22 Nov
When you have brought up kids, there are memories you store directly in your tear ducts. .. Robert Brault
I’ve debated how to write this post for several days, and it’s been difficult. My role as attorney at law is to uphold the law. Most of the time, that also means to pursue justice. Sometimes these [...]
8 Aug
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 [...]
13 Jun
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
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
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
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
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
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 [...]
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