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[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

July 23, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

JUL 24, 2024

Vice President Kamala Harris continues her momentum toward the 2024 presidential election since President Joe Biden’s surprise announcement on Sunday that he would not accept the 2024 Democratic presidential nomination. 

Today more than 350 national security leaders endorsed Harris for president, noting that if elected president, “she would enter that office with more significant national security experience than the four Presidents prior to President Biden.” As vice president, she “has met with more than 150 world leaders and traveled to 21 countries,” the authors wrote, and they called out her work across the globe from her work strengthening partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region to her historic trip to Africa and her efforts to expand U.S. relationships with nations in the Caribbean and North Central America. In contrast to Harris, the letter said, “Trump is a threat to America’s national security.” 

Those signing the letter included former Central Intelligence Agency director Michael Hayden, former director of national intelligence James Clapper, national security advisors Susan Rice and Thomas Donilon, former secretaries of defense Chuck Hagel and Leon Panetta, and former secretaries of state Hillary Clinton and John Kerry. 

In a New York Times op-ed today, former secretary of state Clinton praised Biden for his “decision to end his campaign,” which she called “as pure an act of patriotism as I have seen in my lifetime.” She went on to say that Vice President Harris “represents a fresh start for American politics,” offering a vision of an America with its best days ahead of it and, rather than “old grievances,” “new solutions.”

Clinton noted that her own political campaigns had seen her burned in effigy, but said, “It is a trap to believe that progress is impossible” and that Americans cannot overcome sexism and racism. After all, she pointed out, voters elected Black American Barack Obama in 2008, and she herself won the popular vote in 2016. “[A]bortion bans and attacks on democracy are galvanizing women voters like never before,” Clinton wrote, and “[w]ith Ms. Harris at the top of the ticket leading the way, this movement may become an unstoppable wave.”

Today, Harris held her first campaign rally, speaking to supporters in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where the Republicans held their national convention just last week. The energy from the 3000 people packed into the gym where she walked out to Beyoncé’s song “Freedom” was palpable. 

She began by thanking Biden and touting his record, then turned to noting that in her past as a prosecutor, California attorney general, U.S. senator from California, and vice president, she “took on perpetrators of all kinds—predators who abused women, fraudsters who ripped off consumers, cheaters who broke the rules for their own gain. So,” she said, “hear me when I say: I know Donald Trump’s type.” She went on to remind the audience that Trump ran a for-profit college that scammed students, was found liable for committing sexual abuse, and “was just found guilty of fraud on 34 counts.” 

While Trump is relying on “billionaires and big corporations,” she said, “we are running a people-powered campaign” and “will be a people-first presidency.” The Democrats, she said, “believe in a future where every person has the opportunity not just to get by but to get ahead; a future where no child has to grow up in poverty; where every worker has the freedom to join a union; where every person has affordable health care, affordable childcare, and paid family leave. We believe in a future where every senior can retire with dignity.”

“[A]ll of this is to say,” she continued, “Building up the middle class will be a defining goal of my presidency. Because…when our middle class is strong, America is strong.”

In contrast, she said, Trump wants to take the country backward. She warned that he and his Project 2025 will “weaken the middle class,” cutting Social Security and Medicare and giving “tax breaks to billionaires and big corporations,” while “working families foot the bill.” “They intend to end the Affordable Care Act,” she said, “and take us back…to a time when insurance companies had the power to deny people with preexisting conditions…. Remember what that was like? Children with asthma, women who survived breast cancer, grandparents with diabetes. America has tried these failed economic policies before, but we are not going back. We’re not going back.”  

“[O]urs is a fight for the future,” she said “And it is a fight for freedom…. Generations of Americans before us led the fight for freedom.  And now…the baton is in our hands.”   

Meanwhile, MAGA Republicans are still scrambling for a plan of attack against Harris. One of their first angles has been the sexism and racism Clinton predicted, calling her “a DEI hire.” House Republican leaders have told fellow lawmakers to dial back the sexist and racist attacks. 

MAGA Republican representative Andy Ogles (R-TN) has taken a different angle: he introduced an impeachment resolution against Harris, while others are demanding that the House should investigate Harris and demand the Cabinet remove President Biden under the 25th Amendment. The Republican National Committee has decided to make fun of Harris’s laugh.

But concern in the Trump camp showed today when Trump pollster Tony Fabrizio shared with reporters a “confidential memorandum” trying to get ahead of polls he says will show Harris leading Trump. He said he expects to see a “Harris Honeymoon” that will end quickly. 

Trump has continued to post angrily on his social media feed but is otherwise sticking close to home. His lack of visibility highlights that the Republicans are now on the receiving end of the same age and coherence concerns they had used against Biden, and there might be more attention paid to Trump’s lapses now that Biden has stepped aside. CNN’s Kate Sullivan noted today, for example, that “Trump said he’d consider Jamie Dimon for Treasury secretary, but now says he doesn’t know who said that.” 

As Tim Alberta noted Sunday in The Atlantic, the Trump campaign tapped J.D. Vance in an attempt to harden the Republican base, only to find now that he cannot bring to the ticket any of the new supporters they suddenly need. 

According to Harry Enten of CNN, Vance is the first vice presidential pick since 1980 who has entered the race with a negative favorability rating: in his case, –6 points. Since 2000, the usual average is +19 points. Vance won his Senate seat in 2022 by +6 points in an election Republican governor Mike DeWine won by +25 points. Vance “was the worst performing Republican candidate in 2022 up and down the ballot in the state of Ohio,” Enten said. “The J.D. Vance pick makes no sense from a statistical polling perspective.”

Sarah Longwell of The Bulwark, who specializes in focus groups, noted that swing voters groups “simply do not like” Vance. “Both his flip flopping on Trump and his extreme abortion position are what breaks through,” she wrote. 

The 2024 election is not consuming all of the political oxygen, even in this astonishing week. Today, the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) announced that eight large companies must turn over information about the data they collect about consumers, product sales, and how the surveillance the companies used affected consumer prices. 

“Firms that harvest Americans’ personal data can put people’s privacy at risk. Now firms could be exploiting this vast trove of personal information to charge people higher prices,” FTC chair Lina M. Khan said. “Americans deserve to know whether businesses are using detailed consumer data to deploy surveillance pricing, and the FTC’s inquiry will shed light on this shadowy ecosystem of pricing middlemen.”

The eight companies are: Mastercard, Revionics, Bloomreach, JPMorgan Chase, Task Software, PROS, Accenture, and McKinsey & Co.

In the House, Republicans have been unable to pass the appropriations bills necessary to fund the 2025 U.S. budget, laced as they are with culture-wars poison pills the extremists demand. Today House members debated the appropriations bill for the Interior Department and the Environment which, among other things, bans the use of funds “to promote or advance critical race theory” or to require Covid-19 masks or vaccine mandates. 

According to the European climate service Copernicus, last Sunday was the hottest day in recorded history. The MAGA Republicans’ appropriations bill for Interior and the Environment calls for more oil drilling, fewer regulations on pollutants, no new regulations on vehicles, rejecting Biden’s climate change executive orders, and reducing the funding for the Environmental Protection Agency by 20%.

LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

[attorney-anon]

Bug on the Windshield

One of my former bosses often said “sometimes you’re the windshield, and sometimes you’re the bug.”

The practice of law can be great for your self-esteem. A big win can make you feel like you could wrestle God and win. Even a small victory can make you feel like a rockstar and a genius. But the practice of law is also hard, and painful, and soul-crushing. It’s not a profession that easily allows for traditional coping mechanisms; even self-care is just an item on your list that has to be prioritized appropriately.

I went to court today. I was pissed, because I didn’t have time for the hearing due to multiple appellate briefs and a mandamus that all need to be drafted and filed in like a two-week time span, and it wasn’t supposed to be my hearing, but it wasn’t a big hearing. A discovery dispute and a motion to bifurcate a complicated child custody case form a straightforward divorce.

What happened, instead, is a surprise trial-by-ambush on the key issues in the child custody case that robbed my client of EVERYTHING. Over my objections that I had no notice that this was a trial. Over my objections that, because this was supposed to be a short legal-arguments-only hearing, my client wasn’t even THERE. Over my objections (supported by citations to authority) that opposing counsel was LYING about the law.

The court didn’t care. He just wants this case over and done with. He just wants this case off his docket so his stats look better, and this gets him what he wants faster.

When you lose, as an attorney, you have to practice a level of detachment. You can’t cry or scream, you can’t panic even as you’re trying to figure out what to tell your client who is going to lose her child out of nowhere. You have to keep calm and focus on each task at hand as it comes, even if that means explaining why this order needs to be worded differently in order to make things clear for you on appeal, because make no mistake you WILL be appealing. You have to be polite to the opposing counsel who’s only too happy to fuck your client out of a fair trial, because eventually you have to come back to this judge.

Once you leave the courtroom, you can cry in the car but then you have to keep moving. You have to go back to the office and get your next task done, because your other cases don’t stop existing just because one client’s life is in upheaval. You have to keep functioning no matter how many times you are asked to recap the whole shitshow for your boss and coworkers. You cannot tell them to leave you alone and let you process, because the grief you feel isn’t only yours and you owe your client a team that knows what’s going on.

Sometimes, you’re the bug on the windshield. And you don’t get to deal with that, not fully, until the work day is over and your tasks for the day are done.

