Legal Question in Family Law in California

Re: attorney/client

Your attorney's file on your case is your file. You are entitled to it. I don't know of any attorney that as a matter of practice copies a client on every paper, I have never had a client who wouldn't complain about how much I am billing them to make copies of everything and mail it to them. I copy my client on all court filings I do or another party to the lawsuit does, I copy them on all correspondence received via mail and fax and most emails, that is, I copy them on substantive items. There are many pieces of paper and electronic items that have to do with "housekeeping," for example notes, process server/court filing instruction sheets, and so on, and I don't copy a client on those, but they are free to see them, have them if they want.