A New Jersey Domestic Violence Restraining Order is not really family-law issue and its not really a criminal-defense issue. Instead, its a 50/50 hybrid of the two. Thus, in my opinion, if you only have an attorney that handles one of those areas of the law, you only have half an attorney. Quite often, restraining orders in New Jersey are accompanied by both a criminal complaint as well as a divorce complaint or some other family court action. The restraining order case will almost always be heard first. The right moves in that case will likely impact the other cases.
When you are searching for a divorce lawyer, you are interviewing for a job opening. You will be hiring that free consult lawyers near me – he / she will be working for you. So you have every right to ‘interrogate’ the lawyer (think of it as a job interview) before you actually hire him / her. During that interview, find out about the lawyer’s years of practice, area of expertise, records of win, hourly rate and such.
Another option is to open your phone book and use it to find the attorney you need. There are going to be plenty of them listed that will take a personal injury type of case, but you still will not know how good they are or what you are getting yourself into. There are not reviews and very little information about each attorney in the phone book. You will be lucky to find more than a name and a phone number for some of the lawyers that are listed.
The bad attorney hides behind legal excuses. Privacy, confidentiality and all that jazz is a setup to get you away from their previous clients. Steer clear of attorneys who don’t want you within a mile of their previous clients, especially since they know they seriously botched the case up.
abogado She could have asked the lawyer what strategy he planned to use to defend her and how he planned to take her case on the offensive. She could have asked the lawyer how he planned to keep her abreast of developments and progress in her case and how long he estimated it would take to get to final hearing in the case. She could have asked him how he planned to enforce the spousal support order and what could be done to collect the money.
Your attorney and his or her staff are now acting as both a «collection facility», gathering records and bills from medical care providers, and continuing as a shield, keeping the insurance company representatives away from you. I often have clients call me and ask me «how’s my case going»? If case liability is not an issue, that is, if it’s clear that the collision was «the other guy’s» fault, and his/her insurance company has «accepted» responsibility, then my answer to the question is simply «fine, how are you feeling?» I say this because at that point, assuming we’ve «secured» the liability issue, all that remains is waiting for the client to get better.
