above “Ruin Children”. She did not like the idea of a … 2010/06/26 2010-06-26 18:04:00 The McDonalds Happy Meal Controversy I chuckled at the comments of critics of Happy Meals having toys in them because children aren’t sophisticated enough to … 2010/06/26 2010-06-26 17:58:00 Being a Good...

March 6, 2018

Mr. Hunter’s Revised Letter to Clients

...are the subject of the litigation, no photographs of or comments about the children will be posted, and that the standard you will follow is that you will post nothing that she would not want your mother, your children, your spouse, your lawyer, or your minister to see. Note: this rule should be flexible and guided by simple good taste and common sense. 6. Mr. Hunter has a carefully devised method for helping you organize the facts in your case. Y...