When the Truth Emerges: 36 Lawyers Shocked as Their Clients Unveil Jaw-Dropping Confessions

Special education case. Mother and school were fighting about services. We got new assessments that backed up the mother’s claims. Local school didn’t have the right services, so we arranged a transfer to a larger school not too far away. Good public transit route, some extra-curriculars kid was excited about.

She goes to enroll him in school, says they have a problem with paperwork.

Thinking the transfer info just didn’t get there yet, I take a copy and head down there.

No, they wont enroll him because

* not his legal name
* she is not his legal mom

Turns out, she was the bff of a mother who was pregnant and about to be incarcerated for d**g trafficking. BFF says, ‘can you take my baby while I’m in jail, I’ll get him as soon as I’m out.’ She and husband say sure. They sign a piece of notebook paper.

12 years later. smh

You have to think, how did they manage to navigate school and medical stuff for 12 years with no legal custody paperwork? They’d just been using an assumed last name of the pseudo- adoptive couple and, like me, no one had asked. Was only that the school had moved to an online system that checked SS#s against other databases that it was caught.

Anyway, bio mom and dad were still alive and still in a lot of trouble. They consented to the couple that raised him adopting.

Kid missed a week of school while I convinced them that he fit under a homeless youth school stability statute.

Edit: yes, it was the couple that had raised him those 12 years that adopted him.

s-multicellular , freepik Report

As a solicitor, one of the most annoying things I’ve had happen was, after an hour-long consultation with an older couple about changing the husband’s will, the wife hands me a letter from his doctor which says the husband has dementia and does not have capacity to sign medical documents.

Like, you didn’t think that was a good place to start?

kitskill , Drazen Zigic Report

Client comes to me, with his new, wife, complaining that he’s been sued by his ex-wife for failing to pay a $5000 judgment to the ex as part of the divorce decree. Judge orders us to mediation.
During mediation, ex-wife won’t budge that she wants the full $5k. Client claims he doesn’t have the ability to pay it. New wife, in an effort to get her loving husband free from the clutches of his evil ex, offers to give up her large diamond wedding ring to the evil ex. Ex can keep it, sell, it, whatever, but Client had previously told new wife it was worth more than $5k, so it should be enough.
Ex-wife agrees to accept new wife’s ring, subject to an appraisal. Maybe you can see where this is going…
Get a call 2 weeks later from opposing counsel, deal is off. “Why?” I ask.
Turns out the ring was a CZ, worth about $95.
When client met with me and I showed him the appraisal, he said, “Yeah, I knew that was going to happen.”
I stared at him slack-jawed and said, “You knew?”
“Oh yeah, but what was I supposed to do, tell my wife I got her a fake ring?”

“How about telling her, ‘no my love, I gave you that ring, and it is a symbol of my love for you, and that horrible b***h will get it over my dead body. I’ll find another way to pay her,’” I said.

He looked at me and says, “Yeah that would probably have worked.”.

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