What if you were asked to enter into a business deal with another person on the condition that you agree to terms and agreements you have never seen, negotiated nor discussed. Yet many people marry without a prenuptial agreement. And each assumes the other is a mind reader and assumes they agree to certain unwritten […]
We lawyers have an inside joke: “Criminal lawyers see bad people on their best behavior. Divorce lawyers see good people on their worst behavior.” Many divorce clients say to me “I’ve never been through this before. I don’t know what to do.” I assure them I have been through it many times. I will be their […]
People ask if I find divorce work depressing. Actually, I find divorce cases extremely interesting. I see them as jigsaw puzzles where the pieces must fit together perfectly to satisfy the husband, wife, children, opposing counsel, judge, and in some newsworthy cases, the press. Each new case makes my heart race as I gather and […]
If the other side is offering 85% of what you want, take it. One thing we’ve learned after years of trying cases is that the ball takes funny bounces. There is no such thing as a slam dunk case. We’ve won cases we should have lost and lost cases we should have won. There is […]
My client asks me to explain to the other side how he came up with that offer of alimony, taxes, or property division. We think that if we talk and talk and talk, the other side will eventually get it. IF only we can explain it to them, they will slap their palm to their […]
Kathy, a divorce client in Maryland, writes, “I just got a settlement from a car accident I had in 2020. It’s all non-marital isn’t it because it was for my personal injury?” My Response Kathy, I’m afraid not. In Dearing v. Dearing, 292 Md. 115 (1981), the Maryland Court of Appeals (now Supremember Court of […]
The English language adopted it to mean deadlock, draw, stalemate, or dead end. Imagine what happens when an irresistible force, say Superman, meets an immovable object, like the Incredible Hulk. Impasse means a situation of no progress. It is a standstill where the parties involved can’t reach an agreement or find a way forward. Impasse in Divorce […]
First we showed you how to think like a lawyer and put the purpose of your correspondence in the first sentence. Then we gave you an example of how to do it. Now we are moving into the substance of the letter We told you how to use transition words and phrases to make your […]
In order to tell a story, you have to string your paragraphs together like pearls on a necklace. The thread that holds them together is made up of transition phrases. Here are some examples: As a result Thereafter Therefor In consideration of the foregoing Notwithstanding the foregoing As you can see from what I said […]
Firstly, we showed you how to think like a lawyer. Then we gave you the magic first sentence to make clear to you and the reader the purpose of your correspondence. Then we gave you an example of how to do it. Now let’s talk about the content of the letter. I’ve written books, newsletters, […]
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