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Overcoming the Devastation of Legal Abuse Syndrome

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Wish I had found this book before my pummeling.
For all the folk who have had their eyeballs peeled for them by the legal system as well as those who are about to dive in.
Empowering. A path back to wholeness. Worth its weight in gold.

This book discusses the health implications of litigation and the challenges of representing yourself pro se. Karin Huffer describes how the legal profession and litigation has evolved into an institutionalized abuse of power. She articulates how people who get caught up in the courts experience a loss of trust in the justice system. Litigants loose vital rights and privileges and become helpless and overpowered. Often this is expressed by the court in the form of sanctions or other confiscation of your property. Karin says these takings have to do with powerful organizations, governments, agencies, and/or enforcement officials having the power to take private property purportedly for the purpose of enforcing the law, a regulation, or somehow acting on the line of duty. Karin calls these takings for what they are, legalized robbery, methods of stealing that are concealed in procedural confusion.

Karin discusses other books and resources, including David Marston's book Malice Aforethought, which I also recommend. Karin spends several chapters showing how to diagnose and heal yourself from the trauma of the courts, and she provides specific steps to follow. The book is like a friend who understands what you are going through when no one else does. I recommend reading the book, then going back and reading parts of it again as you encounter each new injustice in court system. Better yet, read the book before you get involved in a legal matter, and then avoid the courts, lawyers and judges like the plague.

Anyone who has ever worked ina legal aid office or law library has met people whose lives hvae come unhinged after a bad contact with the legal system. The details vary, they may have lost a business or an inheritance or the custody of a child, but the common them of feeling ripped off or violated by the legal system does not. Even 20 years after losing a lawsuite, some people who suffer from lega abuse synrome still carry a suitcase of old legal papers around, desperately hoping someone will help them find justice. This is the first book to identify what can best be described as a mental illness. It's must reading for anyone who comes in contact with America's small army of "suitcase people."

Karin Huffer's book is one of the most insightful books I've ever read, much needed in the legal field AND for life in general. I have used her 8-step protocol for multiple other-than-legal challenges with my clients: they work! Karin's book is $19.95, not the outrageous price at which it is offered with Amazon. It has been hijacked by unscrupulous people, with the blessing of Amazon it seems. Check Karin's website: [...] and order it directly from her. It belongs in every household. Danielle J. Duperret, PhD

Karin D. Huffer, MS, MFT, chronicles her 20 years of research and clinical work with LAS, a form of post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). LAS is a psychic injury, not a mental illness. It is a personal injury that develops in individuals assaulted by ethical violations, legal abuses, betrayals, and fraud. Abuse of power and authority and a profound lack of accountability in our courts have become rampant, compounding an already stressful experience.