This is cold.



In skimming Overlawyered, I think I've found the coldest way possible to get dumped. Florida's laws on attorney's soliciting clients are notoriously lax, so much so that "ambulance chaser" has a whole new meaning. I'll bet the lawyers down there have scanners in their BMW's so they can beat the ambulance to the accident scene.



Anyway, apparently they've also got a system of buying the names of divorce defendants right after the petition's filed. So the poor chump gets a "Dear Prospective Client" letter from a lawyer before ever receiving notice or service of the divorce papers. Key quotes:



". . . one man returned from his mother's funeral in South America to learn from three lawyers' letters in his mailbox that his wife had left him." A "woman filed for divorce but did not serve the papers at once, waiting for family members to fly in to protect her. Before that could happen, a lawyer's flyer reached her husband, who came to the woman's house and beat her."