But once the day is done, then you do have to take a breath and process. You do have to have a drink, read a book, watch your favorite show. Eat something that’s bad for you but that you love. Have the cry you couldn’t have because the drive back from the courthouse was too short. The evening after a hard loss, you cannot work late into the evening. You have to be something other than an attorney, something that fills you without taking just as much, if you want to survive being an attorney.

And then, tomorrow, you have to go back to work and fight the next fight.

[ofhighrises]

(KATHRYN HAHN, CIS WOMAN, SHE/HER) Oh, is that BRESLIN ROYCE? I heard they FORTY EIGHT years old is DRIVEN. But don’t let that pretty face fool you, they are also PROUD. Makes sense seeing how they are a CLEAN civilian who works as THE MAYOR.

NAME: Breslin Royce NICKNAMES: none that see regular use, but Roy or Royce are not uncommon BIRTHDATE: 9 February (48) ZODIAC: Aquarius GENDER + PRONOUNS: cis woman, she/her ORIENTATION: homosexual HEIGHT: 5’5” HOMETOWN: The Bronx, NY AFFILIATION: Civilians OCCUPATION: Mayor POSITIVE: passionate, charming, compassionate NEGATIVE: stubborn, proud, sarcastic ALIGNMENT: lawful good FACECLAIM: Kathryn Hahn

tw: period-typical homophobia, violence, 9/11 mention, cancer, parental death

Be a good man in a storm. It was unintentionally impressed upon her every minute of her most formative years by a father who worked non-stop to keep food on the table, a roof over their heads, and love in every aspect of their little life together. He was a firefighter, which meant that broad stripe self-destructive selflessness came naturally and he leaned into it. Breslin was helpless to do anything but follow in his footsteps. 

There was little a child could do to assert this worldview, not when so much of her life was controlled by the adults in it. She was, however, the first to pull apart fights even among kids older and larger than her, even to her own detriment. At sixteen, she held back tears and fought shaking hands to rip a freshman out from the center of a ring of students delivering a brutal beating over the discovery of his sexuality, violence that was quickly turned on her for the very same reason. Her father cradled her later as she cried out the anger and pain. There was no help for kids like them, and so it would be her. Every time, no matter the personal cost.

It was a through-line that carried her through a major in sociology despite the bone-deep ache that selfishly wanted a music career, one that would open doors to her favorite jazz clubs or even, in her wildest fever dreams, concert orchestras and travelling bands. A gifted singing voice, hands nimble and capable on a keyboard, and a head for notes and melodies were thrown to the wayside in favor of a law career. It would feed the fire that threatened to consume her if she stopped moving. As a lawyer, she could help people. She could build something for herself and her father. 

And she did. Public defender, assistant district attorney, and finally one of Manhattan’s youngest district attorneys, all of it in the desire to be a shield for those who needed one. The unyielding protector, working long hours on little sleep, shouldering threats and lack of support with silent resolve. This was what she was built for. It culminated in her election as mayor by a margin that surprised her. She was real and charming, and that combined with her work history buoyed her in the public eye.

The freight train she’d created of herself ground to a halt with her father’s cancer diagnosis. It stemmed from the work he did at ground zero on 9/11, the doctors told them. Many first responders and civilians in the vicinity suffered from the same or similar ailments, and oftentimes those illnesses took years to develop. He deteriorated quickly. In the end, he begged her to take care of herself, to want things. She needed to let herself want things, and then have them. Be selfish. 

She hasn’t been good at it in the two years since his passing. It’s easier to fall back into a busy schedule and complicated political problems than it is to sit in the feeling of needing something and then letting herself have it, but she’s trying. Too many people need too many things, and she’s never been anything but someone who exists for everyone else.

HEADCANONS

Breslin uses reading glasses. At first she resisted the change, but now she has a wide assortment of frames for every situation. There’s a pair stashed anywhere she might need them–office, purse, kitchen, bedside table, living room–in addition to a very organized dresser drawer dedicated to them.

When she needs to really think about something, Breslin parks herself at her piano. It’s a used baby grand that was her big selfish purchase, and she loves it more than she’d ever admit. She favors riffing on familiar tunes when she’s lost in thought and tends strongly towards jazz, sometimes the tune itself becoming almost unrecognizable in favor of keeping that part of her brain occupied while she mentally picks apart something else.

She has a three-inch tattoo of a chef’s knife on her left forearm near her elbow that she got when she was twenty one. A deep depression pushed her to do something in order to feel literally anything other than sad, and so there it sits. 

Prior to becoming the mayor, Breslin had a reputation for being a demon in New York’s judicial system, an absolute terror for anyone involved in activities that harmed others. She’s deeply protective of the people who need it, and had no problem throwing her weight around to get her way. She brings a lot of that to her job as mayor, and it’s been something of an adjustment to learn she needs a little more patience and a bit more of the ability to compromise to get what she wants.

[msbeth313]

November 6, 2024

I have struggled all day to put my thoughts into words. I would like to say that I am surprised that this country has once again chosen a man over a more qualified woman for president. What I am surprise about is that people not only saw this man for who he is—a misogynist, racist, homophobe, xenophobe, and anti-intellectual, from his first term as president, and thought it was better than a woman. A woman who is arguably the most qualified candidate for president ever, having served the past four years as vice president. Kamala Harris has served as Attorney General of California from 2011-2017, U.S. Senator from California from 2017-2021. And these were all after being a District Attorney in San Fransisco from 2002-2011.

Meanwhile, Donald Trump is the only president ever to have been impeached twice, attempted to incite a coup, and has been found guilty on 34 felonies and has been found liable for rape. His former cabinet members cautioned the public numerous times about his unfitness for office and his fascist ambitions. He has called those in the miliary and gold star families (those who have lost family members while in the field of battle) “Suckers and losers.” He has made “friends” with dictators like Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un. I won’t even talk about how many people died under his incompetence during the Covid pandemic.

I was talking with my mom earlier this evening. I live with my mom, who will be 80 years old next year. I pretty much take care of her since my dad passed away in 2020 and she cannot live alone due to various issues with arthritis and neuropathy in her feet that makes her mobility compromised and she no longer drives. My mom lives on social security, her pension and my dad’s pension. It really is not all that much. I have been attempting to find a job myself that allows me to work from home or at least work close to home to be available in case she needs me. I was supposed to start a job this week, but it turned out being a fake.

I keep applying to jobs and not having any luck and you cannot tell me that under Trump things will be better. I also thought at some point in my life that I would have become a parent by this time in my life. I know that people are having kids nowadays in their 40’s like I am now, but honestly, now, there is just no way ever. Maybe if, somehow in the future if I get a good paying job, have my own home, do not have to take care of my mom, I would adopt, but the idea of bringing my own child into this world, into a world where Trump is president, where he will put RFK Jr. in charge of the health department (if you have no idea who he is or what he’s about, LOOK HIM UP, its terrifying for anyone who cares about children’s health). People who support Trump and other MAGA supporters may believe that they have won. They may feel that they have “gotten their country back.” But I feel that they will truly be surprised when they feel the effect of a second Trump administration. He has told us that he will be a dictator on day one. The only people who will benefit financially will be those who make more than $400,000 a year. It is not financially feasible to deport all of these “illegals” (by the way, NO ONE IS ILLEGAL, everyone is a HUMAN BEING, there is nothing more dehumanizing than calling someone an “Illegal”).

This is how Nazi Germany started. People thought Hitler was doing something “good for the country” at first too.

[justinspoliticalcorner]

Elie Mystal at The Nation:

There has probably never been a president who was more ignorant of the government, the Constitution, and the laws of this country than Donald Trump was in 2017. The man came to power with a child’s understanding of civics and a mob boss’s understanding of power. Instead of using the power of government to effectuate his agenda, he thought he could simply bend the law to his will. Trump was wrong, and the Department of Justice showed him why. Trump fired FBI director James Comey (whose decision to reopen the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s emails happened to be one of the proximate causes of his election in the first place) for his lack of loyalty. That led the DOJ to investigate Trump’s abuse of power. Trump likely assumed that his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, a longtime senator and an early supporter of Trump’s vile candidacy, would put a stop to the inquiry. But to Trump’s surprise, Sessions followed department rules and norms and recused himself from the case, leaving Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein to handle the investigation. Rosenstein eventually appointed former FBI director Bob Mueller as a special counsel, and while Trump was never held accountable for this crime, he learned that the Justice Department could be a threat to his lawless abuse of power.

It’s a lesson he will not have forgotten if he wins or steals a second term. Mandate for Leadership, the Project 2025 blueprint for an eventual authoritarian takeover of the federal government, contains a lot of dangerous proposals for how Trump and his ruling conservatives can remake the executive branch. The authors’ ideas for the Department of Justice reflect not only their lust for unchallenged power, but also a deep fear of the DOJ’s independence—and, more particularly, the way that independence might be used against them if the DOJ is not brought to heel. Put simply: The conservatives hope to use the DOJ to make their darkest desires legal, while at the same time taking away the best legal means to stop them. As a first step, the Project 2025 Mandate recommends hollowing out the FBI. Why the FBI? Think of it this way: If Project 2025 is basically a conservative heist plot, then the chapter on the DOJ is the part where the plotters explain how they plan to take out the security cameras and floodlights so they can proceed under the cover of darkness.

