My Father Mocked Me for Coming to Court Without a Lawyer, But the Judge Opened My File and the Whole Room Went Silent

It meant giving my life to someone else in bullet points and letting them argue it back to me in strategy language. It meant letting another person decide which parts of me were useful to the case and which parts were emotional excess.

This was not a technical problem.

It was not about legal cleverness.

It was about truth. And truth does not need a better continue reading …