Signs You Hired The Wrong Divorce Attorney | Susan Pease Gadoua
Finding a divorce attorney is easy. Finding the right attorney is the trick. If you look in your local Yellow Pages, you will see that attorneys can have many types of specializations and there’s often no shortage of them. When most people are about to embark on a divorce and need to find a legal professional, they call their neighbor, cousin, sister, or best friend and ask for their attorney’s name and number. This is the WORST thing you can do, (unless you don’t mind gambling with your life!). The place to start is to spend some time researching the various ways you can get divorced, decide which model is best for you, and then find an attorney who practices the model you choose. There is self-representation, mediation, collaboration, and litigation. If you begin by looking for the attorney first, you will end up with the modality your attorney practices, and it’s possible that isn’t right for your case. You can still ask others who they hired and if they were happy with their choice, …