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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33450)	4/20/2008 3:51:50 AM
From: TobagoJack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

i think you are correct about the switch coconut is starting to fix her hair when wind blown, like after an energetic bike ride slowly slowly

To: Maurice Winn who wrote (33450)	4/20/2008 11:22:26 AM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 217764

I was talking about law with a client and his wife Thursday, wondering out loud why lawyers get paid more than engineers (not always but often). Well, actually he started it, I was talking about what it would cost him if his ex-wife decided to appeal our win, and what it would cost his ex-wife, and whether we should talk about settlement, etc. He was expressing frustration that lawyers have all this knowledge in their heads but you can't get it out of them without paying them first. Then I realized what I am paid for. Someone approaches me with a problem, and they don't have a blueprint or a drawing or a schematic of any kind, but they need me to solve it. Anybody can draw up a deed, it's true, given the old deed and the names of the new parties, you just substitute the new names, the new dates, and so forth. But that doesn't mean that you know when to use a quit-claim deed, a general warranty deed, a special warranty deed, a deed of trust, or what kind of title search to order first, nor does it mean that you know whether the old deed was proper in form to begin with. Nor does it mean that you know whether other parties need to sign other instruments due to inchoate interests like dower and curtesy. Nor does it mean that you understand how to properly draft the mortgage documents and properly fund the new mortgage and pay off the old mortgage and all the other encumbrances in order to convey quiet title. Also here you need to understand HUD laws and TILA and the Wet Settlement Act and thus, I don't practice in this area, I stick to my own lasts, family law, bankruptcy, and civil litigation. And even that's child's play compared to looking at an old (6 1/2 years) closed divorce case and determining that the parties were never actually properly divorced due to failure to comply with the long-arm statute. I never thought I'd actually hear Pennoyer vs. Neff being cited in open court in my lifetime. Sorry, can't explain it, not as difficult as string theory but far more advanced into legal arcana than, say, algebra. But I did get the child support order vacated and also the order giving the ex-wife the house vacated, due to incompentance of the ex-wife's lawyer. It's not as easy at it looks. But not to say it's any harder than engineering, I am sure it's not. Perhaps lawyers just have a tougher guild. Similar approach to life, though, problem solving is fun.