There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst. ~George Bernard Shaw
This month I’ve got a whole run of cases where a parent’s rights may be involuntarily terminated. The purpose of the termination is to free [...]
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8 Aug
When a parent’s not a parent
13 Jun
Can a story make a difference?
This week my second Cup of Comfort story came out in the book A Cup of Comfort for the Adoptive Family. In the story, I share the reason I finally went ahead and adopted the Cabana Boy’s three small children, knowing then that they had lifetime issues.
Reading through some of the other stories in the [...]
15 Mar
Tag–you’re it!
Every once in awhile, when I’m examining this blog, to see what I have to offer, to determine what else I could add to make the site more useful, I read over my tag cloud.
I know that WordPress assigns the size of the words depending on how often you use the tags. So clearly autism [...]
19 Jan
Quitting while you’re ahead
When we first start to practice law, many attorneys dabble in several areas to see what field we’d like to pursue. At law school, I focused on employment law–unions, at-will, even interned at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in Miami. But for one reason and another, I didn’t get a job in that field, so [...]
7 Dec
(Broken) Home for the holidays
A phenomenon many divorce attorneys encounter each year between mid-November and January 2 is the sudden drop-off of clients and client activity. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, it’s the holiday lull, the last-ditch effort to grasp the fast-fading warm feeling of family or at least the rational attempt to try to preserve the illusion that ‘everything [...]
2 Oct
Don’t shoot the piano player–or the lawyer
We’ve made the decision to move my legal office back into the house. I had it there for several years, when I was a single mom with older daughters at home. Then I got married, had toddlers in the house, and went to work for Legal Services to get benefits, so I closed it.
But looking [...]
19 Jun
Mea culpa, mea culpa!
Okay, I’m sure it is my fault I have children with special needs, and I deserve to be punished for it–more importantly, they apparently deserve to be punished for it.
We did get approved for our therapeutic summer program, with 30 hours of TSS/mobile therapy each for Captain Oblivious and Little Miss, so they could attend [...]
21 May
Welcome to the real world
It was all the talk in motions court this morning.
Yesterday was spent waiting for the police to come to my office following a massive series of break-ins in our office building.
I’d known something was up when my secretary called to tell me they wouldn’t let her in the building on her arrival, but I [...]
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