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April 27, 2017

Document Assembly for the Busy Non-Nerdy Lawyer: Pathagoras

...double, or quadruple, the number of WV litigants we can help. Over 70% of family court litigants are unrepresented, and “do it yourself”. Remember the old phrase, “A man who has himself for a lawyer has a fool for a client.”!http://tinyurl.com/cj6plrv We need to make it inconceivable that a party would proceed without a lawyer unless they had no resources even to consult one. And we need to expose the fraud of “Do it yourself.”! There are lawyers...

February 14, 2018

The Divorcing Litigant’s Big Argument!

...r experience and knowledge of “the rules of the (divorce) game”? There are family court rules, rules of evidence, rules of civil procedure, appellate rules, civil cases, and Supreme Court case precedent. You don’t know them, so you need someone who does. 8. Knowledge is power. For a “consultation fee” of $500, I can evaluate your case, gather a history, provide options, discuss fee arrangements, and empower you. We are not too expensive, aggressiv...

March 6, 2011

The Role of Fault in WV Alimony (WV Code 48-8-104)

...for the husband’s fault, an admitted affair. I explained that I found that family courts are not concerned much with fault. She respectfully disagreed with me, referring me to a case she had authored. I left there feeling that in the right case, she and the Court would support a significant award of alimony. As I said, unless a client is prepared to go to the Supreme Court, I find that family courts apply no greater significance to fault than any...

April 29, 2020

A ROADMAP TO BURTON HUNTER’S IDEAS AND “WISDOM”

...t Benefits”: https://tinyurl.com/yd6h5xnt Blog Search for “Modification of Family Court Order”: https://tinyurl.com/ydagxcuc   CIVIL SUITS, PREVENTIVE LAW, DISPUTE RESOLUTION, NEGOTIATION, MEDIATION, AND OTHER Blog Search for “Civil Action”: https://tinyurl.com/y7rw8yb7 Blog Search for “Right of Way”: https://tinyurl.com/yas4o3g8 Blog Search for “Jury Trial” : https://tinyurl.com/ybz825b6 Blog Search for “Estate Dispute”: https://tinyurl.com/ycop2...

January 23, 2015

Digging Down – On Organizing and Preparing Your Case

...ain” of custody, since exhibits often passed through several hands. 55. My family court clients simply do not have tens of thousands of dollars to pay for meticulous presentation of piece after piece of evidence. Therefore, sometimes I simply have the client attest to the authenticity of the timeline, confirm which items have documentary proof, and “forget” to offer all of that detail into evidence. 56. I can do that knowing that I know, and the o...

February 27, 2017

A Summing Up of Eight Years’ of Blogging

...has a search engine. Search terms such as “nuts and bolts”, “mediation”, “family court” “insurance”, “deliberate intent” or “obesity” will bring up myriad articles and my views and knowledge on the subject. Cost has been the deterrent for my becoming the owner of a 1300 page “coffee table” door stop! About 5 years in, three years ago, my assessment was that WV is 5 years behind the rest of the nation, and I realized that rather than “riding the c...

March 7, 2010

Mediation, Collegiality, and Professionalism

...with uncontrollable tempers, simply cannot keep their word. The “origin of family court mediation” that I refer to above was a small budget “pilot project” which began in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and which began with the premise that you can mediate “only children’s issues”, use “non-lawyers” to keep down the costs, keep the participants ignorant of the tremendous ramifications of “technicalities like agreeing or not agreeing to a fe...

May 4, 2010

Mediation Madness

...began with a low budget “pilot project” in the Eastern Panhandle, too few Family Courts understand that mediation works best with a lawyer mediator, and lawyers representing the clients. It is true that this takes money and luck, but in the 20%-40% of cases where it can be done, it should be ordered! The success rate of these mediations is very high. Not so where the parties don’t have lawyers. There are a few “non lawyer mediators” who are the e...

April 13, 2015

I. The Law of Families in WV – Some Very Preliminary Thoughts

..., and signature by the Governor, of former Senate Bill 430. I call it the “Family Court No Unwanted Contact Restraining Order Act”. I refer you to my last post on how that bill became law. “Protect” can mean many things. It can mean that abusive behavior that falls below the “domestic violence standard” can be prevented before it becomes domestic violence. It can mean that a person “on the edge” of physical or emotional collapse will not collapse...

July 7, 2017

MORE ABOUT UNBUNDLING (A $500 Product That is Worth $1000)

...e are people every day who truly need help but don’t get it. An example is family court where something like 70% of litigants “fly blind”. They, at best” get a “one size fits all” abbreviated form of justice, and, at worst, can lose, or pay, valuable alimony payments, real or personal property, retirement benefits, and even primary custody of their children. Self-representation is a high-risk venture, and it is not less so because the circuit cler...