Ruth Chung: How to Hold Your Own in Family Court

The instinct, when you are self-represented and your ex is lying about you, is to make the judge see it. Ruth Chung says that is the wrong target. Family court runs on what you can prove and how credible you seem, not on whose account of reality is correct. Ruth Chung is a matrimonial and family law attorney in New York City. Before law school she earned a bachelor's and master's in forensic psychology and spent years bartending in Manhattan, a combination she credits for the read-the-room in...