When I came home from a trip, I discovered my three-year-old daughter trembling with her hair completely shaved off. My mother-in-law looked at her coldly and said, “That’s how children learn not to take what isn’t theirs.” – Welcome

I called every family attorney Marissa recommended until a woman named Danielle Pierce agreed to meet me that afternoon.

Danielle’s office was downtown on the eighth floor of a glass building that smelled of printer toner and costly coffee. Lily sat beside me in the waiting area, clutching the stuffed rabbit she had owned since kindergarten. She looked continue reading …