It’s a sin that lawyers can charge as much as they do for things. At the same time, I can definitely understand why people use them rather than trying to do stuff on their own.
On Friday we got mail from the county courts. We opened the envelope and found what looked like some of the paperwork we had submitted, but there was nothing else with it. There followed this internal dialogue:
“What’s this? Did we do something wrong?”
“Well, I don’t see anything saying something was missing…”
“Then why did they send us these papers back?”
“Um, I haven’t a clue.”
Note: The above was all in my head. I found out that Joel had a similar internal conversation when he looked at them. Joel, observant man that he is, finally discovered that these were photocopies and they included some extra signatures, one of the clerk of the court and one of a judge. Um… ok. So, the judge signed the things. Um. What does that mean?
We made up our minds eventually that this was just our copies of what they had sent on to the state system and our social worker. I guess. I’m going to go law hunting again today to try to verify that.
But they didn’t ask for any extra paperwork! That’s a good sign! Isn’t it?