No unbundled legal services? and yet lawyer after lawyer says " get a lawyer to help you draft paperwork."

A case is not a sequence of steps. The practice of law is an art, not a science. The canvas is the courtroom and the paint is the attorney's...

How to protect our right as a parents against my child's grandparent in New York?

New York has no way other than an order of protection to keep a family member away. From your facts, there are very slim allegations. Family Court...

Child support order .. paragraph clarification

We hope you avoided disaster in child support court. I fully understand that the vast majority of family court litigants do not want to hire an...

Can I ask a judge to ask a respondent for proof of a current psychiatric evaluation of a family member ?

Judges are not universal information producers. You cannot use a judge to obtain anything from a person undergoing a family court proceeding. Even...

How to use the ground of irretrievable breakdown in relationship, if spouse is refusing to divorce?

You use the ground by simply filing for divorce after your marriage irretrievably broke down for six months. The opponent's only defense is the six...

Grandparent applying for legal custody?

The scenario described here does not appear to establish a job for a lawyer to do. Lawyers do not confirm sobriety and do not check on a parent....

Lawyers are really not supposed to know about the inner workings of the support collections apparatus. Our role is to help the court gin up an...

There is NO lawyer who will answer paper help. I MUST do it on own. help just telling me wording?

New York does not have "unbundled" legal services which means you cannot get a portion of some fraction of your case serviced by a lawyer. Instead,...

We would need to see the lawyer's retainer agreement if he had one with you, and we need the amounts paid and hours worked. Today's arbitration...

It is not clear what the asker means by going "over her head," and there is very little information here to go on. Typically, lawyers do not have...