by BeWitched on Fri Oct 03, 2008 3:32 pm
Legal Aid is just another entry point to draw people into the game - Yes game of sucking every last drop of finances and blood out of your life, your children and family's finances.
Once you are caught in the battle, especially longer than 6 months, most people should attest to the fact it's very hard to get out and recover into some new life for possibly 10+ years or more, with little cash, low self esteem, maybe emotion and psychological damage and disheartened with life. It's not a pretty path I would recommend for anyone.
If there was no illegal aid half the people wouldn't have lawyers, and go to court on their own, or not go at all.
Ordinary people going to court on their own would still get burnt as there will always be power imbalances, but still it would be more of contest between the couple. It's still not the right approach tho.
The best solution is for people not to go to court at all !!!! - which would result in an informal meeting with the ex and some government case worker( or non paid mediator) who keeps working with you both until all matters get solved. Which in most cases depending the ages of children might be an ongoing thing for a few years until emotions settle down.
How are those r'ship centres going? Anyone got the latest goss?
Heard you get 3 free visits and then you have to pay?
I think we need a campaign to get Lawyers, Legal Aid and the Family Court (as it is now) out of peoples lives.
We then put forward the Family Court buildings get turned into big mediation complexes where fiery couples go multiple times working through and settling the issues. If they cant do it on their own of course.
Either that or they get demolished - or it gets sold for $40+ million and for everyone who has been fucked over in that court, to get a an equal share of the dividends.. Sounds good to me...
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