Today Shayla decided to have me go to court with her. We were going for a hearing over the dispute for child support. The opposing party wanted to lower their child support and for the past few weeks they had not been paying their full child support but only about half. Our client felt this was unfair and that the opposing client's income had increased since the time the first child support was set so why would he get to pay less now? This case seemed like it was going to be pretty quick and straight forward. After we checked into the first judge, he sent us to the next courtroom. We waited for forever until we couldenter the coutroom. As we were waiting the power went out in the entire building! All the lights, computer systems, recording systems, etc. were down. We were a little annoyed with this because we were just ready to present our case. Eventually the officers did call us in to go ahead and begin with a personal recorder in the room. There were only a few safety lights that remained on and it seemed extremely quiet. The case did not turn out in our favor completely which shocked us all but what the judge says goes. I felt good being there and I tried to imagine what kind of questions I would ask the people at the witness stand and how i would phrase my questions so I sounded confident. Overall this case was a great learing experience for family law.
On a side note, today I am working on another demand letter which I feel pretty comfortable with since I just recently did one. This one is about a medical malpractice. Besides creating the demand letter, Shayla also wants me to go through all the medical records and define any tricky medical terms. I could use some of the other interns' help on this because I'm sure they are really familiar with many of these terms that I've never heard of. Overall, this week has been productive.
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