Raiford Palmer: Divorce Strategy and the "Meta Case"

In a high-conflict divorce, the facts and the law are only part of what a judge weighs. Raiford Palmer calls the rest of it the meta case: how you, your ex, and the lawyers behave toward each other over the life of a case, and how that shapes a judge's read of you when a decision is close. Managing it is its own strategy. Raiford Palmer has been a lawyer since 1994 and a divorce attorney for more than twenty years. He is the managing shareholder of STG Divorce Law in Chicago, where his firm h...