Lawyer

As you delve further into beYou, you may decide that you want to start or expand your beYou family tree by getting married or adopting children, or simply adding extended members to your circle. To do any of these activities, you will require the services of a lawyer.

## Restrictions/Requirements

In order to participate in the Law Profession, you will need know the following restrictions and have the following requirements:

* MUST be a level 5 beYou citizen in order to activate this or any profession.
* Can not change professions for 60 days once profession has been enabled

## What is a beYou Lawyer?

beYou lawyers will handle many of the legal requirements one needs to further pieces of their experiences within beYou. They process family-oriented requests like marriages, adoptions and divorces. They also process some service licenses like Food Services and a few more coming soon.

## Becoming a Lawyer

Once you establish yourself as a lawyer, you can immediately begin practicing law. You will need to advertise your services to procure clientele. You can do this straight away by either joining several inworld spam groups, using the beYou Ad Service prims that you can get at the main beYou sim by the adboards, or by doing grassroots advertising on your own via your social circles or other social media outlets. However, ***you can not advertise in the main beYou group***; This is against the group charter.

## Leveling Your Profession

Once you become a lawyer, you will advance your profession by leveling your skill points. To determine what skill points you need to advance, click on the account options button on your profile, and choose ‘My Career Path.’

In ‘My Career Path’, you will see what research you must accomplish, which skill points you need to advance and how many life experience points (LEP) you will need to advance to the next level.

### **Books**

In order to advance you must complete the following books in order. If you are new to beYou, you will need to complete the Learn to train book that comes with the *beYou Study Hall Skill Trainer* desk prior to the starter profession books. ***(note if you completed these books prior to March 2023, you will need to do these books again. They should be reset for you within your beYou Study Hall Skill Trainer)***

**STARTER BOOKS**

> *Please note that when you go to buy these books, the beginner books show above the trainee books. This is due to naming conventions and can not be changed. You will need to buy the TRAINEE books prior to to beginner books to advance.*
> Also note you need to do the books ONLY showing in your guided tasks. **DO NOT do the beginner books before you are level 1**. There are 2 level 1 bubbles that look for you to complete the books, due to limitations, if you complete them before time you cant get the credit. If you have mistakenly started the beginner books while still in level 0 of your new career, there is a button on the beYou website to reset your books, you will need to redo them when you get to level 1.
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**LEVEL 0**

* Basic Rules of Law - Part 1 (LEVEL 0)
* Basic Rules of Law - Part 2 (LEVEL 0)

**LEVEL 1**

**DO NOT COMPLETE TILL YOU LEVEL AND HAVE A BUBBLE!!!**

* Lawyer Beginner-002A ***(LEVEL 1)***
* Lawyer Beginner-002B ***(LEVEL 1)***

**ALL books after the starters are gained through the new education class process.**

> **Lawyers will need to work with other Lawyers to have forms processed. You will not be able to use your own Law desks for your own certifications and forms.**
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### **Other standard leveling requirements:**

> While viewing 'My Career Path’, there are some main task you will need to complete, each level, in addition to your book trainings.
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> * **Certificate** - Go see a lawyer, they can process your certification, **provided you have completed all prerequisite books**.
> * **Law Paintings** - Artisans not only pamper you.. good ole relaxation, They also are tasked with making your professions artwork templates. Find your artwork templates on the marketplace.
> * **Exercise Sessions** - No slacking for you - grab a few mats, from the marketplace, and stretch those hamstrings out... need to be fit for all the running back n forth from the printer.
> * **Maintenance** - You're using your **non LIMITED** equipment ... well when it breaks (And it will) you will get credits for your repairs.
> * **Clean professional Equipment** - grab your **bY Cotton Weave Rug**, **bY Hemp Weave Rug** & **bY Synthetic Weave Rug** from the marketplace to get these credits.
> * **Personal Care** - Go see a relaxing artisan to get your personal care credits. (COMING SOON)
> * **Immunity Boost** - unlike other professions, lawyers are not mandatory health enabled... So we are sending you to get shots. Hope you arent afraid of needles :D (Coming soon)
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## FAQ's

***I used my Exercise Mat and did not see my Guided research path change.***

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> Did you use the correct mat? beYou has some older fitness mats that only gave fitness points and were sold by beYou, not the community, these will not fulfill the Exercise training session requirement.
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> Did you use the **non-copy version** of the player created mat? One of the mats is for rp only while the other completes a session and is single use, No copy (this mat starts with "bY").
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***I had a lawyer do my certification and started the forms but I didn't get the credit.***

> Certification can not be completed till you have done BOTH book **Basic Rules of Law - Part 1** and **Basic Rules of Law - Part 2** (TRANIEE). Complete your books first or you will need to go to a lawyer again after they have completed. Any form completed before your books are done, will be invalid.
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***My training book will not allow me to start it.***

