Legal Question in Family Law in Massachusetts
need divorce lawyer
need to find a very good and inexpensive dovorce lawyer with child custoy. the ex is very controlling and know how to manipulate the law for her benefit. What is your opinion of the Gurdain Ad Litem? are they effective and how weigh a judge puts on their report. Do the judges adhere to waht they report or do the judges use it as recommendation. does a man vs a woman lawyer matters in child custody. This case is in cambrisge, MA. The ex is kind of out of space meaning her way or no ther way. she thinks only working and having a title and making money is everything there is to child caring. She is very selfish and arrogant. She keeps huting me and our daughter.we have joint custody but she is alwyas tring to manipulate the divorce agreement. aho wto go about it. How to find a good lawyer. My previoua lawyer was a disaster. He just did not talk in front of the judge. His big mouth was always shut. I had not seen a lawyer to be this quiet and not defend the client. Please repsond ASAP.
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Re: need divorce lawyer
You can call the state bar referral service, the Middlesex County Bar referral service, both of which should be in your telephone book under lawyer referral. Inexpensive in the context you're describing is not going to be easy. Tell the person who answers that you have a real adversarial relationship with your wife. You may want a woman lawyer.
Guardian ad litems are all different, and I have no experience with GALs in Middlesex. Some are fair and some are biased, and a few are just strange. The judges usually accord great weight to their reports and recommendations, but your lawyer can cross-examine the GAL if the report is not fair to you.
Since you don't say how old your daughter is, I can't really say whether your ex has an advantage. Obviously, the older the child, the less the gender of the custodial parent matters. It also depends on whether you have renarried or have female relatives that can help deal with teenage or other girl issues.
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