The chapter begins like the Seinfeld holiday of Festivus: with an airing of grievances that the conservatives have against the FBI, including its alleged attempts to “convince social media companies and the media generally that the story about the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop was the result of a Russian misinformation campaign.” There are also entire paragraphs dedicated to railing against the FBI and the DOJ for trying to halt the spread of lies about the 2020 election—and, again, if you understand who these people are, you can see why stopping the government from policing their lies is a key goal. In order to accomplish this, Project 2025 proposes pushing Congress to demote the FBI, and its director, to a lower rung on the DOJ’s organizational chart and make the director report to a political functionary. It also wants Congress to eliminate the 10-year term of the FBI director to make it easier for the president to replace the director at will, like most other political appointees. Again, Trump got burned for firing Comey, and this proposal would make sure any future FBI director is sufficiently loyal.

If the conservatives simply wanted to destroy the FBI, I might agree with them. Even a cursory knowledge of the bureau’s history shows that the FBI is problematic: a dangerous tool of the surveillance state that, more often than not, has been deployed against civil liberties, civil rights, and social progress.

The problem with Project 2025 is that it doesn’t actually want to destroy the FBI; it wants to get rid of its independence—while keeping all of the FBI’s jackbooted thuggery so that it can hurt the “right” people. The Project 2025 Mandate calls for renewing the bureau’s focus on “violent” crime—and that word choice is important, because it leaves out nonviolent crimes like bank fraud, tax evasion, bribery, and document theft—you know, all the things that Trump or his business or donor-class friends are accused of doing. The document further suggests stripping the FBI of its legal workforce—the 300 or so attorneys employed by the bureau—which would turn the FBI into an even blunter weapon than it already is, completely untethered from the Constitution or civil rights. In line with the mission of hurting the “right” people, Mandate’s chapter on the DOJ details big plans for resuming Trump’s campaign against immigrants. Those plans include deploying the power of the Justice Department against Democrats who govern in “sanctuary cities.” Indeed, there’s a whole paragraph devoted to the wild idea of using the DOJ to sue district attorneys who use their discretion in ways that the conservatives don’t like—including, though hardly limited to, refusing to help deport immigrants.

[...] Toward that end, this chapter proposes transforming the Civil Rights Division of the DOJ into a tool to fight for white supremacy instead of against it. It aims to do this by using the division to prosecute institutions and organizations that promote diversity as violating the civil rights and equal protection of whites, and it’s the logical conclusion of the conservative assault on affirmative action and DEI programs. [...]

Using the DOJ to sue companies that hire people of color or women is meant to dissuade companies from hiring people of color or women, because according to conservative whites, anytime a person of color or a woman is hired for anything, it is because of affirmative action or DEI. This section is an attempt to whitewash America through force of law, since “the market” has rejected white supremacy (at least superficially) as a sound business practice.

When you break down what Project 2025 wants to do with the Justice Department, it’s chilling and terrifying, and yet I’m also struck by how petty and mean-spirited the tone of the document is. These people are consumed by their personal grievances (against Black people, against the media, against Hunter Biden and his laptop). There are multiple passages devoted to complaining that the DOJ has prosecuted people who threaten abortion clinics and parents who threaten school boards, as if being vile and hateful toward pregnant people and schoolteachers is their most precious “freedom.” Giving these people the DOJ is like giving a chimpanzee a gun: It’s inherently dangerous even when the chimp wields it like a crooked club.

Next time, Trump will not be handing the DOJ to people like Jeff Sessions and Bill Barr—people who wanted to use the department to further the MAGA agenda but felt bound by the rule of law. Next time, Trump will let someone like Stephen Miller, a ghoul who wants the law to promote bigotry instead of eradicating it, run the Justice Department. He’ll hand it to a devout loyalist and unreconstructed racist who wants to weaken the DOJ so it can’t hurt Trump, while weaponizing it against Trump’s enemies and the vulnerable communities he has decided to harass and terrorize. Project 2025 is telling us exactly how the conservatives plan to take away the rights of women, people of color, and the LGBTQ community. I beg the American people to believe them. This dystopian future isn’t a threat, it’s a certainty, should we give these people power again.

Elie Mystal wrote in The Nation that the DOJ under a 2nd Trump term would be the legal wing of the MAGA movement. The extreme MAGA movement must be crushed at all costs.

See Also:

The Nation: June 2024 Issue

[nesiacha]

The Case of Judicial Nonsense

There have been blatant injustices committed by unscrupulous investigators and a judicial system that knowingly condemns people dishonestly. But this case takes the cake. A family—a father, a mother, and two little girls aged 10 and 6—was found dead in horrific conditions. Only a 2-year-old girl was found alive in her room. There was intense pressure to produce results quickly.

Here’s a glimpse of the "investigation":

The suspect who was about to be indicted broke down during very dubious interrogation conditions. He only gave in after being exhausted and hearing what he believed were the tears of his daughter. In reality, it was a female officer who was trying to imitate the cries of the girl to make the suspect crack.

The 2-year-old survivor "accused" her uncle by saying "bad uncle" and hitting his photo. According to the judge leading the investigation and a child psychiatrist , this testimony was deemed credible. Today, this girl is an adult who says she remembers nothing.

The suspect's wife eventually gave a different version of events a few days later, claiming she had come to the crime scene right after the suspect had killed the family. She allegedly found the surviving girl, cleaned her up, and put her back in bed. Then she said nothing. At a minimum, if this version is true, it involves a failure to report the crime since she only gave this version while in custody. She was released immediately. She will not be charged with anything . Years later, it was discovered that this woman had been the nanny for a judicial intern working for the judge leading the investigation. Years later, the wife casually mentioned wondering if she had killed someone ( later the ex wife as they make a divorce as you might expect).

Very dubious evidence was used to convict the suspect.

Evidence seals were destroyed a few years after the suspect’s conviction.

There are so many other absurd elements of the investigation that could surprise anyone to the point of making them jump out of their chair in disbelief.

This isn’t a bad crime series. It really happened in France in 1994. It was the Leprince case, in which a family was brutally murdered: Christian Leprince, his wife Brigitte Leprince, and their two daughters Sandra and Audrey Leprince. Only one victim, a 2-year-old girl named Solène Leprince, was spared, as I mentioned earlier. Suspicion quickly fell on Dany Leprince, Christian Leprince’s brother, based on very questionable evidence, as results were needed quickly. You already know part of what happened next, although the tragedy would deepen (including the suicide of Dany and Christian Leprince’s mother, Renée Leprince, after 10 years of fighting to clear her son Dany’s name—may she rest in peace).Since this case broke, Dany Leprince has been fighting to prove his innocence. He spent years in prison because of his judicial conviction . He was temporarily released following a request for retrial, which was ultimately rejected despite the support of the Attorney General and the President of the Commission Martine Anzani, who worked on the case for five years. The Court of Cassation rejected the request, and he was sent back to prison. Now free, he continues to fight for his innocence to be recognized, as he has not yet been judicially rehabilitated.

I don’t know what happened on the night of that horrific murder. But I can assure you that I thought I couldn’t be surprised anymore by the incompetence and absurdity in some investigations, yet I was shocked. I didn’t think it was possible to this extent (at least in criminal cases). It is more urgent than ever that a real investigation be conducted. I am neither part of the investigation nor a prosecutor. I am not here to accuse anyone of anything. I just want a real judicial investigation, for the truth to come out, and I hope the new request for retrial will ensure justice is done for the four victims of this murder (may they rest in peace, and may Solène Leprince learn the truth). I want to remind everyone of Dany Leprince’s presumption of innocence, which was not respected. (I don’t know if he is innocent or guilty, but what I do know is that he should not have been declared guilty based on such questionable evidence and an investigation.) I would ask that this presumption of innocence be respected and that justice does its job.I hope those who are leading the investigation of the new request for retrial (in French it is requête pour révision , It differs from the common law system from what I understand ) will do a good work.

If you want to know more, you can go to YouTube and search for more information on this case. But most (if not all) are in French without subtitles. Here is a link about an investigative journalist who, convinced of Dany Leprince’s innocence, wrote a book with him and made two documentaries: Bernard Nicolas Interview

Always be cautious with Wikipedia, but you will at least find the date of the crime and the arrests, along with some true elements like the statement from Martine Anzani, the president of the Commission that closed in 2011. But we all know Wikipedia’s reliability is very poor. Nevertheless, it gives you an idea. Wikipedia link

[zemkzone]

That Rare Arctic Thunderstorm: Ch7 (on AO3)

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For a decade and a half, while he’d been locked up in Iron Heights, Henry had wondered what it would have been like to return to his old neighborhood and his old home with Nora. He’d wondered what it would have been like to watch their son Barry grow up, go to college, start a life of his own. By Barry’s account, those long years had been less than perfect, but Henry was still grateful that his only child hadn’t been raised by a total stranger. Framed posters of musicals and famous scientific quotes covered the walls of his old bedroom at Joe West’s house. Henry brushed his hand over the plaid bedspread, following a ray of sunshine—still bright at seven PM, he'd never tire of seeing it—up to a small crack in the ceiling. The closet was partially open, and when he tilted his head at just the right angle, he could glimpse the small box of old clothes and linens Joe still hadn’t taken to Goodwill. Henry turned his attention to the sturdy oak shelf by the desk, which still housed old physics and chemistry textbooks and a dog-eared first-edition copy of Harrison Wells’s biography. That last book made the small, fond smile fade from his face.

“Barry idolized that man. It’s still hard to believe he wasn’t who we thought he was.”

Henry turned to find a weary Joe West standing in the door, watching him. “No, that man did exist,” he disagreed. “We just never got to meet him. He was the Reverse-Flash’s first victim.” He patted Barry’s bed one last time. “Thanks for letting me come up here again.”

“Any time. I was kidding Barry about turning this room into a home gym. Work keeps me too busy for that.” Among other things, Joe expression all but screamed.

