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We know that many people who contact us want (and need) short and simple answers to their questions about how the law affects them in their own particular situation. Unfortunately, ethics rules prohibit us from giving any specific legal advice to persons who have not retained us as retained legal counsel. We need to make sure that we don’t have any conflict of interest with various people who ask our advice. We often receive inquiries from people on opposite sides of the same issue and we need to make sure that we aren’t giving advice to both sides; therefore, we try to make sure that we are certain of the identity of the people to whom we give advice.

If we are not your “retained counsel,” any information you share with us and any advice we give is not confidential and is not protected by the attorney-client privilege. We want to make sure that any advice we give is complete and confidential. Accordingly, our responses are informational only, do not contain legal advice, and do not create an attorney-client relationship.

Finally, although the law sometimes seems “simple,” it is not. Family law is not “black-and-white.” What may seem a simple question involves a patchwork of interlocking questions, answers, and issues.