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* FreudianExcuse: A lot of Abby's issues can be traced back to her parents' bitter divorce, her mother's drinking as a way of coping with said divorce, and her father's refusal to recognize her as his daughter for years afterwards.
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** A lot of Abby's issues can be traced back to her parents' bitter divorce, her mother's drinking as a way of coping with said divorce, and her father's refusal to recognize her as his daughter for yearsafterwards.afterwards.
** Abby's friend is a major anti-vaxxer as she believes a vaccine was responsible for the death of her baby sister. The doctors actually said it was a "crib death," but the woman's mother refused to believe that and passed that belief on to her daughter.
** A lot of Abby's issues can be traced back to her parents' bitter divorce, her mother's drinking as a way of coping with said divorce, and her father's refusal to recognize her as his daughter for years
** Abby's friend is a major anti-vaxxer as she believes a vaccine was responsible for the death of her baby sister. The doctors actually said it was a "crib death," but the woman's mother refused to believe that and passed that belief on to her daughter.
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* DoingWrongRight: In "Truthiness", Harry's reaction to finding out that his grandson used his calligraphy book to forge signatures for his classmates for money is to offer to help him set up an investment portfolio.
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* DoingWrongRight: In "Truthiness", Harry's reaction to finding out that his grandson used his calligraphy book to forge signatures for his classmates for money is to offer to help him set up an investment portfolio.
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* RelievedFailure: In "Truthiness", Abigail is only too happy to take a loss when she's hired by a friend who turns out to be a nutty anti-vaxxer... and whose ex-husband hires Frank to represent him, forcing her to face off against her own husband in court. She's somewhat less relieved when the friend responds to the setback by trying to kidnap her daughter.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: "Evil" might be an exaggeration, but Abigail is more willing than Daniel to bend the rules in order to win a case. In "Parenthood", for instance, she figures out that her clients' custody case is being sabotaged by the sister of the prospective mother, and uses this knowledge to blackmail the sister into a "kith and kin" custody agreement, and in "Until Death Do Us Part", she takes advantage of bank statements to falsely paint an innocent woman as an embezzler in order to take away her power of attorney over her mother.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: "Evil" might be an exaggeration, but Abigail is more willing than Daniel to bend the rules in order to win a case. In "Parenthood", for instance, she figures out that her clients' custody case is being sabotaged by the sister of the prospective mother, and uses this knowledge to blackmail the sister into a "kith and kin" custody agreement, and in "Until Death Do Us Part", she takes advantage of bank statements to falsely paint an innocent woman as an embezzler in order to take away her power of attorney over her mother. This comes back to bite her in the ass in "Three's Company" and "Truthiness" when her growing reputation for hardball tactics causes Harry to recruit her for Crystal Steele's divorce case and one of her nuttier friends to hire her to defend her anti-vaccination stance.
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* AmbiguouslyBrown: When the firm runs afoul of a right-wing pundit, her followers begin harassing the firm online. They spew a lot of racist filth, but they can't figure our what race Daniel is, so he gets every different kind of racism thrown at him.
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* {{Hypocrite}}: Abby and Daniel are rocked when their client reveals he was part of a polyamorous relationship...with the wife being a right-wing advocate who rails on LGBT people "ruining traditional marriage."
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* NotSoAboveItAll: In "Addicted to Love", Lucy, normally seen as the "nice" Svensson child, decides to celebrate Daniel's upcoming anniversary with his current girlfriend by starting a betting pool about how soon they're going to break up, as none of Daniel's previous relationships have lasted more than two years. Hilariously, ''everyone'' in the office except Daniel and Danielle is in on it, with Jerri quietly slipping her a hundred-dollar bill and Cecil begging her not to tell Daniel that he placed a bid.
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* NotSoAboveItAll: In "Addicted to Love", Lucy, normally seen as the "nice" Svensson child, decides to celebrate Daniel's upcoming anniversary with his current girlfriend by starting a betting pool about how soon they're going to break up, as none of Daniel's previous relationships have lasted more than two years. Hilariously, ''everyone'' in the office except Daniel and Danielle is in on it, with Jerri quietly slipping her Lucy a hundred-dollar bill and Cecil begging her not to tell Daniel that he placed a bid.
