Not sure if this is the right place to post this, but I thought it was appropriate considering the candle I had ordered.
A dear friend of mine is going through a divorce. The legal proceedings had started Spring 2014, but the end is still nowhere in sight, it seems. I'd ordered the candle, hoping that it would move things along. The report basically said that there might have been a doubt around this work and may cause future resistance towards your goal," "an old doubt that could turn into a new frustration," and possibly "any unresolved issues from the past may need focus for this work to complete."
Before moving along, I'd like to thank Miss Kelly for the reading.
It was pretty spot on, in fact. I did have some doubt about the work. For one, my friend's future ex-wife is a stubborn woman, the kind who believes that she's right in everything she does and says. She believes that God is protecting her and will give her the victory she "deserves," despite being cruel to both her husband and animals, and just a useless, greedy person who never set out to do anything with her life except play bingo in the hopes of winning the jackpot.
Okay, let me get back on track here.
The end of the report said, "Continued faith and focus may help with this work." This led me to think that perhaps I was focusing on the wrong target. Perhaps it's the lawyer I need to focus on.
In addition to being greedy, cruel, and useless, the wife is also gullible (when she isn't being paranoid; yes, she does switch between the two). She's gone to a law firm that represents only women, and they claim to have their clients' best interests at heart. Well, I'd done some research on this law firm, and my friend's lawyer also has some experience with them.
Turns out that this "women-friendly" firm is your typical thieving pack of lawyers preying on the innocent and uninformed. They used to have three reviews on Yelp.com, two absolutely glowing and fawning

, and one single-star review that outed their true nature. A year later, I returned to the Yelp.com profile and found only the one-star review remaining. (I believe they might have paid for those two glowing reviews or something.)
But that review matches what my friend's lawyer has said: they deliberately drag out cases in order to gain every cent from their clients' retainers. And since the wife gave her lawyer $6,000... yeah, this could go on a while. (The author of the one-star review said her lawyer took all of the $5,000 retainer AND dragged out the case for two years.)
In addition, these lawyers tend to cave in to the opposition when it looks like a visit to court might be a reality. My friend's lawyer says this case could go either way: her lawyer gives in or they go to court.
I'd much rather the wife's lawyer give in. I personally don't care about the wife's retainer; the lawyer can come up with a hundred bogus charges to use up all the money for all I care. (And the wife would be too stupid to understand or investigate the matter, anyway.)
All right, so with all of that rigmarole out of the way, FINALLY, here is my question:
How would I go about compelling the wife's lawyer to give in to my friend's demands? No spousal support, no "retainer" for future spousal support, just half the property and every fair acquiescence that my friend has made during this long battle.