The Big Money Behind Infidelity

Without a doubt, the biggest low life’s in infidelity are divorce attorneys. Don’t get me wrong — there are good ones — a few — but for the most part, they capitalize on family dissolution. Divorce attorneys are the only people who benefit from a protracted divorce or custody fight. Face it — a quick resolution does nothing for a divorce attorney’s pocketbook. Unlike entertainment attorneys, they do not get a percentage of their client’s intake or bounty. They get hourly fees.

A great, current example of this is Anna Nicole Smith’s Los Angeles based paternity attorney, Ron Rale, who was quoted in People magazine:

“Ron Rale, Smith’s attorney in the paternity case against her brought by photographer Larry Birkhead, who claims to be the father of Smith’s 7-week-old daughter, Dannielynn Hope, would neither confirm nor deny that Smith had received the letter.

Rale did say, however, “If that’s the case, it’s amazing the sequence of events that poor Anna Nicole has had to endure, the one bright light being Dannielynn.”

Poor Anna Nicole? What are the chances her attorney, Mr. Rale, is working pro-bono for her? I’ll tell you — zero. At $400 an hour, Mr. Rale could be a little more honest about ‘poor Anna Nicole’ and advise her to allow the paternity test and get on with life rather than drumming up the fight that will benefit him and his law firm with big bucks, and leave her poorer, sadder, more frustrated because she’s not being advised in her best interests, but in her attorney’s best interests.

Mr. Rale, and other divorce attorneys like him take on cases because they think they will make a lot of money — not because they have their client’s best interests at heart. That’s why the big winners in infidelity and other such cases are the attorneys.