{"id":511,"date":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/index.php\/2016\/05\/23\/pro-se-litigation-attitude-is-important\/"},"modified":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-23T00:00:00","slug":"pro-se-litigation-attitude-is-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/pro-se-litigation-attitude-is-important\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro Se Litigation &#8211; Attitude is Important"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if you can&#8217;t afford an attorney and have to represent yourself (&#8220;pro se&#8221;)? Are you completely out of luck?<\/p>\n<p>Odds are, you&#8217;re not alone. A quick Google search for &#8220;statistics pro se divorces&#8221; shows staggering rates of pro se representation in divorce and other family law cases, often more than 50% in many jurisdictions. The good news is, given the age we live in, there are many more resources available to pro se litigants than there used to be.<\/p>\n<p>Cliched though it may sound, the one indispensable thing you have to have is a positive attitude. If you believe you can effectively present your case, you can learn to do so. Keep in mind, in all likelihood your case will end in a settlement, either at the mediation table or otherwise &#8211; not at trial. If your spouse has a lawyer and you do not, in the courtroom you are at a disadvantage, but outside the courtroom you are on more level footing with your spouse than you think.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What if you can&#8217;t afford an attorney and have to represent yourself (&#8220;pro se&#8221;)? Are you completely out of luck?&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dunhamlegalgroup.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}