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** After Abigail makes a snarky remark about her well-known dad in court, the judge warns her that badmouthing another lawyer in family court, let alone who also happens to be her boss, will get her held in contempt, which would violate the terms of her probation.
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** In "Baby Off Board", Daniel gets tired of his inability to curb Abigail's behavior (and Harry's seeming indifference to it) and tries to petition Harry to make him a partner, pointing to all of his recent successful cases. Harry bluntly tells him his record isn't enough, because most of his cases are pro-bono and thus cost the firm more money than they bring in.
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* PopCulturalOsmosisFailure: Meeting her rather young therapist, Abby makes a crack about the woman "going to the same school as [[Series/DoogieHowserMD Doogie Howser]]." The woman seriously states she's never heard of the guy and maybe he was a year ahead of her.
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** A recurring theme of the series is that even the best parents struggle to live up to their kids' expectations, with womanizer Harry and alcoholic Abigail being particular examples.
** In "Until Death Do Us Part", Daniel takes on the case of Ira, a former neighbor of his who served as his surrogate father figure when he was growing up, as Ira fights to move his wife out of a nursing home, convinced that lack of care has caused her to forget that she's even married. As the case progresses, it becomes clear that Ira is blinded by his desire to preserve a marriage that is for all intents and purposes over, but Danny struggles to realize that Ira's in the wrong here because he sees Ira's influence as the main thing that's made him the "stable" Svensson sibling.
** A recurring theme of the series is that even the best parents struggle to live up to their kids' expectations, with womanizer Harry and alcoholic Abigail being particular examples.
** In "Until Death Do Us Part", Daniel takes on the case of Ira, a former neighbor of his who served as his surrogate father figure when he was growing up, as Ira fights to move his wife out of a nursing home, convinced that lack of care has caused her to forget that she's even married. As the case progresses, it becomes clear that Ira is blinded by his desire to preserve a marriage that is for all intents and purposes over, but Danny struggles to realize that Ira's in the wrong here because he sees Ira's influence as the main thing that's made him the "stable" Svensson sibling.
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* WellDoneSonGuy: Daniel has spent years faithfully working at his dad's law firm, but he's never really managed to escape his dad's shadow and now has to escape from Abby's shadow as well.
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''Family Law'' is a Canadian legal drama starring Creator/JewelStaite and Creator/VictorGarber. It airs on the Global Network in Canada and Creator/TheCW in the US.
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''Family Law'' is a Canadian legal drama starring Creator/JewelStaite and Creator/VictorGarber. It airs on the Global Network Creator/GlobalTelevisionNetwork in Canada and Creator/TheCW in the US.
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* AccidentalPublicConfession: Harry goes through a lot to settle with a flame after accidentally giving her chlamydia. Abby agrees to help him keep it quiet so as not to make Harry look foolish. But thanks to bumbling intern Cecil hitting the wrong button on a speakerphone, the ''entire firm'' hears Harry complaining about it to that woman.
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* BlatantLies: Abby is an expert bullshitter. When Frank comes to her office to demand to know if she's drinking and sending a text to his mistress, Abby manages to turn it around to not only deny it but make it sound like ''Frank'' is the wrong party in this to the point he apologizes to her.
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* BittersweetEnding: "Until Death Do Us Part" ends with Abby and Daniel winning their latest case, but the case involves a couple who practically raised Daniel after Harry divorced his mother, and watching their marriage dissolve leaves him in such a low mood that he calls off his engagement to Danielle.
* BlatantLies: Abby is an expert bullshitter. When Frank comes to her office to demand to know if she's drinking and sending a text to his mistress, Abby manages to turn it around to not only deny it but make it sound like ''Frank'' is the wrong party in this to the point he apologizes to her. In "Until Death Do Us Part", she also manages to spin otherwise-innocuous financial records into possible evidence of embezzlement in order to win a case.
