ORLANDO – Paul Zeniewicz’s office is not your typical law office. But then, Zeniewicz isn’t really your typical lawyer.
At first, he sounds like one.
“I do first party property insurance. I sue insurance companies for various indiscretions,” said Zeniewicz.
But that’s before he starts talking about his real passion.
“I do a lot of volunteer work as a guardian ad litem attorney,” said Zeniewicz. “What a guardian ad litem attorney is, is an attorney who works in the best interests of different children. You’re talking about parental custody and termination of parental rights and different things like that.”
It’s an effort he sort of fell into 12 years ago.
“My friend worked at Legal Aid. And she said, ‘Please, please, there’s all these children out here that need your help, or need help from a lawyer, would you please take on the case?’ I did, it was a baby,” said Zeniewicz. “And I got to know the family and got to help them. The grandmother adopted the baby. And I found it super rewarding.:
Zeniewicz said that case was relatively easy, but he quickly learned those are few and far between.
“People want to adopt babies. The harder, more difficult cases, are the 12-year-old client who might have been sexually abused or had severe abuse from their parents. Because, you know, they’re probably not going to get adopted, right? If they’ve been in the foster system.”
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