As much as We The People like to take swipes at our elected representatives, they actually did something very nice, pertaining to divorce, a few years ago, and I’m continually surprised by how pleasantly surprised so many family-law attorneys are when they learn about it. It’s like a little gift from above.

I recently worked on a case for a client of mine (a woman facing divorce), and the opposing counsel did everything they could to belittle me and make me look incompetent. Guess what happened after the case closed? That same attorney reached out to me, to help them on a new case of theirs. I laughed. I was flattered. In this article, I’d like to take down some poorly-rooted assumptions about what I do.

As a family-law attorney, I know you like to get a sense of closure when you wrap up a divorce case. Once you get the decree, you’re ready, mentally, to move on to other cases.