* BlatantLies: Abby is an expert bullshitter. When Frank comes to her office to demand to know if she's drinking and sending a text to his mistress, Abby manages to turn it around to not only deny it but make it sound like ''Frank'' is the wrong party in this to the point he apologizes to her. In "Until Death Do Us Part", she also manages to spin otherwise-innocuous financial records into possible evidence of embezzlement in order to win a case.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: "Evil" might be an exaggeration, but Abigail is more willing than Daniel to bend the rules in order to win a case. In "Parenthood", for instance, she figures out that her clients' custody case is being sabotaged by the sister of the prospective mother, and uses this knowledge to blackmail the sister into a "kith and kin" custody agreement.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: "Evil" might be an exaggeration, but Abigail is more willing than Daniel to bend the rules in order to win a case. In "Parenthood", for instance, she figures out that her clients' custody case is being sabotaged by the sister of the prospective mother, and uses this knowledge to blackmail the sister into a "kith and kin" custody agreement. agreement, and in "Until Death Do Us Part", she takes advantage of bank statements to falsely paint an innocent woman as an embezzler in order to take away her power of attorney over her mother.
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** This is one of the few character flaws she inherited from her mother, who is still an unrepentant lush.
* ParentalSexualitySquick: Abigail gets an epic helping of this when Harry enlists her to help him settle a personal injury lawsuit brought by an ex-girlfriend who accuses him of giving her an STI. The same episode also opens with her being woken up by the sound of her mother having sex in the next room.
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*** This is a recurring problem for her as she adjusts to working in family court, where judges mostly rely on reports and data and aren't especially fond of the kind of grandstanding that Abby used to do in her old job.
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** In "Mama Don't Preach", as much as Abby, Daniel, and Lucy sympathize with teenage Aaron's desire to be emancipated from his homophobic mother, they note that he doesn't have a very strong case, as they can't prove abuse or neglect.
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** In "Mama Don't Preach", as much as Abby, Daniel, and Lucy sympathize with teenage Aaron's desire to be emancipated from his homophobic mother, they note that he doesn't have a very strong case, as they can't prove abuse or neglect. On the other hand, when Aaron's parents try to fire Daniel and Abigail, they are able to point to the pro-bono contract that they signed with Aaron, which his parents have no standing to discharge, thus allowing them to continue working for Aaron, even after his parents send him away to a conversion-therapy camp.
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* TheUnfavorite: Interestingly, all three of Harry's kids think they're this to him and act in jealousy over what they see as him favoring one over the other. That he basically treats them all the same (which is to say that none live up to his expectations for them) doesn't occur to them.
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* BlatantLies: Abby is an expert bullshitter. When Frank comes to her office to demand to know if she's drinking and sending a text to his mistress, Abby manages to turn it around to not only deny it but make it sound like ''Frank'' is the wrong party in this to the point he apologizes to her.
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* GladIThoughtOfIt: When Harry says he wants to meet his grandchildren, Abby is unsure of it. During an argument with Frank, Abby makes it sound like this is her idea to make amends and get her family together and Frank compliments her for showing growth with this and Abby walks off with a smug smile.
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* ItsAllAboutMe:
** Abby can have the tendency to act like her issues and drinking only affect her, not her family or co-workers and that somehow, the world is conspiring against her when so much of her problems are her own fault.
** Once more, she inherits this from her father as Harry's reaction to her falling off the wagon is, "does she know how this reflects on me?" Jerri point-blank snaps at him, "don't make this about you."
** Abby can have the tendency to act like her issues and drinking only affect her, not her family or co-workers and that somehow, the world is conspiring against her when so much of her problems are her own fault.
** Once more, she inherits this from her father as Harry's reaction to her falling off the wagon is, "does she know how this reflects on me?" Jerri point-blank snaps at him, "don't make this about you."
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* ShowerOfAngst: In the opening of "Mama Don't Preach", Abigail cries in the shower as she tries to wash away the evidence of her relapse, realizing that she's really screwed up.
