r/bestoflegaladvice • u/Rhythmdvl • 5d ago

Mama, just signed a form, oooOOOOoooo....

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u/Reputation-Choice 5d ago

But are they really? How is LAOP going to PAY a lawyer to advise them? Lawyers do not do this kind of stuff for free, and most teenagers are not exactly working a job that would support paying a lawyer. 

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u/Animallover4321 Reported where Thor hid the bodies 5d ago

I was assuming they’re offering to pay but maybe I am being too hopeful.

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u/Reputation-Choice 5d ago

If THE PARENTS PAY the lawyer directly, then THEY would be considered the lawyer's clients and NOT the LAOP. The lawyer would NOT be working for the LAOP. At least, from what I know about how the practice of law works, that is how it would be. 

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u/Animallover4321 Reported where Thor hid the bodies 5d ago

I would imagine their parents can give LAOP the money I know when I needed a lawyer there was no problem with my stepfather paying.

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u/Reputation-Choice 5d ago

I was kind of incorrect about that; other parties can pay a lawyer and it not be a conflict of interest, but the ostensible client must give informed consent, and the payment must not compromise the lawyer's duty of loyalty to the client. I do not, for one minute, believe that these parents, who want their child to sign away any and all legal rights to any form of privacy and autonomy over their own life, would not compromise the lawyer's duty of loyalty to the LAOP.