#family law

[catedemia]

19.11.24 — tuesday

i’m aware most of my study desk looks the same but it is the same subject 😭 family law

— anyways, completed hindu marriage laws and by tomorrow i will complete the rest as well

let’s achieve our goals for today ! 💌

[alwaysbewoke]

this year i learned that there's a thing called "permanent alimony" (support paid to the lesser-earning spouse until the death of the payor, the death of the recipient, or the remarriage of the recipient). that alone is reason to NOT get married. nahhhh.

[flipjack]

Jewel Staite for Gloss Boudoir, June 17, 2024

[kellisanth]

[mysharona1987]

Ok, but Gina Carano’s lawyers literally introducing her lawsuit against Disney in the form of the Star Wars opening scroll is grounds for legal malpractice alone.

[wattsandroot]

[callsmehome]

Family Law (2021 - )

[jewelstaite]

[ghlawstudent]

8.12.2023

Family law. Chapter 4, part 4: Alimony.

🎧 ZEROBASEONE - Good Night

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[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.

[flipjack]

Relaxing with Jewel Staite

[erebusvincent]

…

The Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) industry—with its picture catalogues of men and women whose gametes are for sale, its lab-creation of batches of embryos for eugenic sorting, its “gestate-and-release” surrogacy contracts—exists to decouple child-creation from conjugal relation, to segregate gestation from enduring maternal relationship, and to make blood ties irrelevant to legal child custody and identity. The disintegration and fragmentation of persons, parts, and relations—and to subject them all to commercial negotiation—is the entrepreneurial essence and audacity of this technological regime performing a redefinition of human nature. In terms of its biotechnocratic and consumerist framework, the child comes into the world not naturally related to anyone, but only transactionally connected to the persons responsible for summoning him through purchase or technique, or other effort the law may ratify.

When the law permits and coordinates this commerce in persons, it teaches and ensures that the existence of a child is a legal problem for state resolution rather than a preexisting relational truth that obliges state acknowledgment and deference.

Moreover, for the law to discard the truth of the humanly defining relationality of the child to his forebears, in turn deprives law and society of the public premises that make it possible (for instance) to recognize and mourn the pitiable plight of orphans; to know that adoption mitigates a grievous loss; to justly condemn deadbeat dads; and otherwise to recognize a beauty and responsibility of care and support by a father and mother in view of their generative relation to their child. Each of the foregoing concerns is sensible only if the child is, ab initio, in a fixed relation that carries meaning and duties.

But the new legal model on offer proceeds by describing the child instead as a raw datum, ontologically isolated and absolutely individual—without a history and without a certain home—until the happenstance of a managerial adult choice intervenes.

This sort of mechanical-contractual and “gender-neutral” redesign of humanity invites a totalitarian political dynamic. For if the law now refuses to defer and conform uniquely to the authority of the natural family and its filial bonds, and instead redefines marriage and parent (and perhaps even male and female) to assign rigid equivalence in status to persons and relations that are, in fact, profoundly different, then a pristine legal positivism is enacted in which any sphere beyond state construction and command effectively disappears. When the individual is loosed from the natural family and its constraining certainty of relatedness, he (along with his now-contingent relationships) is instead comprehended exclusively within the uncertainties of political solicitude.

Thus, though this family redefinition is carried out under the banner of reproductive and sexual “rights,” instead of accomplishing a limitation on government power it becomes an instrument securing, in principle, the totalism of state jurisdiction. For on this account, parents are deemed provisionally accredited custodians, not naturally vested authorities.

As, on this telling, bodies are mechanisms, with the locus of personal identity present in subjective interiority, the embodied connections of husband and wife, mother and child, father and child are only empirical or mechanical—not meaningful and defining…

[ivygorgon]

👰‍♀️Say NO to Child Marriages in America! Implement Standardized Marriage Age Laws

AN OPEN LETTER to THE PRESIDENT & U.S. CONGRESS; STATE GOVERNORS & LEGISLATURES

2 so far! Help us get to 5 signers!

I am writing to express my deep concerns regarding the discrepancies and alarming loopholes in marriage age laws across the states and to advocate for action towards implementing a standardized marriage age of 18 nationwide, with strict provisions that prohibit underage marriage below 16 and set an age of consent not below 16. Additionally, I recommend setting a consent age gap provision that is no more permissive than at least 14 years old and up to five years older, further ensuring the safety and well-being of our youth.

It is alarming to note that four states—California, Mississippi, New Mexico, and Oklahoma—currently have no official minimum age for marriage but require parental consent or court approval. This inconsistency in laws creates dangerous loopholes that could be exploited by individuals seeking to harm or exploit minors. Allowing underage marriage below the age of 16 poses serious risks, including increased vulnerability to exploitation and abuse.

I urge you to take immediate steps towards implementing a consistent and protective legal framework by advocating for standardized marriage age laws across the nation.

Thank you for considering this urgent matter. I strongly believe that uniform marriage age laws are essential to safeguarding the rights and safety of young individuals and preventing potential harm.

Together, we can say NO to child marriage and child exploitation!

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[familylawyerstoronto]

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[wattsandroot]

Me when i see an Actor i know from one american show on another american show:

Me when i see an actor i know from a Canadian show on another Canadian show: