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A Napoleonic-code type of civil law system, I'm assuming?

Because the common-law system that the U.S. uses is much more complex, which increases the complexity for the lawyers, which increases the cost of the lawyers/judges/etc. However rich a few of the lawyers may be, most struggle through and don't pay off their student loans until comparatively late.

But over there the lawyers are inexpensive (or simply unnecessary)? Because if that's the case it sounds like the issue is already solved, simply move to where you live.

If the lawyers are expensive, but not for their clients, it simply means that someone else is footing the bill, which has analogs within the U.S. (public defenders) but most who can pay choose to forgo public defenders (assuming the state even provides that option).



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