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* TokenEvilTeammate: "Evil" might be an exaggeration, but Abigail is more willing than Daniel to bend the rules in order to win a case. In "Parenthood", for instance, she figures out that her clients' custody case is being sabotaged by the sister of the prospective mother, and uses this knowledge to blackmail the sister into a "kith and kin" custody agreement.
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* AllLesbiansWantKids: Lucy's wife Maggie ''really'' wants kids. Lucy really doesn't, and her resentment towards Maggie causes her to have an affair.
* CampGay: In "Mama Don't Preach", Daniel and Abby take up the case of a gay boy who dresses in fishnets and shawls.
* CoolOldLady: Jerri, Harry's longtime business partner, is the one person at the firm that everyone gets along with, and the only co-worker that Abby genuinely likes.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: For all that Harry is notorious for his harsh tactics, he is appalled when Abby suggests using spurious accusations of "vicious assault" to help the client of the week, a recovering game addict, win her custody battle against her ex-husband, as the first rule of family law is to ''always'' consider the kids' needs first, and it's not entirely clear that the kids would be well-served if their mom got sole custody.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: For all that Harry is notorious for his harsh tactics, he is appalled when Abby suggests using spurious accusations of "vicious assault" to help the client of the week, a recovering game addict, win her custody battle against her ex-husband, as the first rule of family law is to ''always'' consider the kids' needs first, and it's not entirely clear that the kids would be well-served if their mom got sole custody. Subverted when, after Abby is out of earshot, he suggests that Daniel file her suggestion away in case they need it.
* FreudianExcuse: A lot of Abby's issues can be traced back to her parents' bitter divorce, her mother's drinking as a way of coping with said divorce, and her father's refusal to recognize her as his daughter for years afterwards.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: During Daniel and Danielle's engagement party, Cecil cheerfully suggests that maybe now Harry will finally get some grandkids, right in front of Abby. When Harry quickly corrects him that he's already got two grandchildren, Cecil then makes things worse by admitting that he forgot that Abby was Harry's daughter.
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* InnocentlyInsensitive: HeteronormativeCrusader: In "Mama Don't Preach", Daniel and Abby take on a family who want to send their gay son into conversion therapy.
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** During Daniel and Danielle's engagementparty, party in "Addicted to Love", Cecil cheerfully suggests that maybe now Harry will finally get some grandkids, right in front of Abby. When Harry quickly corrects him that he's already got two grandchildren, Cecil then makes things worse by admitting that he forgot that Abby was Harry's daughter.daughter.
** In "Mama Don't Preach", Nico asks Jerri if she's "the one who used to be a man", much to Abby and Sofia's horror.
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* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: In the first episode, Abby and Harry have a solid case to force a wealthy man to pay almost half a million dollars in retroactive child support for a daughter that he sired anonymously, but Abby has a rare pang of conscience after seeing how much the case is upsetting the daughter in question, and arranges for a significantly smaller settlement that lays the groundwork for the man to have some kind of relationship with his daughter.
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** In the first episode, Abby and Harry have a solid case to force a wealthy man to pay almost half a million dollars in retroactive child support for a daughter that he sired anonymously, but Abby has arare sudden pang of conscience after seeing how much the case is upsetting the daughter in question, and arranges for a significantly smaller settlement that lays the groundwork for the man to have some kind of relationship with his daughter.daughter.
** In "Mama Don't Preach", Harry knows he is legally required to report Abby's relapse, but elects to help her cover it up because he knows that she'd be permanently disbarred if anyone found out.
* ShoutOut: In "Mama Don't Preach", Abigail introduces herself as "[[Literature/TheHandmaidsTale Mrs. Offred]]" when she poses as a concerned mother to send Cecil undercover in a conversion-therapy camp.
** In the first episode, Abby and Harry have a solid case to force a wealthy man to pay almost half a million dollars in retroactive child support for a daughter that he sired anonymously, but Abby has a
** In "Mama Don't Preach", Harry knows he is legally required to report Abby's relapse, but elects to help her cover it up because he knows that she'd be permanently disbarred if anyone found out.
