What should I recommend to a friend to deal with her legal nightmare?

ObscuredBeyond

Let's just call her Maya (not her real name, obviously.) Her father-in-law has been out to ruin her and her husband's life, because he can't forgive his son for marrying a black woman. He's a dyed-in-the-wool self-made aristocrat Florida redneck, racist as the day is long, and a narcissistic manipulator. But oddly enough, he's the least of her problems.

During the tyrannical lockdowns, which used a Chinese exosome as a pitiful excuse, she lost her job (also due to the exosome greed of the gubmint that shut down her employer, something DeSantis' "magic touch" was unable to prevent.)

She would eventually find another, but fell on hard times. She wanted to do the responsible thing, and her mother-in-law offered to watch the kids for a while as she and her husband tried to get financially back on their feet.

The father-in-law decided to use that as an opportunity to play hard ball to make her pay - for having the audacity to be black!

First, he then tried to utilize the (very corrupt) family court system to ensure it was nigh-impossible for her to ever regain full custody of her own two children. Then, he concocted some cockamamie story about her conspiring to kidnap them and take them to Colorado. She was arrested, and branded a "kidnapper," over what was essentially HIM doing the actual kidnapping!

Her lawyer charged her $800 to not help her at all, because bringing up the past meant rocking the boat.

She was denied her chance to fight him, overcharged extortionary rates to fight her case in court, blackmailed into a plea deal, railroaded into prison for a year, still on probation, and now has to pay child support for kids she almost never gets to see.

The man is demonstrably abusive, narcissistic, racist, cruel, emotionally unstable, etc. But the court only cares about money. He has it in spades. They continually rob her, when she has very little. Seems the entire system is hellbent on betraying her for profit. Incessant greed!

What should I recommend to a friend to deal with her legal nightmare?
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