What are the chances that Kayla is the "fall guy" in all of this and Nick has been gaslighting her (as a lawyer) and controlling everything she sees? we know he's secretly working for her in some capacity because of identical filings (including identical mistakes) and considering her pilled up mental state it wouldn't be too difficult to keep her in the dark.
It almost doesn't matter. Sure Nick is a fucking snake who can only be trusted to snake on people, but he's also delusional and incompetent enough he could think he has a surefire plan to win that will just fuck them both over.
Her hiring is more than a little odd. I expected seperate representation in the criminal case for obvious conflict of interest reasons, but I wasn't expecting it in the family law case. She also seems like the total opposite of that guy Nick hired. She really doesn't seem like a "Nick" sort of choice either.
I hope she gives competent advice and is a full service lawyer, that is, tells her that she ain't getting those kids back with Balldo Man and his magic pixie dust around.
Imagine being a family law attorney. How would you be limiting yourself if you had a specialty in divorce without child custody?
In a small town in Minnesota? To maybe a case or two a year. You only see microscopically small specialties like that in boutique firms in big cities or in the kind of firms that take up an entire floor in a skyscraper. The kind of firms millionaires hire where they'd hire the firm to handle a divorce and get a team of half a dozen lawyers to sue the celebrity/CEO/whatever spouse. Most people simply do not have the money to hire multiple lawyers with each one specializing in a tiny part of the case.
It's only flimsy evidence because thus far Kayla has proven unable to be a competent person. Most other people would see the shit Nick does and says about his wife and divorce him.
Most people would have divorced the fucking freak without even the cocaine and child abuse. Just "hey do you want to get into cucking and swinging" would have been the limit for someone who wasn't a doormat. So although I hope her lawyer can tard wrangle her, I'm not terribly optimistic. Unless that shit actually was her idea. It's hard to mind read them. They may just be a match made in Hell.
It is interesting to have separate legal representation in the family case but not in the criminal where the arraignment judge flagged it as a potentially non-waivable conflict of interest.
I was watching when the judge said that. I'm pretty sure Nick will try to do it because the judge said it in a really faggy way.
I don't buy into divorce speculation, but everything about the hiring seems a bit odd. But no more odd than Nick's strange choice of attorney. The rushed hiring of this attorney at such a late stage in the process is also strange.
Don't expect normal behavior from a couple brain-charred druggie burnouts.
tbf a two bedroom one bath home is a barbie dream mansion in LA
No, it's just as much of a shitshack as it is anywhere else. It isn't even in one of the less shitty parts of LA. It just costs as much as a dream mansion in a less melanated location.
Fucking unbelievable. You are facing losing your children and you hire someone with 4 years of actual experience? I haven't looked at her yet, but if what @Strix454 saw is correct, my analysis is: cheap. Or just inexperienced enough to make promises she shouldn't. Or perceived as malleable.
Or it's a recommendation from someone she did good work for. It's a small town. Word of mouth is everything. That's incidentally why Nick is permafucked ever to practice anywhere in his local area.
In 20+ years here, nearly all intentional deaths are the occasional teen suicide (there were 3-5 in my kids' school years, iirc) - with the exception of a well-off dad deciding that that was the day to annihilate the whole family, 3 or 4 kids included.
Even if Nick shows some of those dark traits that Chris Watts kind of person has, most people who do don't actually go there, and as excellent as CPS is at fucking over the lives of well intentioned but dumb people for trivial mistakes, they're absolutely pathetic at stopping things like family annihilators.
The perky A cups are fine, it's the homewrecking coke slut part that's the deal-breaker.
He was aping Ken White (Popehat). Him going with that was actually an insult to White, who was opposed to Vic's lawsuit. White is a more accomplished and knowledgeable attorney though.
White wasn't even particularly anti-Vic, he's just a free speech extremist and in general does not like defamation law at all. Nick was being a pissy little bitch about him. There were a couple Law Twits like that who didn't go out of their way to misrepresent the case but simply took a contrary position without particularly caring about Vic himself. Dunford was one of those, and I'll note that when Nick's defamation case came up, he took Nick's side despite having a marked dislike for him. A couple of those people were just First Amendment fanatics.
It's still cringy as fuck for a dude who fucks up his own traffic ticket cases because he's too high on cocaine to bother to style himself a "Pope" of anything, even ironically.
She doesn't seem unqualified to me and looking from the outside I would definitely retain her over Frank the Barneswalker. It's not particularly a close call either.
Frankly I'd rather have a bright young lawyer with a couple years of practice than some jagoff who has been a bumbling dipshit for 30 years.
The gun charges are a thing they can threaten but you'll never know how it might play out in a trial. The rural areas are more lax on some gun stuff (since he also stored improperly, a state charge they could bring) but the drug + gun charge will hammer him in the eyes of the locals most likely.
I live somewhere with high gun ownership and there is a strong culture of responsibility associated with guns. Even gun owners genuinely despise the kind of people like Nick who justify encroachment on their rights. Even pro-gun people other than puffed up popinjays like Barnes will not look kindly on Nick's shitty gun hygiene.
looking at a woman through her bedroom window and repeatedly getting angry that the woman's reading a book instead of undoing her bra seductively like they've pre-created in their heads.
