Top Divorce Lawyer Blues
Top Divorce Lawyer Blues
For those people who didn’t choose the right divorce lawyer, they will be stuck with the divorce lawyer blues.
- You got up early and got the kids dressed and ready for school only for your lawyer to be late to your first appointment.
- You tell your lawyer that the other parent is always late picking up the children from school late they tell you “that’s not relevant” and look at their watch. They start telling war stories. You look at your watch.
- You ask what is a parenting plan, is a child support order necessary, and how long it takes to get a divorce, and they complain that you’re asking “a lot of questions.”
- When you ask them to call you back, they say, “Remember, I have other important cases.”
- You call your attorney every other day. Only the secretary calls you back but that’s OK because she’s much nicer.
- The lawyer says they promise they will call you back next week, that they will send you the bill tomorrow, but they break all the promises.
- Your lawyer bills you for the meeting. Yet they can’t find the memo for it.
- It’s three days before the hearing and they haven’t called you, then they’re late for the court hearing. The attorney leans over and asks “How many kids do you have again?”
- When you send your lawyer copies of texts from your ex and your children’s transcripts there aren’t any prepared exhibits because “family cases don’t really use the rules of evidence.” At the hearing, they don’t ask much. Then your ex’s attorney cross-examines you to death. You lose the hearing, but they take you to lunch. Next month, they charge you for lunch.
- They also charge you for the memo they never found. You consider moving to Brazil.
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Lisa Derr
Lisa Derr is an experienced Divorce and Family Mediator with three offices in east central Wisconsin. She started the family mediation practice in 1995. Lisa earned her BA in psychology from the University of Wisconsin in 1984 in four years despite a serious car accident that involved a 2-month hospital stay. She began practicing law in 1987. For the first 8 years of her career, Lisa litigated personal injury and divorce cases. But she was frustrated with the tremendous financial and emotional cost of divorce trials. Contested hearings inhibited reconciliation and healing for thewhole family. She started the Beaver Dam divorce mediation practice in 1995 and with her partner, Cassel Villarreal, expanded to Oshkosh and West Bend ten years later.