What Does A Family Court Lawyer Do?
Saturday, February 6th, 2010 at
9:55 am
What does a family court lawyer do? Is there an article online that tells about it? What is the average salary range? What types of people would you generally deal with? How often would you have case, and what kinds of cases? Thanks. And would you get to argue in court?
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Family law is divorce, child custody, Child Protective services cases, and enforcement of child support. That type of thing.
These attorneys are generrally self employed or work for law firms taht handle this type of case. I snow some who charge $700. per hour. The expenses of running an office have to come out of that, and any employees the attorney has need to be paid, so they may not get to keep but a small fraction of the fee.
They may go to court daily, or at least weekly. There are contested hearings on many family law type of matters, so yes you would get to argue in court, and cross examine witnessesses in jury trial. Even if the state does not allow a defense to divorce there can still be a tral over the disposition of the property, or the custody of the children.
What kind of people would you generally deal with? Well, there is a saying among attorneys, “Criminal clients are some of the worst people in the community, but they are on their best behavior when dealing with their attorney, and family law clients are some of the best people in the community, but they are on their worst behavior when dealing with their attorney in their case.”
I prefer the ones on their best behavior. It is never any fun to have to deal with a person who is angry, bitter, hateful, petty, and vindictive, even if you are not the subject of their rage.
Good Luck