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Others have mostly covered your myriad errors, but: > Your citizenship would be revoked if you didn't pay taxes Per US Supreme Court decisions going back deca

Others have mostly covered your myriad errors, but: > Your citizenship would be revoked if you didn't pay taxes Per US Supreme Court decisions going back decades, citizenship cannot be "revoked" from a natural-born US citizen under any circumstances, and may only be removed from a naturalized citizen in case of fraud during the naturalization process. Failure to pay taxes is a criminal offense, not a grounds for loss of citizenship. And: > Your lawyer would tell your secrets and tell the court you are guilty if you didn't pay his fee. Attorney/client privilege attaches the moment you begin speaking to an attorney as a client or prospective client. It is not dissolved by failure to pay. It is not dissolved by anything except, sometimes, death of the client (and courts are inconsistent on that one). An attorney who did what you described would be disbarred, and the "evidence" would be inadmissible in court.

dllthomas 13y ago
The parent comment wasn't an assertion these things happen, it was a "what if these things did happen?" (and, in particular, without going to court first).
- nknighthb 13y ago
  To be meaningful, "what ifs" must be based on scenarios that are somehow comparable. The two I called out implicate not property rights, but fundamental constitutional rights.
  - dllthomas 13y ago
    That's not an absurd objection, but you should have made it clearer. All I got from your comment was an assertion that these things weren't the case, and of course they're not the case - that was the point of the preceding comment.
fnordfnordfnord 13y ago
I was in my atty's office last week. A secretary was trying to make arrangements for an apparently frantic client who needed an atty to represent him in front of a judge (request a continuance, I think). The client had 'payment problems' and not a single atty in the office could find the time to rep' him. In other words, your atty will leave you to swing in the wind.
- FireBeyond 13y ago
  Is your attorney really yours if you've not paid a fee or retainer?

dllthomas 13y ago

The parent comment wasn't an assertion these things happen, it was a "what if these things did happen?" (and, in particular, without going to court first).

nknighthb 13y ago
To be meaningful, "what ifs" must be based on scenarios that are somehow comparable. The two I called out implicate not property rights, but fundamental constitutional rights.
- dllthomas 13y ago
  That's not an absurd objection, but you should have made it clearer. All I got from your comment was an assertion that these things weren't the case, and of course they're not the case - that was the point of the preceding comment.

fnordfnordfnord 13y ago

I was in my atty's office last week. A secretary was trying to make arrangements for an apparently frantic client who needed an atty to represent him in front of a judge (request a continuance, I think). The client had 'payment problems' and not a single atty in the office could find the time to rep' him. In other words, your atty will leave you to swing in the wind.

FireBeyond 13y ago
Is your attorney really yours if you've not paid a fee or retainer?