[Magdalen] your ongoing prayers, please

[Lynn Ronkainen]

In the USA each state can vary GREATLY in how it handles divorce... TX is a 
50/50 state and initially the two parties contact each other through their 
attorneys unless they have decided upon the decision to divorce on their 
own.  There is not much 'dickering' on the 50/50  if one goes to court here 
or if there are attorney's involved. Until 15 years ago there was no alimony 
in TX, and now it is only in the case of underage children, if at all. 
California for instance (12 year old info), mandated an alimony payment 
based  on a % of the income from the larger salaried partner to the smaller 
salaried partner for a period of years equal to one half the amount of the 
length of the union.

In the last 20 years, having known a number of friends divorcing, I've never 
even heard of the 'percentage' approach to charging. Perhaps that is 
reserved for the more wealthy among us.

I would imagine that Marion may have ended up reading 'the papers' is so she 
can see what she is up against, either because it might be the law to 
provide them to her, or her attorney felt it important for her to read them. 
I certainly would want to read them for myself, if it pertained to me.

Lynn

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From: "Jim Guthrie" <jguthrie at pipeline.com>
Sent: Wednesday, October 08, 2014 8:40 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] your ongoing prayers, please

> From: Roland Orr
>
>>This is how US lawyers make money? and why there are so many of them ?
>>Who pays all the legal costs ?
>
> Not necessarily. Some cases involve hourly rates, some are flat rate, some 
> involve a percentage of the judgment.
>
> In the U.S., if this involves a substantial amount of money, Marion would 
> find a lawyer who'd take it for a percentage -- maybe 30% or so.
>
> Don’t know about how these things get charged in Canada, but Marion 
> receiving these papers directly leads me to believe she does not have a 
> good lawyer.
>
> Jim Guthrie