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the scene - then it is indeed a tough decision. Make it carefully. Anyone who tells you that it's a piece of cake, or that it's "always" best to hire a lawyer "no matter what" - basically if the advice or comment seems too simple or vague - it is. It's garbage.

The plain truth - and one I am still very pained to acknowledge - is that you have to be "hard". You cannot expect shiny, happy people. You cannot expect anything you learned in Kindergarten to get you through this. It's hard. It's fast. It's insensitive. It does NOT care about you.

You must do everything you can to take care of yourself. This is not the time to fudge or kick back. Do your homework. Call who you need to call. If you hire a lawyer - you make sure s/he is in touch with you AT LEAST daily. Whether you're defending yourself, or you're thinking of or have in fact hired a lawyer - the work needs to be done, and you have to tell folks what you want. In order to do that with any authority, you need to know your rights. If you do not - and the stakes are that high - again, get the legal counsel and cross that financial bridge when you get to it.

The bottom line is that justice is expensive. Justice is work. Justice is NOT a guarantee - in America or anywhere else. If you get anything out of this article, remember that.

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