Word: obtaining
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Advocates, unlike lawyers, cannot represent clients or make legal arguments in court. Instead, advocates informally intervene on behalf of individual victims to obtain restraining orders, usually by presenting relevant facts before the presiding judge. Advocates also provide additional support to women, such as emotional support or help completing legal forms...
Students then hold mock trials to test their skills, and observe experienced advocates at local courts. Once trained, advocates go to court and stand by for women who come to obtain restraining orders, Buel said...
Advocates can also help women obtain child custody and support orders or specific child visitation rights...
...skilled gunsmith can accomplish the conversion for almost all semiautomatics, and there is a considerable demand for that service. Since 1934 federal law has made full automatics, such as machine guns, difficult to buy for anyone except police, the military and licensed collectors. A private purchaser has to obtain both federal and state licenses and undergo a rigorous federal background check...
...Willie Charles, son of the man who stole the piano, wants to sell it and use the proceeds to buy and farm the very land where his ancestors were slaves. Boy Willie's sister Berniece denounces as sacrilege the idea of selling away a legacy her father died to obtain...