In: Operations Management
Your assignment is to consider the areas the paralegal needs to probe to ensure that the office doesn't misunderstand what the client wants.
During an interview, a client makes the following statement: “I
want to institutionalize my sick father.” Examples of questions to
ask: Why does she want to commit her father? Has the client
considered or tried outpatient care? Is she seeking revenge against
him? Does she need police protection from her father? Does she know
what a mental institution is? Is she attempting to obtain some of
her property from him, which he controls? Is she seeking access to
his property? Is someone else squandering her father’s property,
which she does not know how to stop?
Your second client of the day states “I want my boss arrested for
assaulting me.”
And, your third client of the day states “I want to file for
divorce.”
Arresting boss for assaulting
Filing for divorce