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* TakeAThirdOption: This is how a lot of the cases get solved, because the priority of any good family-law attorney should be making sure the client's family isn't destroyed.
** In "Parenthood", caught between a pair of questionably-prepared parents with Down syndrome and an ableist social worker determined to keep their child away from them, Abby convinces the child's aunt to agree to a "kith and kin" arrangement whereby she raises the child while the parents work to gain custody.
** In "Mama Don't Preach", faced with a gay teenage client who wants to be legally emancipated from his parents in order to get away from his fanatical mother, but who doesn't have a strong case for emancipation (or the means to survive on his own for an extended period), Abby convinces the boy's more reasonable father to separate from his wife and take custody of the son.
* TakeAThirdOption: This is how a lot of the cases get solved, because the priority of any good family-law attorney should be making sure the client's family isn't destroyed.
** In "Parenthood", caught between a pair of questionably-prepared parents with Down syndrome and an ableist social worker determined to keep their child away from them, Abby convinces the child's aunt to agree to a "kith and kin" arrangement whereby she raises the child while the parents work to gain custody.
** In "Mama Don't Preach", faced with a gay teenage client who wants to be legally emancipated from his parents in order to get away from his fanatical mother, but who doesn't have a strong case for emancipation (or the means to survive on his own for an extended period), Abby convinces the boy's more reasonable father to separate from his wife and take custody of the son.
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** As with many of her problems, this seems to be inherited from her dad. When Harry complains to Jerri that Abby is ungrateful for his saving her career, Jerri points out that giving her a job only earns him so many brownie points when he caused a lot of her issues in the first place and regularly treats her worse than any of his other employees.
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* MyGodYouAreSerious: The reaction of Abby's former boss when he realizes she's under the delusion she is ''ever'' going to work for him again after vomiting on a client in court. He swiftly sets her straight there is no chance he ever hires her back.
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* OffTheWagon: At the end of "Addiced To Love," after being cut out from her family and Daniel's engagement announcement, Abby ends up indulging in some bottles of champagne. Harry walks into the office the next morning to find her passed out on the couch with empty bottles and can only give a look that he sadly expected this.
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* WantsAPrizeForBasicDecency: A key problem for Abigail as she expects more praise and respect from people, despite her problems. She brags about her one-month sober chip at AA and "I'm doing the work" when she just sits at meetings and looks down at the people speaking. She expects to be given important cases, ignoring she's on probation and complains about being put on "minor" duties like filing paperwork. She somehow thinks sharing a pamphlet on health with her daughter means all is forgiven between them and often complains over not being credited for solving a problem on a case that she ''created'' in the first place.
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* IRejectYourReality:
** A key part of Season 1 is Abby completely refusing to accept she's an alcoholic who needs help. She brushes off her early drinking as just a phase, refuses to go to therapy, and will just sit bored in AA meetings or even spend her time looking over notes during them. Every time she meets an addict of some kind, Abby will fail to realize she has the exact same problems they do.
** Abby goes to her old boss, assuring him as soon as her probation is done, she's ready to come back to work. He has to openly spell out ''none'' of Abby's clients want her because they wonder if she was drunk handling their cases, the guy she vomited on is suing the firm and Hell will freeze over before he hires her back.
** A key part of Season 1 is Abby completely refusing to accept she's an alcoholic who needs help. She brushes off her early drinking as just a phase, refuses to go to therapy, and will just sit bored in AA meetings or even spend her time looking over notes during them. Every time she meets an addict of some kind, Abby will fail to realize she has the exact same problems they do.
** Abby goes to her old boss, assuring him as soon as her probation is done, she's ready to come back to work. He has to openly spell out ''none'' of Abby's clients want her because they wonder if she was drunk handling their cases, the guy she vomited on is suing the firm and Hell will freeze over before he hires her back.
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* EveryoneHasStandards: For all that Harry is notorious for his harsh tactics, he is appalled when Abby suggests using spurious accusations of "vicious assault" to help the client of the week, a recovering game addict, win her custody battle against her ex-husband, as the first rule of family law is to ''always'' consider the kids' needs first, and it's not entirely clear that the kids would be well-served if their mom got sole custody.