“I’ve got a long way to go before I get my license back, but as a doctor, I shouldn’t have to remind you to take better care of yourself.” Henry joined him by the door.

“Fair point. Now, are you ready to come down?” Joe gestured towards the stairs. “I heard Mike’s car pulling up. Knowing Avigail, she’s sent him over with extra food for us again.”

Some days, Henry still couldn’t believe how many people wanted to support him as he navigated life as a free man. The interview he’d given Iris for CCPN had gone viral. There were the usual conspiracy theorists, but shop clerks who recognized him from his very public acquittal sometimes snuck him discounts or freebies at the stores. “Just a little something to help you get back on your feet, Doc,” they’d say. And then, of course, there were the friends he’d made through his son. A district attorney, several police officers, academics, and scientists—it was a surprising group, and one he was very grateful for. And not just because Mike’s wife tended to send enough brisket and kugel to last him for at least a week at a time.

“I’m never going to learn to cook for myself at this rate,” Henry laughed as he sat down to dinner with Joe, Cecile, and Mike.

“I’ve almost forgotten how to boil pasta,” Joe agreed with a chuckle, popping open a bottle of wine. “Oh, don’t worry, Mike. This one’s kosher.”

“Ah, don’t worry about it.” The older detective held up his glass. “The missus needs people to cook for, with our sons all married. It keeps her happy, especially since I can’t tell her about half the things going on in the city these days.” His smile was only a little regretful.

“Right now, it’s keeping her safe.” Henry declined the wine, pouring himself a glass of water instead. “The food helps when I’m too wrapped up in studies to do groceries, really.” “You could go out more,” Cecile suggested. “I’d never say no to lunch. Martin would love to meet up with you to talk about that Jackson kid. Him, Quentin, even Tina McGee.”

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Persecuted, septic and forced to give birth: the realities of a post-Roe America.

For many the reality is far worse than they could have ever expected so some are fighting back, potentially a fight for their health, liberty and the future generations to come. 

The repeal of Roe vs Wade in June 2022 may not have taken a lot of people by surprise, especially after the initial majority draft indicating that the court was going to strike down Roe v Wade was leaked in May 2022 but the devastating impact of the abortion bans that have since come into effect have been unprecedented. As of January 8th 2023 there were 14 states including Texas, North Dakota and Mississippi that had bans in place that mean abortions are prohibited in almost all circumstances with one of the most extreme bans being in Texas. 

In 2021 Texas enacted a trigger ban that meant extremely restrictive abortion measures would come into effect almost immediately if Roe was overturned and the S.B.8 bill was also enacted that essentially put a ban on abortions at six weeks, which is often before a person would know they were pregnant. This piece of legislation allowed private individuals to pursue legal action against abortion providers or those who aid and help with abortions and the effect of this extreme legislation was almost immediate; a nearby abortion clinic in Denver saw an increase of 520% in patients travelling from Texas. Technically women should be allowed an exemption to the six weeks ban if there is a ‘medical emergency’ where the mother has a ‘life threatening condition’ while pregnant or there is a ‘serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function’. 

This exemption doesn’t account for any situation where the foetus is diagnosed with a fatal or life limiting condition and even a pregnant person who is often having a medical emergency may struggle to be awarded an exemption to the extreme ban. In many cases medical professionals and hospitals are fearful of the threatened jail time and potential six figure fines if they provide emergency healthcare that could potentially be seen as an illegal abortion. There is such a lack of clarity surrounding what care medical professionals can provide when someone is experiencing pregnancy complications that there is often a delay in care or patients are so worried about being accused of having an abortion they don’t seek help until it is almost too late. 

Recently Kate Cox sought an abortion in Texas after she discovered that her unborn child had a fatal condition that according to her physician would have meant the child was unlikely to survive birth and if Kate continued with the pregnancy it would have likely impacted her ability to become pregnant again in the future. Kate already had two children with her husband and had been clear that she wished to have more in the future so this wasn’t a choice she made lightly but she felt as if this was the best choice for her and her family.

In the eyes of her doctor Kate should have received a ‘good-faith exception’ to the abortion ban to allow her to safely end the non viable pregnancy but the Texas Attorney General got involved in the case after a lower Texas court granted the exemption. The Attorney General responded by threatening Kate’s doctors and the hospitals they worked at with criminal consequences like 99 years of jail time and the loss of medical licences. 

The Texas Supreme court refused to uphold the decision made by the lower court but by the time the ruling was made Kate had left the state to have an abortion elsewhere, as she should have been free to do in her home state surrounded by her loved ones. Regardless of a person’s personal circumstances any person capable of pregnancy should be free to make their own medical choices under the advice and support of their medical team. Especially when the consequence of not being able to do that is having a child in a country with no guaranteed paid parental leave, extremely high levels of child poverty and an unacceptably high maternal mortality rate, as of 2018 there was a massive 17.4 maternal deaths per 100,000 live births. 

Not to mention that any reason a pregnancy isn’t the right choice for the person carrying that pregnancy is a perfectly acceptable reason to have an abortion, it doesn’t matter if that person already has kids and can’t afford anymore or simply doesn’t want to bear the burden of pregnancy and child rearing. 

When Kate first researched her options she found that many other women in Texas had also been unable to have an abortion in medical emergency situations and had come together to tell a court about their experiences. Kate decided that she also wanted to go public with the heartbreaking and frustrating situation she found herself in, at the time she became the first woman to sue for abortion access while pregnant since the repeal of Roe v Wade. 

For many, Kate’s story particularly resonated with them and sent the message very clearly that the Texas laws are too extreme and border on cruel. It makes it seem like Texas has very little regard for people capable of pregnancy and their concerns about their welfare and their future health. Doctors have been forced under these laws to delay life saving treatment and watch a patient almost reach a point of no return before being able to act under the fear of legal and professional repercussions. 

While the repeal of Roe v Wade has undoubtedly increased the persecution and fear associated with abortion there has always been situations that seem to be examples of law enforcement criminalising reproductive healthcare. Between 2000 and 2020 61 people, including 7 minors, were criminally investigated or arrested for either helping someone end their pregnancy or ending their own. In many of these cases ‘self-managed abortions’ are not actually banned and only 14 of these cases were illegal under ‘self-managed abortion’ laws but in many of the cases they were charged under laws that prosecutors were able to make fit their criminal case. 

In these cases, which could absolutely be seen as a state is using its power illegitimately to wrongfully charge people, 54 cases involved adults and of the 42 that made it to criminal court 40% of the cases involved people of colour. 

People of colour are far more likely to be disproportionately affected by the repeal of Roe v Wade and the further abortion bans especially when states limit organisations and clinics like Planned Parenthood. In 45% of the cases that were reported to the police for a suspicion of a ‘self-managed abortions’ a healthcare provider or social service worker were the ones who tipped off the police. People of colour are more likely to experience racism in the healthcare sector and are often at a much higher risk for complications and death during birth but the injustice in their reproductive freedoms doesn’t end there. 

Historically, abortion was fairly common and unregulated until the mid 1800s with the limit usually being around the four month mark before a woman could feel any foetal movements but over 50% of those who were supplying reproductive care were black women, some of whom were enslaved, as white men were rarely involved in anything obstetric before the civil war. While abortion didn’t become illegal until after the civil war the rules for black women and white women were vastly different and the systematic racism black women face when accessing reproductive healthcare now has a dark history revolving around slavery and the idea that white men had the ultimate say. 

According to the laws pre-civil war a white woman could have an abortion with the help of a midwife, who were massively trusted and important parts of the community, yet a black woman couldn’t. Under law, a white man would own his enslaved women in all ways including their reproductive systems and by ensuring black women had children he was able to continue the cycle of enslavement. 

Some enslaved women had access to herbs that would stimulate menstruation and essentially end the pregnancy but they would often have to do it in secret and if anything were to go wrong there would be no time to recover or access medical care. While slavery may have been abolished over 150 years ago black women and women of colour in general still face far harsher judgement around their choices regarding having children or not. Yet black women in particular have to take into account the dangers associated with giving birth as the rate for maternal mortality in black women is 2.6 times higher than the rate for white women. 

This figure depicts maternal mortality rates by race and Hispanic origin in the United States 2018-2021 and clearly shows how disproportionately black women are affected by the maternal mortality crisis in the US, in 2021 alone black women had a maternal mortality rate of 69.9 deaths per 100,000 live births. Contributing factors to this include the deeply entrenched racism in US society and doctors' seeming unwillingness to believe black women when they are in pain or feel as if something is not right, this causes higher maternal deaths but also leads to black babies being more likely to die or be born prematurely. 

Angelica Lyons is a black woman from Birmingham, Alabama who worked as a public health instructor at the University of Alabama and when she became pregnant with her first child it was a time of great joy and excitement yet it soon turned into a painful and terrifying experience. Angelica began to experience extreme stomach pain that sent her to the hospital on more than one occasion but she was often ignored and just sent home despite her extreme pain and begging for help. She was ignored until the pain became so bad that her baby’s heart rate plummeted and she had no other option but an emergency caesarean where it soon became clear that she had been suffering from an undiagnosed case of sepsis. 

This healthcare scenario had nothing to do with an abortion or Angelica being forced into pregnancy but it has everything to do with the experiences black women have when it comes to making choices surrounding childbirth, pregnancy and contraception. Alabama has the third highest maternal mortality rate in the country and has an almost complete ban on abortion but why should a black woman be forced into pregnancy when she is 2.6 times more likely to die during birth? Situations like this make it so unbelievably obvious that while the ‘pro-life’ movement claims to be about saving innocent lives or advocating for those that can't, they are willing to ignore systemic racism that negatively impacts millions of adults and children. 

