Let me prefface this blog. The secretary of the second lawyer said that custody is like the lottery. She said that she has read some awful cases that made no sense, where the parent who was proven a bad parent got more custody. Is it mostly about money?
I had hired a few different lawyers. The first was a woman lawyer. While in her office she allowed herself to be interrupted several times on my hard earned dollar. I was so emotional about the situation that I did not speak up about that fact. I was hoping she could help me and my daughter. I later found out that she spoke a few times to the conciliator about my case, which was pretty undermining to say the least. She did nothing to represent my best interest or the interest of my child.
I hired a different attorney, one who I went to school with. He listened, told me which counselor we should go to, then said he did not believe me about the alienation. He did not believe that a child can be turned from a parent. Did not believe that it hurts a child they are told they do not have to have a parent in their life, that they can choose, did not believe that the child can be sent covert and overt messages by a parent that damages their bond with their other parent , did not believe that his colleague ( the counselor/evaluator ) he sent us too was biased and horribly disliked in the community in which she lived. But then this lawyer became a parent coordinator, charging a whopping $175 per hour. Interesting!
The third attorney I hired was a real estate attorney that had more sense about him than the other two. He did not drink from their coffee pots or pee in their toilets. I had moves in the same district as the father so he and I were questioning my daughter changing schools, but it was up to the conciliator. She ordered that she change schools so she can make friends in the area. On a side note, the father and stepmother and their family members told my daughter I made her change schools so she would be mad with me. Typical.
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