* FirstPeriodPanic: In "Addicted to Love", Sofia gets her first period and runs home in a panic, having never experienced it before and being unsure of what she's supposed to do.
* EveryoneHasStandards: For all that Harry is notorious for his harsh tactics, he is appalled when Abby suggests using spurious accusations of "vicious assault" to help the client of the week, a recovering game addict, win her custody battle against her ex-husband, as the first rule of family law is to ''always'' consider the kids' needs first, and it's not entirely clear that the kids would be well-served if their mom got sole custody.
* FirstPeriodPanic: In "Addicted to Love", Sofia gets her first period and runs home in a panic, having never experienced it before and being unsure of what she's supposed to do.
* InnocentlyInsensitive: During Daniel and Danielle's engagement party, Cecil cheerfully suggests that maybe now Harry will finally get some grandkids, right in front of Abby. When Harry quickly corrects him that he's already got two grandchildren, Cecil then makes things worse by admitting that he forgot that Abby was Harry's daughter.
* LongHairedPrettyBoy: In "Addicted to Love", Abigail arranges for her client Marlee to meet the real-life person behind her online paramour, hoping that he'll be hideous and thus convince Marlee to give up online gaming. Much to her shock, he turns out to be very attractive, with long black curls.
* NotSoAboveItAll: In "Addicted to Love", Lucy, normally seen as the "nice" Svensson child, decides to celebrate Daniel's upcoming anniversary with his current girlfriend by starting a betting pool about how soon they're going to break up, as none of Daniel's previous relationships have lasted more than two years. Hilariously, ''everyone'' in the office except Daniel and Danielle is in on it, with Jerri quietly slipping her a hundred-dollar bill and Cecil begging her not to tell Daniel that he placed a bid.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Harry Svensson has been married three times, and each marriage produced one kid, with Abby being the oldest, Daniel being the middle child, and Lucy being the youngest. Since the death of Nina's mother, Harry has been seeing a string of other women; at one point, he is seeing two women simultaneously, but one of them only learns of it after he gives her chlamydia that he contracted from the other woman.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Harry Svensson has been married three times, and each marriage produced one kid, with Abby being the oldest, Daniel being the middle child, and Lucy being the youngest. Since the death of Nina's Lucy's mother, Harry has been seeing a string of other women; at one point, he is seeing two women simultaneously, but one of them only learns of it after he gives her chlamydia that he contracted from the other woman.
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* AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents: Abby invokes this when a social worker wants to keep a pair of parents with Down Syndrome from being with their child as "imagine his embarrassment of them showing up at his high school." Abby snorts the woman obviously has no children as ''every'' teenager feels embarrassed by their parents, no matter who they are.
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* MamaBear: Whatever else, Abby is fiercely protective of her kids. When she comes across her son shoved to the ground by a pack of bullies, Abby issues a threat to the leader that has him cowering on the spot.
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** Abigail stands up against a bully threatening her son, which has her banned from school property.
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* BrutalHonesty: Abby prides herself on this, which can cross the line a lot of times. For example, she point blank tells Lucy that if her mom hadn't died, their dad "would have left her too." Naturally, Lucy doesn't take that well.
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** Abby prides herself on this, which can cross the line a lot of times. For example, she point blank tells Lucy that if her mom hadn't died, their dad "would have left her too." Naturally, Lucy doesn't take that well.
** It seems Abby in inherited this from Harry, who's incredibly blunt with everyone and not grasping some of his attitudes don't fit in 2022 society.
** Abby prides herself on this, which can cross the line a lot of times. For example, she point blank tells Lucy that if her mom hadn't died, their dad "would have left her too." Naturally, Lucy doesn't take that well.
** It seems Abby in inherited this from Harry, who's incredibly blunt with everyone and not grasping some of his attitudes don't fit in 2022 society.