Black Americans experience higher rates of illnesses like asthma, diabetes, high blood pressure and Alzheimer’s largely in part due to having less access to medical care which also means their life expectancy is shorter. For a long time black people have almost been blamed for their health conditions as if their genetics or lifestyle choices were mainly responsible but in reality things like housing restrictions and lack of access factor massively. In the past two decades alone the increased mortality rate in African Americans means there have been an additional 1.6 million deaths compared to white Americans. 

Now more than ever the lack of paid parental leave, high maternal deaths and deeply entrenched racism in both society and the healthcare system are incredibly important issues as by losing the legal protection Roe V Wade provided millions of people capable of pregnancy it means they no longer have full control over their own bodies. For many people who are capable of pregnancy the Supreme Court's decision to send the United States of America back decades if not more in terms of reproductive healthcare and liberation was a devastating blow and something that made it seem as if their country is making choices that are not only unpopular but dangerous. 

The US is one of four countries in the past 30 years to have rolled back abortion protections alongside Poland, El Salvadour and Nicaragua making it a part of forcing 40% of women of reproductive age to live under restrictive laws, that is around 753 million women. Not only was the choice to repeal Roe V Wade extremely dangerous and a choice that I personally found deeply upsetting, it was also a decision that massively goes against what the majority of Americans believe is the right thing to do. Around 80% of Americans believe abortion should be legal in some form with around two thirds of women disapproving of the decision and 52% of people saying that the overturning is a ‘step backward for America’. 

Currently ongoing in Texas is a lawsuit that was filed by ‘The Center for Reproductive Rights’ on behalf of seven original plaintiffs but that number has since grown to over 20 but when it was originally filed it was on behalf of five Texas women who were denied abortion care and as a result faced risks to their health, fertility and lives. Alongside those five were two doctors (obstetrician gynaecologists) who felt trapped by these extreme bans and as if they were unable to help their patients in any meaningful way. 

Amanda Zurawski is the lead plaintiff in this case and was denied an abortion despite experiencing preterm labour while only 18 weeks pregnant and when she went to a Catholic hospital was turned away as they could still detect a foetal heartbeat. Only three days later she returned to the hospital showing signs of an extreme infection and was diagnosed with sepsis but by this point the only option was an emergency abortion that caused her to spend three days in intensive care fighting for her life. 

The infection damaged her fallopian tubes to the point it has permanently closed and has impacted her ability to become pregnant again and she now has to rely on IVF which is both an expensive and very invasive process. Surely the Texas exemption on the basis of there is a ‘serious risk of substantial impairment of a major bodily function’ would be applicable here but Amanda was left to suffer for far too long and her situation is unfortunately a perfect example of doctors and hospitals living in fear of the backlash of performing abortions to the detriment of their patients lives. 

In August 2023 a judge ruled on this lawsuit and stated that the state’s abortion ban is far too restrictive for women who are suffering from severe pregnancy complications and that doctors must be allowed to act in their best interests without fear of criminal charges. This ruling could have been seen as a potential victory but almost immediately the Attorney General blocked this ruling and sent an appeal to the Texas supreme court much like what happened with Kate Cox. 

For Amanda Zurawski the brief joy was immense when it seemed possible that a court in Texas might actually side with those who are suffering the consequences of these extreme and cruel bans and for her and the other plaintiffs it felt worth sharing their experiences and trauma despite the immense pain it causes them. 

Yet why should these women have to expose themselves to extreme hatred and vile comments from the right wing when all they want is to be able to access the medical care that is guaranteed to them by their human rights? 

On a personal note, I find the choice to overturn Roe V Wade one I physically feel ill over and while I do not have to live under these bans myself the idea of how many people are going to be forced into pregnancy, child rearing or trapped in a dangerous situation due to their pregnancy makes me so deeply sad and frustrated. This very much feels like a step backwards for millions of people and I am not sure who this choice benefits but I know for a fact it is going to more harshly impact those of a lower economic class and people of colour. 

Being able to make their own choice regarding abortion for some, is the difference between life and death and by taking such a personal medical choice out of the hands of the individual it effectively places them at the mercy of their state and often the conservative politicians and judges that sees these abortion bans as the right way forward. 

Is there any recovery from this or is America doomed to be the land of the free but only for those without the capability of pregnancy?

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Jenelle Evans‘ days of running her mouth online about her son Jace are over.

The Sun broke the news (and The Ashley can confirm) that a judge in the ongoing CPS custody case for Jace was set to sign off on a gag order at the Monday’s court hearing that would forbid the fired Teen Mom 2 star (as well as her husband David Eason) from discussing Jace’s custody case— or anything relating to it— online or in interviews.

The Ashley can confirm that the gag order was first brought up during last week’s CPS court hearing, which was attended by Jenelle, David and Jenelle’s mom Barbara Evans. (For those wondering, David was allowed to attend the hearing because Jace was not present. As The Ashley previously told you, David is not allowed to be near Jace or have any communication with him, due to his pending child abuse charge for his alleged assault on Jace.)

The Sun reports that the gag order was put in place because Jace was “emotionally distressed” after seeing Jenelle’s frequent posts on social media. As fans know, Jenelle has posted about Jace, CPS, her mom Barbara and other aspects of the case over the last few months. She has also made numerous posts in defense of David, something The Sun claims has also disturbed Jace.

“Her son Jace, 14, was upset at her public comments siding with her husband David Eason, who stands accused of child abuse,” The Sun reported.

The Ashley can exclusively confirm that Jenelle’s mom Barbara is also under the gag order, meaning that she can’t publicly discuss the case in interviews or on social media. (To date, Barb has only spoken about Jace twice in interviews, with one being in August when she was asked by TMZ to comment about Jace’s first attempt at running away from Jenelle’s.) 

Jace’s long-lost father, Andrew Lewis, confirmed to The Sun that he, too, is under the gag order…. and The Ashley knows why!

“Can’t talk about it. Period. It’s been officially gagged sorry,” Andrew said when The Sun contacted him for comment.

The Ashley can also confirm that Andrew is now involved in the CPS custody case with Jace and has been for several weeks.

The CPS court hearing on Monday was likely going to cover how much (if any) part Andrew will have in determining what happens to Jace. (As The Ashley previously told you, Jace is not currently living with Barbara and has not spoken to Jenelle since the alleged assault in late September. And, despite some fans’ theories, Jace has not gone to live with his dad Andrew.)

“Andrew was part of the hearing last week,” The Ashley’s source said. “Jenelle wasn’t aware until that point that Andrew was going to be included in the case and was really surprised.”

The Ashley’s source tells her that Jace is currently “thrilled” to be having a relationship with his dad.

As ‘Teen Mom 2’ fans know, Andrew has had little to no communication with Jace for most of his life. While Andrew did pay Barbara— and then Jenelle— child support, he did not interact with Jace. Earlier this year, Andrew did several interviews stating he would like a relationship with his son.

While Jace is interested in keeping in touch with Andrew, The Ashley’s source tells her that he has no interest whatsoever in talking to Jenelle. (Currently, Jace is able to decide who he wants to communicate with.) 

Because Andrew is now involved in the case, he has to follow the gag order. 

(For those who are unaware, according to MTSU’s Freedom Speech Center, “judges issue injunctions barring trial participants — including attorneys, litigants, and witnesses — from discussing trial-related material outside the courtroom.”)

Because a gag order is now in place, it almost certainly means that anyone who is part of the custody case is also forbidden from discussing the custody case/situation with Jace as well. The gag order would also forbid any court worker, law enforcement agent or CPS employee from talking about the case or discussing it with Jace.

The Ashley will update this story when more info is available.

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The Role of a Family Lawyer in Western Sydney: What to Expect?

Family law matters can be emotionally charged, especially during divorce, custody disputes, or property settlements. Family lawyers in Western Sydney play a significant role in guiding clients through complex legal procedures. Knowing what to expect from a family lawyer may ease some of the tension involved in these legal processes.

Understanding Family Law Services

Family lawyers in Western Sydney cater to all services that can meet their clients' various needs. Most of the services they provide range from the following:

Divorce and Separation: Providing guidance to their clients on how to legally dissolve a marriage through application or settlement negotiations.

Child Custody and Support: Representing children's interests, as well as assisting parents to reach agreements about where the child would stay and on financial matters for the child.

Property Settlements: Asset and liability assessment to ensure a fair division during divorce action.

Spousal Maintenance: Advice on financial support requirements between spouses after separation.

Domestic Violence Matters: Advocate legal protection and support for those affected by domestic violence through restraining orders, safety planning, and other mechanisms.

What to Expect During Your Initial Consultation

Upon your first visit with your own family legal professional in Western Sydney, an initial session should be cognisance of the scenario you face. Such an appointment generally consists of:

Discussion of Your Case: You will proportion with the lawyer your instances, together with your marriage, children, and any instant worries.

Legal Guidance: The attorney is expected to give an explanation of the relevant laws and legal processes that apply to your case, offering insights into capability effects.

Options for Resolution: You will talk about numerous avenues to remedy your problems, together with negotiation, mediation or court docket movements.

This initial consultation presents you with the opportunity to test if the lawyer is in great health in your wishes.

Importance of Compassionate Representation

Family law is private in nature and includes touchy issues. 

