Word: wajdenfeld
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...Eugenia Wajdenfeld stood last week in the foul-smelling hallway of a New York City courthouse, clutching her purse in one hand and a bulging green file in the other. She was immaculately dressed and polite, in contrast to most of the people she had dealt with that day. When her husband of 25 years asked for a divorce in 1998, Wajdenfeld hired a lawyer. But "he didn't do nothing," she says in a clipped Polish accent. So in January, she made a calculation that more and more Americans are making: she could do better representing herself. Though Wajdenfeld...
That's the reluctant conclusion that Eugenia Wajdenfeld has also reached, after five months on her own. "It's been hell," she says, recounting the times she's been misled or baffled by the court's procedures. With two days until her next hearing, she's desperately in search of a professional...
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