[Emmett McCarthy]

One of the things my extremely crazy ex has done - after 15 years - is ask for a “paternity test”. I think it may be because she has tried to convince my daughter that is she refuses to go live with her that she’ll be placed in the state’s foster care system. I think this will just help convince these agency staff people that she’s nucking futs. I sent them notice that the request/order was “arbitrary and capricious”.

[TKDietz]

A paternity test after fifteen years and the child support agency is going along with that? That's surprising. Oh well, I'm glad I never personally had to go through any of that kind of craziness and I'm glad I gave up family law cases a long time ago. You know about the only time I've felt the need to be armed as an attorney is back when I'd do divorces and custody battles. People lose their minds going through those things. I've handled thousands of criminal cases, representing people accused of doing all sorts of horrible things, and I can only think of one that really scared me. After the final hearing the judge actually ordered him to stay away from me, his lawyer, not write me, call me or anything. He was the genius psycho type that would fixate on people and make little shrines to them and stalk them and so on. He fixated on me and made a lot of threats even when I was representing him but so many other lawyers had withdrawn from his case the judge wouldn't let me out. I never would have taken the case in the first place had I not have been appointed to represent this nut. Thankfully he moved out to California with all the other crazies and I haven't heard from him in years.