Tracey Beecher

Ed completely forgot about appearing for his no insurance, speeding and expired registration ticket he received three months ago. He was not worried about the ticket despite the advertisements he received in the mail from law offices telling him of his warrants. He discussed his situation with his friends and family. Their responses varied. His friend Steve told him to hire an attorney to get rid of the warrants. His older brother Anthony, told him to mail in the court payments and just be...

Paola entered her three bedroom home after working a twelve hour shift at the Community Hospital. She was exhausted but happy to be home. She walked in to find her eighteen year old son Martin waiting for her in the living room. She was surprised to see him up. Usually after he worked the late shift at the diner, he would be asleep by the time she got home. She was happy to see him but she noticed his demeanor was different. She greeted him and told him about the persons she encountered in...

Kay finally managed to turn her life around. After years of drug abuse and jail stints, she found her peace with fishing. Fishing allowed her to conquer her demons. She rebuilt her life and is on the cusp of getting her plumbing license. However, her years of drug abuse took its toll on her family. Her husband was killed in a drug deal gone bad while Kay was serving time for a drug possession case. A court gave custody of her twins Leona and Leon to her husband's mother Ruth. Ruth dislikes...

Mary Wells is a health care worker who works the night shift taking care of elderly patients in a nursing home. Mary is also a single mother to a 10 year old son, Mario and a 17 year old daughter, Felicia. After work on Friday night, Mary picks up Mario the next morning from her sister's to get his prescription from the local pharmacy. After getting Mario's prescription, she drives to pick Felicia up from her high school's band practice. Mary exits the parking lot on San Felipe and heads to...

A common problem among newly separated or divorced parents is how to handle seeing each other outside of the courtroom. While a court order may have made decisions on what happens in their day to day lives with their finances, their living arrangements, and/or their interaction with their children the complex emotional underpinnings involved in their separation are often unresolved. Seeing each other outside the courtroom becomes a tinderbox of emotions waiting to erupt. The time-frame where...