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Listen for Good Attorneys in Court Tip #80

Spend the first hour in the court room hallway, second and third hours in the actual court room, and finally an hour by the attorney/client conference meeting area.
1) Start in the morning with the hallway outside the court room. You will witness clients and attorneys looking for each other. Watch carefully the interactions attorneys have with their clients, other attorneys and maybe even judges. Do they seem cordial to their clients? Are they talking and meeting with other attorneys? Do they seem well known and comfortable in this courthouse? Are they discussing and directing clients and witnesses? Do other people seem to know the attorney?

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Showtime Begins & Ends in Court from Your Car Tip #308

Judges, opposing counsels, witnesses, are parking cars next to yours, walking in behind you and either getting the doors held for them by you—or else closed in their faces. During my trial, I saw dads and other people going to court who were losing their cool in the parking garage—cussing, cutting up, saying negative things about their spouses—while judges and jury members were still watching them. Folks, your trial is not going on inside a vacuum. It is therefore up to you to keep your act clean both in and out of the courtroom.

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Your Kids Need Their Own Room at Your Place Tip #7

The kids’ stuff shouldn’t be able to fit easily into a backpack, or even into a nice set of luggage. Their room needs to be decorated, pictures on the wall, games and books, stuff to do; it needs to look like a room your kids live in permanently, not just a place they kill some time before returning to their real home, not just four walls with a bed in it.

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Buy or Clean a Coat & Tie Suit Prior to Court. Tip #295

Every time you walk into court, whether you’re coming in to drop off a piece of paper, make a child support payment, or even if it was just the closest bathroom on your way to somewhere else, you need to be dressed to the hilt.

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Get a School/PTA Volunteer Job. Tip #141

You have heard it said time and time again, fathers that are involved in their children’s school make a positive impact on their kids’ grades, behavior, and overall attitude towards education and learning.

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In Letters to Ex: Be Formal, Polite, & Brief. Tip #248

Co-parenting is hard. Take the high road and keep the other parent informed and write her a short, brief, letter about your precious children. After you written it, sleep on it and re-read it in the morning. Make sure it’s all about the children, after all that’s what matters.

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