A suitable family attorney in Western Sydney knows the emotional weight of such cases and approaches each situation with compassion and empathy. 

They no longer have the best intention to protect your prison rights but also to help your emotional well-being for the duration of the procedure.

Navigating Complex Legal Processes

The legal landscape surrounding family law can be complex. Family lawyers are equipped to handle various aspects of the law, including:

Documentation Preparation: Ensuring all necessary legal documents are accurately prepared and filed on time.

Negotiation Skills: Advocating on your behalf during negotiations with the other party or their legal representatives.

Court Representation: If your case proceeds to court, your lawyer will represent you, presenting evidence and arguments to support your position.

Costs Associated with Family Lawyers

Understanding the financial aspect of hiring a family lawyer is essential. Costs can vary significantly based on the complexity of your case and the lawyer's fee structure. It is advisable to discuss fees upfront during your consultation to avoid any surprises later on.

Handle these complex issues emotionally & practically!

Engaging a family lawyer in Western Sydney can provide invaluable support during some of life’s most challenging moments. Such professionals include those who will navigate a divorce case and help make child custody arrangements. These professionals, therefore, ensure the best outcome for clients by offering skillful representation through challenging processes like divorce. You, therefore, approach divorce situations with confidence, knowing an expert family lawyer is handling you throughout the process. Whether you are going through a divorce or require help with child custody issues, knowing what a family lawyer does is important to successfully navigate these complex legal waters.

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Reliable and Professional Divorce Lawyer in Brampton Services

Are you uncertain about how to proceed with a divorce? Going through a divorce can be emotionally and financially challenging, and understanding the legal requirements is essential for a smooth process. The laws of divorce in Ontario include complicated aspects like asset separation, spousal support, and child custody. All these factors will be pivotal in determining a fair settlement. An experienced legal professional can make all the difference in understanding the rights and protection of your interests.

A Divorce Lawyer in Brampton would ensure the smoothness and efficiency of a divorce. All important things, such as filing time, necessary documents, and procedures in the courts, will be taken care of in the whole procedure whether it is an uncontested or a contested divorce. Most lawyers offer individualized attention according to a client’s specific needs and conditions, including required information about local regulations affecting your case. Understanding Uncontested vs Contested Divorces Cases may be either uncontested or contested. For an uncontested divorce, spouses will agree to all terms; these are asset division and determination of a child custody arrangement. Contested divorces tend to be relatively cost-effective and speedy. An attorney specializing in divorce will guide you through the discussion that will create any necessary agreements and will also file all the papers and keep you informed about all that is happening. There are instances where couples favour uncontested divorces as the couple might need a fast, amicable settlement of their marriage.

With a contested divorce, the parties cannot agree on one or more aspects of the separation; hence, the cases take up a lot of time to be heard in court and translate to higher legal fees. At such a time, the experience of a divorce lawyer can be of utmost importance while representing your interest and the need for a just conclusion. An attorney would guide you through the laborious negotiations, court sessions that you may be required to sit through, and eventually, an amicable settlement suited to your interests. Why is a local divorce lawyer important? Many other advantages come in the course of taking a divorce lawyer in Brampton. Such attorneys are significantly informed about Ontario family law as well as any system present inside local courts, such protocols that will be utilized when it is needed by the case for you. There can be easy availability with them along with walk-in consultations for support without worry and even with trusted communications.

In addition, divorce lawyers in Brampton charge mostly flat rates which will be helpful in cost management and prevent surprise charges. The choice of a local attorney will not only make the process easier but also ensure that your lawyer is easily accessible to respond to all your questions or concerns in the case.

In a nutshell, a professional Divorce Lawyer in Brampton applying his expertise and knowledge will provide you with all the tools and confidence necessary for this process to run so smoothly and that gives you the best possible outcomes for the future.

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Annelise Ysabelle von Hohenberg—known simply as Belle—had always been different. growing up in berlin as the only child of an influential family, she could have been like many of her peers, comfortable with her privileges and unbothered by the lives of those around her. but Belle was different. even as a child, she was magnetic, a combination of intelligence, kindness, and curiosity that made people want to be around her. she charmed without trying to, not because she was outgoing or extravagant, but because she truly listened, and people felt it. friends, teachers, and even strangers sensed her warmth, drawn to the way she quietly took everything in, as if each conversation mattered.

by her teens, Belle’s empathy had blossomed into a rare kind of intuition. she seemed to understand people’s hidden feelings and worries, and she knew how to put others at ease with just a few words. her teachers saw this gift as something that went beyond academic intelligence; Belle was sharp, yes, but she had a depth that couldn’t be learned from books. her parents, though proud of her, were initially puzzled when she told them she wanted to pursue law—especially family and divorce law. they had always pictured her following her mother’s path in fashion or perhaps venturing into the world of business, where her father thrived. but for Belle, the allure of family law was obvious. here was a field where she could put her understanding of people to use, helping them through some of their hardest times.

by the time she applied to one of berlin’s top law schools, her family’s surprise had faded into support. Belle was fiercely determined, studying late into the night and balancing her natural talent with tireless preparation. at only 17, she gained acceptance into law school, a rare feat that didn’t go unnoticed. her professors were immediately impressed, not just by her academic abilities but by her emotional intelligence—her capacity to sense the dynamics in a room, to listen thoughtfully, and to speak with a quiet authority that made others listen.

Belle worked her way through law school with a focus and maturity that set her apart. she had a way of making classmates and professors alike feel comfortable and respected, and even the toughest professors admired her balanced approach: Belle was dedicated to her studies but never harsh or overly competitive. she simply wanted to understand, to absorb, to make sense of the complexities of human relationships.

at just 22, Belle began her career as a family and divorce lawyer. she was younger than most of her colleagues, but she quickly made a name for herself. her clients, often facing incredibly personal and painful circumstances, felt at ease with her from the start. she had a calm presence that was reassuring, not in a formal or overly polite way, but in a way that felt real. people could tell she was genuinely interested in their well-being, and they trusted her because she didn’t rush them or make them feel like just another case.

Belle’s early cases were challenging, but she handled them with a blend of skill and heart that her clients appreciated. she never sought the spotlight, but people noticed her. some of berlin’s most influential families began reaching out, and Belle’s reputation grew—not for being aggressive in the courtroom but for her steady, compassionate approach that brought a sense of calm to even the most challenging cases.

today, Annelise Ysabelle von Hohenberg is carving out a space for herself in the world of family law. people are starting to talk about her, not as the daughter of a prominent family, but as a lawyer in her own right—a young attorney with a talent for understanding people and guiding them through some of life’s most difficult transitions. her journey is still just beginning, but she is quickly becoming known as someone who is more than capable, someone who brings a sense of dignity and humanity to a field that often lacks both. Belle has found her place, and for those who know her, it’s no surprise at all.

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Your Complete Guide to Hiring a Rochester Divorce Lawyer

Navigating a divorce can be complex and emotionally challenging, making the choice of the right attorney critical. Whether you're looking for a Rochester divorce lawyer or a family law attorney in Rochester, MN, this guide will help you understand key considerations for hiring legal support.

Why Hiring a Rochester Divorce Lawyer Is Important

Divorce involves complex issues like custody arrangements, property division, and spousal support. Experienced Rochester divorce attorneys offer the legal knowledge and compassionate guidance needed to protect your rights during this challenging time.

Family Law Experience

Choose a lawyer with family law expertise, especially if your case involves contested issues like custody or asset division. Local knowledge of Rochester, MN, family law can make a big difference.

Reputation

Research reviews and testimonials to gauge an attorney's reputation. Firms like BPC Attorneys have established a reputation for achieving favorable outcomes.

Communication and Attention

The best Rochester divorce lawyers are responsive and approachable. Schedule a consultation to ensure they are a good fit and communicate well.

Local Knowledge

Laws vary by state and county, so working with a local Rochester lawyer ensures familiarity with specific regulations and court procedures.

Cost and Fees

Discuss fee structures upfront, including hourly rates or flat fees, to avoid surprises and help you budget effectively.

Services Offered by Rochester Divorce Lawyers

A skilled lawyer will assist with:

Divorce and Separation: Representation in court or mediation for no-fault or contested divorces.

Child Custody and Support: Assistance in negotiating fair custody and support arrangements.

Alimony: Calculation and negotiation of spousal support.

Property Division: Ensuring equitable asset distribution.

Steps to Hire the Right Lawyer

Research and Review

Look into firms with family law experience in Rochester, MN, and check their track record.

Consultation

Use consultations to gauge the attorney’s strategy, experience, and fit for your case.

Review the Contract

Review terms carefully, including scope and fees, before signing.

Final Thoughts

Divorce is challenging, but with the guidance of experienced Rochester divorce lawyers or family law attorneys in Rochester, MN, you can achieve a fair resolution. If you're considering divorce, seek legal counsel early. Firms like BPC Attorneys offer the expertise to help you confidently navigate this transition.

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5-Year-Old Develops Autism After Being Forced to Get 18 Vaccines in 1 Day

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., Children’s Health Defense

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children’s Health Defense’s News & Views Website.

In 2016, David Ihben moved his wife and three children from Chicago to Jamestown, in rural Tennessee, with high hopes for a new and calmer life.

But the dream turned into a nightmare for David and his children in December 2019, when divorce proceedings and a subsequent custody battle resulted in the forced vaccination of the children — and changed the family’s fortunes forever.