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* PoliticallyIncorrectHero: Harry can be a bit too "old school" in his attitudes toward modern cases. A good example is when he sees two people with Down's Syndrome, talks of how "those two are obviously..." and everyone has to cut him off before he actually says "retarded" in public.
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* BrutalHonesty: Abby prides herself on this, which can cross the line a lot of times. For example, she point blank tells Lucy that if her mom hadn't died, their dad "would have left her too." Naturally, Lucy doesn't take that well.
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* CureYourGays: In "Mama Don't Preach", the firm takes on the case of a gay teenager seeking to be emancipated from his parents because they're trying to force him into reparative therapy.
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* AntagonisticOffspring: Abby is still struggling to rebuild her relationship with her daughter after she went viral for all the wrong reasons. This runs in the family; Abigail has never had a great relationship with her father, to the point that he doesn't have any pictures of her or her mother in his office.
* CureYourGays: In "Mama Don't Preach", the firm takes on the case of a gay teenager seeking to be emancipated from his parents because they're trying to force him into reparativetherapy. therapy.
* DefrostingIceQueen: Over the course of the series, Abigail slowly learns how to be a better person.
* CureYourGays: In "Mama Don't Preach", the firm takes on the case of a gay teenager seeking to be emancipated from his parents because they're trying to force him into reparative
* DefrostingIceQueen: Over the course of the series, Abigail slowly learns how to be a better person.
* InstantBirthJustAddLabor: Subverted in "Parenthood", where Ellie, the client of the week, goes into labor in the middle of a custody hearing; while Abby and the others are quick to get her to the hospital, there are at least a few hours before she actually gives birth.
* MiddleChildSyndrome: Abigail, the oldest Svensson child, was a highly experienced lawyer before losing her old job, and Luce, the youngest, is an accomplished therapist. Daniel, the middle child, is a junior partner at his dad's law firm who not only has to live up to his dad's reputation, but also has to escape from his half-sister's looming shadow.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Lucy, the youngest of the Svensson siblings, is a black lesbian.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Daniel has spent years faithfully working at his dad's law firm, but
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Lucy, the youngest of the Svensson siblings, is a black biracial lesbian.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Daniel has spent years faithfully working at his dad's law firm,butbut he's never really managed to escape his dad's shadow and now has to escape from Abby's shadow as well.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Daniel has spent years faithfully working at his dad's law firm,
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* CureYourGays: In "Mama Don't Preach", the firm takes on the case of a gay teenager seeking to be emancipated from his parents because they're trying to force him into reparative therapy.
* JunkieParent: In "Addicted to Love", Abigail takes on the case of a woman who's on the verge of losing her kids because of her video-gaming addiction.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Harry Svensson has been married three times, and each marriage produced one kid, with Abby being the oldest, Daniel being the middle child, and Lucy being the youngest.
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* ReallyGetsAround: Harry Svensson has been married three times, and each marriage produced one kid, with Abby being the oldest, Daniel being the middle child, and Lucy being the youngest. Since the death of Nina's mother, Harry has been seeing a string of other women; at one point, he is seeing two women simultaneously, but one of them only learns of it after he gives her chlamydia that he contracted from the other woman.
* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome:
** In the first episode, Harry has a solid case to force a wealthy man to pay almost half a million dollars in retroactive child support for a daughter that he fathered anonymously, but Abigail undercuts him to arrange a settlement that pays out significantly less money but allows the daughter to build a relationship with her dad. It's a very fair settlement that both parties are happy with, but Harry is ''infuriated'', both because Abby went behind his back and because she effectively left millions of dollars in legal fees on the table.
** After Abigail makes a snarky remark about her well-known dad in court, the judge warns her that badmouthing another lawyer in court, let alone who also happens to be her boss, will get her held in contempt, which would violate the terms of her probation.
** In the first episode, Harry has a solid case to force a wealthy man to pay almost half a million dollars in retroactive child support for a daughter that he fathered anonymously, but Abigail undercuts him to arrange a settlement that pays out significantly less money but allows the daughter to build a relationship with her dad. It's a very fair settlement that both parties are happy with, but Harry is ''infuriated'', both because Abby went behind his back and because she effectively left millions of dollars in legal fees on the table.
