{"id":291548,"date":"2007-11-12T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-11-12T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/love-is-a-better-law\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T20:39:40","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T18:39:40","slug":"love-is-a-better-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/love-is-a-better-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Love is a better law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Beyond the legal framework within which we live, love is the highest  measure of justice, and resolves problems that appear to have no solution.<\/em>  <strong>As a lawyer, I often have to use my professional skills in the  service of others<\/strong>, while offering as much love as possible. This way of  understanding and of carrying out my job often produces a deep change in others.  <strong>One day a lady phoned me, because her daughter had decided, after an  argument, to separate from her hus<\/strong>band. Her partner had found a lawyer  who within 24 hours had prepared all the documentation for a legal separation;  it only needed the wife\u2019s signature. The lady was worried and asked me if I  could help. She knew that the young couple\u2019s action was a result of momentary  anger, and didn\u2019t want this to ruin their future.  <strong>Without a mandate from either partner, I couldn\u2019t intervene<\/strong>.  The lady asked me, however, to see her daughter, who she would send to me with  the excuse of seeking advice from a lawyer.  <strong>I listened for a long time to the young wife<\/strong>, and realised  that the marriage could be saved. They really had acted on impulse without  thinking of the consequences, and one signature on the petition would probably  mean the end of their relationship. At the end of the conversation the woman  asked me to represent her.  <strong>So I phoned the colleague who had prepared the petition.<\/strong> I  told him that before finalising a separation I usually try to find out the  reasons for the crisis in the marriage, and that 24 hours were not enough. I got  him to send the draft of the petition. After a few days I called the woman. She  replied that both she and he husband had had second thoughts and had decided not  to go ahead. Recently I heard that they now have two beautiful children.  (F.C.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A couple on the point of separation start again, thanks to a lawyer who \u201csimply\u201d listened<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"give_campaign_id":0,"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-291548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-non-categorizzato"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=291548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/291548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=291548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=291548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.focolare.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=291548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}