I’ve had a lot of younger male potential clients come in for divorce consults with their mother. Then, during the consult, the mother does 98% of the talking, and it’s clear who actually wants the divorce. (I’ll usually escort Mom to wait in the lobby while I talk to the son directly, and most of the time he’s just there to appease his mother.)

On a related note, I once had just the mother call for a consult because she said explicitly she wanted her son to get a divorce. I politely informed her that’s not how divorces worked…