> Have you done the "Learn to train" book that came with your Study Hall Trainer? You are required to complete that introduction book prior to any other books.
> Did you get the top 2 books that say beginner and have a number 002? These books have to be studied after 001 (aka Basic Rules of Law).
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***I have a bubble for cleaning***

> The cleaning bubble for Law requires you to get a bY Synthetic Weave Rug, bY Hemp Weave Rug or bY Cotton Weave Rug from the beYou market. Like the exercise mats, you will need 5 to complete your research bubble.
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***I want to finish my guided research bubbles but I haven't been able to***

> BeYou professions are very intertwined. That being said only a few of the most important new professions have been rolled out. We are currently waiting on Artisan and Mixology, until they are released, you will not be able to level up completely. The hopes are for them to be pushed out before the end of 2023.
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***I am done with all my guided research bubbles, what now***

> Your profession should tell you on your page that you can level up. Click level up and you should get a new set of guided tasks. DO NOT!!!! do your 002 books until you have a circle for it and have leveled.
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***It looks like we need a "pamper session" what is this.***

> Artisan is coming - once released, visit your local barber, hair salon, nail tech etc. ***CURRENTLY THIS IS NOT ROLLED OUT- COMING SOON***
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***I don't want to do Law but I turned it on***

> Mistakes happen, open a ticket and see if staff can help you. There is **NO** guarantee they will revert your career path, but you can ask them.
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## How it all Works

If the Lawyer profession is enabled on your beYou account, you will be able to practice law and offer legal services to any beYou citizen who requires legal services. Some of the older Family law forms are processed directly via the beYou website. Newer profession forms are all processed in world from your law desk.

### Some Available Legal Services

beYou Lawyers help with some of the following:

**LAWYERS AND CITIZENS**... it is important to state, that a lawyer can start the processing of any form at any time - they can not see your profile so as a citizen **YOU** must make sure you have completed the steps in your bubbles prior to the certification step and do not hit "START" on your form until you are ready...

> ***ANY FORMS COMPLETED OUT OF ORDER WILL PROCESS BUT YOU WILL GET NO CREDIT.***
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> ***YOUR CLIENT WILL BE REQUIRED TO DO THE FORM AGAIN WHEN THEY HAVE COMPLETED THE PREREQUISITES.***
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**IMPORTANT NOTE**: Unless your client is adding to a family they're already in, they can not already be in a family if they wish to join a new one. It is the beYou lawyer's responsibility to explain that in more detail when offering services.

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> To process any legal requests, a lawyer must first get an application/form from an educator & process the application/form via the law portal on the beYou website.
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> * Adoption Application
> * Divorce Application
> * Extended Family Application
> * Family Name Change Application
> * Marriage Application
> * Name Change Application
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> #### Processing Forms
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> Under the image for each type of service you will see “You have applications available!” in bold underneath each image. This will then allow you to submit these forms on your Lawyer page.
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> Just below the sign are tabs for the following applications: Marriages, Adoptions, Divorces, Extended Family, Food Services, Name Changes, and Family Name Change.
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> Each tab will keep track of your clients as well as their fulfillment codes.
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> Applications processed by Level 0 lawyers will take 5 days to process provided all instructions have been followed by the client(s) to ensure accurate processing.
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> When processing a client, the user’s name box will automatically start providing names that match. Be sure to select from the list to ensure proper spelling. If an invalid name is entered it will not process the application.
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> Depending on the type of form, all parties affected within the family will have to visit their family pages (http://www.beyouworld.com/me - scroll down to the family section) and confirm the operation being serviced. If they do not confirm, then the process will not be completed
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> Once the process is complete, the beYou user will receive a certificate via the beYou website and a fulfillment code will be added to each person's profile under the family tab by clicking on the red icons as well as on the lawyer’s page that processed the form(s).
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> Lawyers who wish to process some of our higher level forms will have to use the bY Law Processing Desk.
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> Once a form that you have submitted has been processed, the 'current status' of your form will be listed as complete and the column that says fulfillment code will now display a long alphanumeric string in it. This is the code you will give to your clients upon completion of their forms.
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## Completion Error Warning

There will be times when, after the application/license/form completes, your client might not receive credit or a certificate. Have them file a ticket to remedy that, especially if it's something to do with their application not going through or family not appearing after forms are done.

As a lawyer, your job is to provide the certification and services needed; however please remember that you need to consult with your client as well, and find out if they are ready for the form they are requesting.

Our job is to process the forms, but ethically if they have no completed their books or setup the family - or talked to the person they are adopting/marrying/adding to a family, do not process a form. If you process a form and they have no completed the prerequisites, you may have an angry client that will need to come back to you again for services or have to open tickets for doing things out of order.

Remember Law is a ROLEPLAY positions, not just services. Consult with your clients, go over the process, find out if they are ready before processing.