Ihben said his ex-wife decided “this wasn’t the life she wanted.” So they were attempting to develop a parenting plan in family court — when Tennessee judge Todd Burnett “pulled up the vaccine issue” after discovering the couple’s children were unvaccinated — and forced the parents to vaccinate their children.

Ihben’s two oldest children — daughter Hannah and son Joseph — were spared significant adverse events following their vaccination.

But his youngest son, Isaac, wasn’t so fortunate. After receiving 18 vaccines in one day, Isaac developed severe regressive autism. Today, he requires around-the-clock care.

The children’s mother soon abandoned the children, leaving Ihben to raise them as a single parent — even though he is still obliged to pay child support.

Ihben shared his story with Children’s Health Defense’s (CHD) Vax-Unvax bus. In a subsequent interview with The Defender, he detailed the challenges he faces in caring for Isaac and the harassment he endured from officials in his community. Ihben shared documentation with The Defender verifying his story.

‘How can a judge force medical care without a doctor’s input?’

Ihben told The Defender his entire family was unvaccinated. “I’ve never had any. My dad was drafted by the Army in 1961, and he didn’t get any either. We’ve never vaccinated,” he said. “Our children had to sign religious exemptions for school.”

During divorce proceedings though, his wife’s attorney used the vaccination issue to drive a wedge between the parents.

“When we went to court, I guess her attorney knew that [Burnett] was a pro-vaccine judge and that’s something that they could get me on,” Ihben said.

According to Ihben, Burnett told the couple that it was his “personal opinion that not vaccinating your children is child abuse.” He then told the couple that whichever parent would be willing to vaccinate the children that same day would leave the courthouse with custody.

“I said, ‘Your Honor, we have rights. It’s between the mom and their father,’” Ihben recalled. “Her attorney whispered to her, and she goes, ‘I’ll take them down and vaccinate them today.’”

“I was so surprised, because me and my ex-wife didn’t agree on much, but we did agree on that,” Ihben said, referring to their views on vaccination.

After the hearing, Ihben and his wife were granted joint custody of the children, with their mother as their primary guardian. Later that day, the children received their childhood vaccines — and Isaac immediately became sick.

“My daughter had previous allergies … so the doctor refused to give her all in one day. They split those … She didn’t have any side effects from what I can see,” Ihben said. “[Joseph] was in the ICU for a couple of days but seems to be okay. But [Isaac] spent 12 days in the ICU, eight days with a 106-degree fever.”

Isaac, who was 5 years old at the time, was “just a normal happy kid,” Ihben said.

Today, Isaac has severe regressive autism. Ihben told The Defender:

“He doesn’t talk. He wears a diaper. He eats out of a baby bottle 20-30 times a day, he has speech therapy and will require 24-hour care and supervision for the rest of his life.

“I haven’t had a full night’s sleep in four years. He has to be changed every two hours, or he will have an accident. If you have a child with regressive autism or know someone, you will understand what our days are like.”

Ihben didn’t learn about Isaac’s injuries right away, because the court initially slapped him with a six-month restraining order. When the six months were up, he finally made plans to pick up his children for “two-hour supervised visitation” at a local McDonald’s.

“My youngest comes walking out and I’m like, ‘What’s going on?’” He said his oldest children then told him about what happened to Isaac. “My children told me everything that’s going on. Basically, nobody’s given me information. I had to go off what 10- and 11-year-olds were telling me,” Ihben said.

Ihben tried to find out what happened to Isaac — but encountered more obstacles at Cookeville Regional Medical Center, his local hospital. “The judge had sealed the hospital records. I still cannot get them,” he said.

It wasn’t until he enrolled his daughter in high school that, while obtaining her records from the local health department, he had a chance to view Isaac’s records. That’s when he saw that Isaac had received 18 vaccines in one day.

“How can a judge force medical care without a doctor’s input?” Ihben asked. “I don’t think judges should be dictating medical treatment from the bench.”

According to Ihben, doctors at Vanderbilt University in Nashville said Isaac’s injuries “are a direct result from forced vaccination,” with one doctor telling Ihben that “she’s seen only one other kid that acts like Isaac does.”

Required to continue paying child support, despite mother’s disappearance

Soon after seeing his children for the first time after the custody battle, another surprise was in store for Ihben and his family: Ihben’s ex-wife called to say she and the children had been evicted.

After he kept the children for a week, their mother “got a free house, everything furnished and paid,” and the children were returned to her.

“Then she got evicted from there” in May 2020, Ihben said. He again picked up the children — but that was the last they saw of their mother. According to Ihben, after her second eviction, she left town without a trace.

“We haven’t heard from her or seen her,” Ihben said. “It’ll be five years in May.”

Ihben still pays child support to the state, even though he alone takes care of the children. He said the child support money, which remains uncollected, goes to a state fund — and, if it remains unclaimed, will be confiscated by the state when the children reach adulthood.

Ihben said that though he has gone to court to request full custody of his children or a reduction of his child support payments, he has faced a catch-22 situation.

“The judge said, I can’t do anything unless you get her here in front of me,” Ihben said. “I was like, ‘I’ve served her. Nobody knows where she is.’”

Ihben said he believes the children’s mother didn’t realize Isaac was going to be hurt so badly, and “she just can’t face it.” He added, “I just don’t understand, if she’s been gone almost five years, why she still has full custody, why I still have to pay child support.”

Tennessee laws, local officials pose challenges for raising Isaac

Ihben described the day-to-day realities of caring for Isaac, who will turn 11 next month and just started the fifth grade in a special education program. He said:

“Our lives have changed forever. I can’t have a regular job. I pick up stuff here and there … I have an alarm that goes off every two hours to change Isaac. He eats in the middle of the night … We live out in the country. There’s no bus, so I take him to school back and forth.

“He doesn’t talk, so you don’t know if he’s sick, if he’s upset, if he’s hungry, if he’s cold, if he has a stomach ache … I’ve got a mental list, and I just check it off and hopefully I hit the one that calms him and provides what he needs.”

State rules also pose obstacles. “You’re not allowed to have home healthcare for a disabled child unless you have no other children in the home under 18,” Ihben said.

Ihben noted that Tennessee ranks among the states with the lowest level of funding for autistic children, adding that autistic children are frequently mistreated.

“Our local school district has restraint chairs for autistic children. They are allowed to put Isaac in a chair, to pepper spray him, to tase him. Police departments have no training for dealing with autistic children,” Ihben said.

Ihben said state, county and town officials have attempted to intimidate him and his family.

According to Ihben, the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation (TBI) showed up at his home on Dec. 5, 2023. “Somebody starts beating on the door … there’s a truck at the end of the road, a truck at the end of the other road and two trucks in the driveway. They had assault weapons.”

Ihben said the officers claimed that a social worker wanted to speak with him, but that he refused to open his door for them. He submitted a Freedom of Information Act request to the state to find out why his home was raided, but was told there are “no records of anything.”

The TBI raid took a toll on him. “I had a heart attack that night,” he said. “I couldn’t breathe.” He said the incident still affects him today. “I’m sure I have PTSD from it. I’m still under treatment,” Ihben said.

In June 2023, Ihben said he went to his county commission meeting to tell them about what happened to his family. The county commissioner, Jimmy Johnson, left him a voicemail warning him not to hold any rally or protest.

“The commissioner called the sheriff,” Ihben said, but ultimately “they backed off.”

In another incident, Ihben said he was banned from his local Walmart store after a store manager called the police because Isaac “was causing a disturbance.” This obliged Ihben to shop at another Walmart, an hour away from his home.

Ihben said it’s also difficult to find a lawyer to represent him and his family. “No attorney is willing to take on the judge.”

Local officials ‘tried to scare us’ into not doing Vax-Unvax bus interview

Ihben credited CHD and its Tennessee Chapter for helping him and his family. “We wouldn’t be here without CHD helping us out,” Ihben said. “The Tennessee Chapter has helped us out a lot.”

Ihben said he recently saw “Vaxxed 3” with members of the state’s CHD chapter. “What we have to live through every day is horrible, but it could be worse,” Ihben said, citing stories in the film of children who died post-vaccination.

According to Ihben, his efforts to promote CHD initiatives in his community, such as the visit of the Vax-Unvax bus earlier this year, have also been met with intimidation.

“We put a little flyer together [for the Vax-Unvax bus] and we started passing it out,” Ihben said. But on Feb. 5, the day of his bus interview, Ihben said his wife’s attorney, also her husband — who is the attorney for the local school board — and Burnett, who mobilized the TBI, “tried to scare us into not doing the bus interview.”

Getting the word out, spreading the message is ‘the only weapon we have’

Isaac has recently shown some improvement, according to Ihben. “He’s doing better slowly … He’s in a lot of therapy. He’s starting to write some numbers and letters on his own. Teachers think he’s reading, but he’s still never said a word.”

Ihben said this has been a learning experience for his oldest children, who will “have to take care of Isaac every day” after his death. “That’s a lifetime commitment.”

Another silver lining, according to Ihben, is that Isaac’s story has become a learning experience for his family and many members of his local community.

“This hasn’t just got me learning. My kids are learning. Hannah and Joseph are learning about their government and their food and their environment. They’re teaching their friends about this.”

For Ihben, getting the word out and spreading the message is “the only weapon we have.” He said, “It’s powerful that my kids’ friends come up and say ‘we’re sorry for what happened to you, we’ve seen the [Vax-Unvax] interview.’”

Ihben said he hopes the message will help other children avoid Isaac’s fate. “I hope Isaac will be the last,” he said.

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Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D.

