People who have worked in family law, what was it like? Is the system truly stacked and onerous against men? Is appealing rulings difficult? Based on your experience, what does the anti-family court crowd get right and get wrong about the family court system?

terraformerz · 2017-06-17T19:19:47+00:00

inb4 "Haven't worked in family law but.."

Entropy-7 · 2017-06-18T16:22:31+00:00

Spent 4 years. It was soul-destroying and I quit. And yes it is stacked against guys. "All things being equal", they won't be equal. Usually the women have a positional advantage and if they are devious the magic words "he scares me" can be used by women far more effectively than men ever could.

Appeals of interim orders are not so difficult but appeals of final orders are expensive.

TheStoryOfABurl · 2017-06-18T04:36:33+00:00

Worked in family law for 2L summer when I was in law school, however I worked on the family defense side, mostly in fighting removal proceedings (Into Foster care, and eventually to Adoption) by ACS in New York City. Family court was garbage in my opinion for other reasons, mainly a tendency to remove children from poor families reflexively, and be less harsh on similar conduct by middle class families, and ignore it from wealthy ones.

I didn't touch any parent vs parent actions, I wanted none that Kramer v. Kramer bullshit. Ended up going to a firm, wanted nothing more to do with that train wreck area of law.

sublimemongrel · 2017-06-18T19:36:37+00:00

I already told you what it was like IME. As to appeals, those are uncommon. I only did one. And yes appeals are more expensive because of the legwork that goes into writing an appellate brief. I can't speak for other law systems, I believe someone like Entropy who worked in Canada saw things a bit differently. IME it wasn't all that crazy unfair or expensive. Yes certain things will favor women disproportionately but the policies it are usually things I agree with.

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