[cake_crumb]

"...the lawyer industry...."

Well said. It is an industry, and it IS evil. I've known of so many cases where a couple split up, and if left to their own devices would probably have gone the no fault route and even maintained some sort of 'friendly' working relationship for the sake of their children who are the only real victims.

As soon as a LAYWER gets involved, expecially when he smells a practically unlimited amound of funds to be gained from dragging the case out for years and years and years, the MISERY compounded by this evil, greedy individual is incalculable. Corrupt, greedy lawyers give all lawyers a bad name.

[friendly]

Post #15: excellent and totally on the mark.

[FirstTomato]

The lawyer industry and the psychological industry are a horror, especially the psych industry.

Family, friends, faith--that is what will make the difference. No lawyers or psychologists.

[FITZ]

It was the fourth time that year he'd tried to choke her, each time sending flowers later to apologize, she said.

In this case, it seems she was going back over and over ---as the advice for daughters goes --"he hits you once, it's his fault, if he hits you twice, it's your fault". I see this guy accused her of abusing him also ---and she may have ---but then he should have already divorced her for that right after it happened.

[headsonpikes]

"Corrupt greedy lawyers" give the other 1% a bad name.

In the present political environment, Police Chiefs have a similar status to the 'nomenclatura' of the old Soviet Union.

All the important tests for suitability for the job are political, both within the praetorian police unions, and within the interest-juggling petty bureaucracies of city government and state departments.

Our ambitious Chief Brame was no doubt in psychic agony over the possible rejection of himself by the Tacoma Establishment.

Socialist systems of hierarchy and reward tend to pervert people in this particular way. Milovan Djilas wrote a number of interesting books outlining the destruction of human values by such a system in his Tito-era Yugoslavia.

Things aren't that different in the Soviet of Washington, apparently.

[Leisler]

The 'Lectric Law Library's Lexicon On
* Barratry, Barrator *

BARRATRY - The practice of instituting groundless judicial proceedings - a crime in a number of jurisdictions.

In old law French barat, baraterie, signifying robbery, deceit, fraud. In modern usage it may be defined as the habitual moving, exciting and maintaining suits and quarrels, either at law or otherwise.

A man cannot be indicted as a common barrator in respect of any number of false and groundless actions brought in his own right, nor for a single act in right of another; for that would not make him a common barrator.

Barratry, in this sense, is different from maintenance and champerty.

An attorney cannot be indicted for this crime merely for maintaining another in a groundless action.

BARRATOR - One who has been guilty of the offence of barratry. BARRATRY - Maritime Law, Crimes. A fraudulent act of the master or mariners, committed contrary to their duty as such, to the prejudice of the owners of the ship.

The act of Congress of April 30, 1790, s.8, punishes with death as piracy, 'any captain or mariner of any ship or other vessel who shall piratically and feloniously run away with such ship or vessel, or any goods or merchandize to the value of fifty dollars; or yield up such ship or vessel to any pirate or if any such seamen shall lay violent hands upon his commander, thereby to binder or prevent his fighting in defence of his ship or goods committed to his trust, or shall make a revolt in the said ship.'
    --b--

[stands2reason]

He threatened her life on more than one occasion---am I to assume you're blaming the LAWYERS for that??