Michael Nevradakis, Ph.D., based in Athens, Greece, is a senior reporter for The Defender and part of the rotation of hosts for CHD.TV's "Good Morning CHD."

This article was originally published by The Defender — Children's Health Defense's News & Views Website under Creative Commons license CC BY-NC-ND 4.0. Please consider subscribing to The Defender or donating to Children’s Health Defense.

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How to Choose a Family Lawyer in Toronto - Gottlieb Family Law

When facing family-related legal issues, such as divorce, child custody, or property disputes, selecting the right family lawyer is crucial. In Toronto, where legal options are abundant, making the right choice can feel overwhelming. Here’s a guide to help you navigate the selection process and find a suitable attorney who aligns with your needs.

Understand Your Needs

Before beginning your search for a family lawyer in Toronto, take time to identify your specific needs. Are you dealing with a divorce, child custody issues, or spousal support? Each area of family law has its complexities, so understanding your situation will help you find a lawyer who specializes in the relevant field.

Research Family Law Firms

In Toronto, there are numerous family law firms, each with its unique strengths and focus areas. A reputable firm like Gottlieb Family Law is known for its comprehensive approach and client-focused services. Researching various firms can provide insight into their expertise, client reviews, and case outcomes. Look for firms that emphasize their experience in family law to ensure they are well-equipped to handle your situation.

Check Qualifications and Experience

When narrowing down your options, consider the qualifications and experience of potential lawyers. Look for a Toronto family lawyer who has extensive experience in family law and a solid track record in similar cases. This information is often available on the law firm’s website, including details about the lawyer's education, years in practice, and specific areas of expertise.

Schedule Consultations

Most family law firms offer initial consultations, often free of charge. This is an excellent opportunity to gauge whether a lawyer is a good fit for you. During the consultation, prepare questions about their experience, approach to your case, and estimated timelines. Pay attention to how comfortable you feel discussing your situation; a good lawyer should be empathetic and understanding while providing clear, honest advice.

Evaluate Communication Style

Effective communication is vital in any legal matter. When meeting with potential lawyers, assess their communication style. Are they attentive and responsive to your questions? Do they explain legal concepts in a way that makes sense to you? Your lawyer should be someone you feel comfortable communicating with throughout your case, as this can significantly impact the outcome.

Consider Costs and Fees

Understanding the financial aspects of hiring a family lawyer is essential. Different law firms have varying fee structures, including hourly rates, retainer fees, and flat fees for specific services. Be sure to discuss costs upfront and get a clear understanding of what to expect. A firm like Gottlieb Family Law is transparent about its fees, helping clients plan accordingly and avoid any surprises down the road.

Read Reviews and Testimonials

Client reviews and testimonials can provide valuable insights into a lawyer’s reputation and the quality of service provided by a family law firm in Toronto. Look for feedback regarding responsiveness, professionalism, and overall client satisfaction. This information can help you make a more informed decision.

Trust Your Instincts

Ultimately, choosing a family lawyer in Toronto is a personal decision. Trust your instincts and select a lawyer who not only meets your professional needs but also makes you feel comfortable and supported.

In conclusion, selecting the right family lawyer can make a significant difference in the outcome of your case. By understanding your needs, researching options like Gottlieb Family Law, evaluating qualifications, and trusting your instincts, you can find the best legal representation for your family law matters.

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10 Questions to Ask Your Family Law Attorney in Salt Lake City

When navigating a family law matter such as divorce, child custody, or property division, selecting the right attorney is one of the most crucial decisions you’ll make. Family law issues can be highly complex and emotionally charged, so finding an attorney who is knowledgeable, compassionate, and well-suited to your case is essential. To help you make the best choice, here are 10 critical questions to ask a family law attorney in Salt Lake City. Each question offers a deeper understanding of the attorney’s experience, approach, and suitability for handling your case.

Why It’s Important to Ask Questions Before Hiring

Family law matters can be one of the most significant challenges people face. They impact everything from finances to children and the stability of your future. Therefore, asking the right questions before hiring a family law attorney can clarify if they possess the skills, experience, and approach to help you achieve the best possible outcome. Let’s dive into the key questions that will guide your decision.

Question #1: What is Your Experience with Family Law Cases?

Understanding Their Background

One of the first questions to ask any potential family law attorney is about their experience. Family law is a vast field that encompasses multiple areas, including divorce, child custody, spousal support, property division, and adoption. When an attorney has a solid background in family law, they’re more likely to anticipate challenges, understand nuances, and provide accurate guidance.

Look for Depth and Breadth

Ask about the types of cases they have handled and any specific experience that may align with your situation. For example, if your case involves complex property division or international child custody matters, you’ll want an attorney with demonstrated experience in these areas.

Question #2: What Approach Do You Take in Family Law Cases?

Litigation vs. Mediation

Different family law attorneys have varying approaches to handling cases. Some lean toward mediation and collaboration, aiming to resolve issues without court intervention. Others are skilled litigators, focusing on defending their clients' interests in a courtroom setting.

Aligning Their Approach with Your Goals

Before choosing an attorney, consider your goals and whether their approach aligns with what you want. For instance, if you’re hoping for an amicable settlement in a divorce case, you’ll want an attorney who emphasizes mediation and negotiation. On the other hand, if you anticipate a more contentious process, an attorney with a strong litigation background may be more suitable.

Question #3: How Do You Handle Communication with Clients?

Setting Expectations on Communication

Clear and frequent communication is essential during any family law case. You want an attorney who will provide updates, explain complex legal jargon, and answer your questions as they arise.

Preferred Communication Methods

Ask about their preferred method of communication—email, phone, or in-person—and how frequently you can expect updates. Knowing this in advance helps set clear expectations, ensuring you stay informed throughout the process.

Question #4: What Can I Expect in Terms of Legal Fees?

Understanding Cost Structures

Family law cases can vary significantly in terms of costs. It’s essential to understand an attorney’s fee structure before hiring them to avoid surprises. Ask if they charge an hourly rate, a flat fee, or require a retainer.

Additional Expenses

If applicable, find out about any additional expenses, such as court fees, document filing fees, and costs for expert witnesses or investigators. Make sure you have a clear understanding of what you’ll be financially responsible for so you can plan your budget accordingly.

Question #5: Who Will Be Working on My Case?

The Role of the Lead Attorney and Support Staff

In many law firms, cases are often handled by a team, which might include paralegals, junior associates, and administrative staff. While the lead attorney may oversee the case, certain tasks could be delegated to others.

Direct Access and Points of Contact

Understanding who will be handling different aspects of your case can help you set realistic expectations. Clarify if the lead attorney will be your primary point of contact and how much access you will have to them throughout the process.

Question #6: How Long Do You Expect My Case to Take?

Realistic Timelines

Family law cases can vary significantly in duration. Factors such as the complexity of the case, the cooperation of the opposing party, and the availability of court dates can all affect timelines. Ask for a general estimate to help you prepare mentally, emotionally, and financially.

Factors Affecting the Case’s Timeline

An experienced attorney should be able to give you a rough timeline and explain factors that may influence it. While delays can happen, knowing the approximate time involved can help you plan accordingly.

Question #7: How Will You Keep Me Updated on My Case’s Progress?

Importance of Regular Updates

Staying informed about your case’s progress can alleviate stress and help you make timely decisions. Ask how the attorney plans to update you and whether they have a formal process for sending updates.

Frequency and Method of Communication

Some attorneys send regular email updates, while others may call or schedule in-person meetings periodically. Understanding how often and in what way you’ll receive updates ensures you stay in the loop without feeling left in the dark.

Question #8: Do You Have Experience with Local Family Courts?

Importance of Familiarity with Local Courts

Family law practices and procedures can vary depending on the court, so it’s beneficial to have an attorney who knows the judges, court clerks, and processes specific to Salt Lake City. Attorneys with local court experience can help your case move more efficiently and anticipate potential challenges.

Knowledge of Local Judges and Court Staff

An attorney who regularly practices in your area may have insights into local judges’ tendencies and preferences, which can aid in strategizing your case. Ask about their experience working in Salt Lake City family courts and how this local knowledge may benefit your case.

Question #9: How Will You Protect My Interests During Negotiations?

Role of an Attorney in Negotiations

Negotiation is a common aspect of family law cases, especially in divorce, custody, and support matters. An effective family law attorney should advocate for your best interests while working towards an agreeable resolution.

Balancing Negotiation and Litigation

Ask about their negotiation style and how they intend to protect your interests while trying to reach a fair agreement. It’s essential to know if they are prepared to stand firm in negotiations or pivot to litigation if necessary to safeguard your rights.

Question #10: What’s Your Track Record with Cases Like Mine?

Importance of Past Case Success

While every case is unique, an attorney’s track record can offer insight into their experience with cases similar to yours. Whether your case involves a complex custody arrangement or significant financial assets, understanding how they’ve handled similar cases can provide reassurance.

Reviewing Case Outcomes

Ask if they can share examples of past cases or provide general information about their success rate. While specific case details may be confidential, a seasoned attorney should be able to discuss their general success with cases like yours, helping you gauge their capability.

Final Thoughts

Choosing the right family law attorney in Salt Lake City requires thoughtful consideration and a thorough understanding of their experience, approach, and how they align with your goals. By asking these 10 questions, you can assess their qualifications, set realistic expectations, and feel confident that you’re making an informed choice.

Family law matters can be challenging, but the right attorney will provide expert guidance, compassionate support, and effective representation. Taking the time to evaluate your options can make all the difference in ensuring that your family law journey is as smooth and successful as possible.

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