** After Abigail makes a snarky remark about her well-known dad in court, the judge warns her that badmouthing another lawyer in court, let alone who also happens to be her boss, will get her held in contempt, which would violate the terms of her probation.
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* TwoferTokenMinority: Lucy, the youngest of the Svensson siblings, is a black lesbian.lesbian.
* WellDoneSonGuy: Daniel has spent years faithfully working at his dad's law firm, but
* WellDoneSonGuy: Daniel has spent years faithfully working at his dad's law firm, but
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''Family Law'' is a Canadian legal drama starring Creator/JewelStaite and Creator/VictorGarber. It airs on the Global Network in Canada and Creator/{{CW}} Creator/TheCW in the US.
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''Family Law'' is a Canadian legal drama starring Creator/JewelStaite and Creator/VictorGarber. It airs on the Global Network in Canada and Creator/{{CW}} in the US.
After her life falls apart, brilliant but arrogant lawyer Abigail Bianchi finds herself forced to work for her estranged father's law firm.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Abby's drinking has been a problem for a while. She finally hit bottom after puking on her client in court, leading to her losing custody of her kids and being ordered to go to rehab.
* AlcoholicParent: Abby lost custody of her kids because of her drinking. Her son Nico has forgiven her, but her daughter Sofia is still angry at her.
* AlphaBitch: Among Abby's many challenges is overcoming her reputation as a colossal bitch.
* HappilyMarried: Jerri's marriage is strong enough that it survived her coming at as a trans woman several decades into it.
* MissingMom: Lucy, the youngest Svensson sibling, lost her mother when she was eight years old.
* ReallyGetsAround: Harry Svensson has been married three times, and each marriage produced one kid, with Abby being the oldest, Daniel being the middle child, and Lucy being the youngest.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: In the first episode, Abby and Harry have a solid case to force a wealthy man to pay almost half a million dollars in retroactive child support for a daughter that he sired anonymously, but Abby has a rare pang of conscience after seeing how much the case is upsetting the daughter in question, and arranges for a significantly smaller settlement that lays the groundwork for the man to have some kind of relationship with his daughter.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Abby's co-workers (who also happen to be her half-siblings) are less-than-pleased about having to work with a half-sibling who's only there because she's their boss' daughter.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Lucy, the youngest of the Svensson siblings, is a black lesbian.
After her life falls apart, brilliant but arrogant lawyer Abigail Bianchi finds herself forced to work for her estranged father's law firm.
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!!This series contains examples of:
* TheAlcoholic: Abby's drinking has been a problem for a while. She finally hit bottom after puking on her client in court, leading to her losing custody of her kids and being ordered to go to rehab.
* AlcoholicParent: Abby lost custody of her kids because of her drinking. Her son Nico has forgiven her, but her daughter Sofia is still angry at her.
* AlphaBitch: Among Abby's many challenges is overcoming her reputation as a colossal bitch.
* HappilyMarried: Jerri's marriage is strong enough that it survived her coming at as a trans woman several decades into it.
* MissingMom: Lucy, the youngest Svensson sibling, lost her mother when she was eight years old.
* ReallyGetsAround: Harry Svensson has been married three times, and each marriage produced one kid, with Abby being the oldest, Daniel being the middle child, and Lucy being the youngest.
* ScrewTheRulesImDoingWhatsRight: In the first episode, Abby and Harry have a solid case to force a wealthy man to pay almost half a million dollars in retroactive child support for a daughter that he sired anonymously, but Abby has a rare pang of conscience after seeing how much the case is upsetting the daughter in question, and arranges for a significantly smaller settlement that lays the groundwork for the man to have some kind of relationship with his daughter.
* TeethClenchedTeamwork: Abby's co-workers (who also happen to be her half-siblings) are less-than-pleased about having to work with a half-sibling who's only there because she's their boss' daughter.
* TwoferTokenMinority: Lucy, the youngest of the Svensson siblings, is a black lesbian.
