Much of legal practice and the law in general is an illusion. It is a multi-part entity where the input may have no relation to the output. Here,...

We here really cannot step in and offer opinions as to what is happening between a lawyer and his client. We cannot see the retainer agreement and...

There are no ethics concerns whatsoever here. Verbal agreements between lawyers and clients do not count as more and more statutes and local rules...

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We do not have a transcript of the interaction between the parent and the son's attorney, so we must guess. In any case, civil or criminal,...

This asker has not realized that his opponent in the matter is the judge who must enforce cockamamie laws and the prosecutor who presents a flaccid...

Saturday service is fine despite drinking, but Sunday service is unacceptable and will not be consdered by the court.

No. A family court case cannot be "reopened." There is no filing fee in a New York family court, so the door is always open for new filings. This...

Social justice legislation always favors the lesser person. Custodial mothers can get support for the asking especially in cases where the father's...

We here cannot provide legal advice as to whether the male asker should or should not contact cops to report his spouse as domestically violent. To...

Far, far too many innocent men and women are jailed in Pennsylvania because of the conveyor belt of conviction in operation there. The accusation...