The Dilema of a NH Mother Without Legal Representation

I was forwarded a letter from a Nashua, NH Mother today, who went to Court this morning in an attempt to have a temporary Restraining Order she filed against her estranged husband in October permanently enforced.
The estranged husband's mistress afforded him with an Atty. that was thirty-five minutes late, which clearly irritated the Marital Master. The estranged husband, an illegal, also asked for an Interpreter, which he request's every time he goes to court. At the last minute of course. It's funny but the husband and wife lived together for four and a half year's and she didn't speak Spanish. He took English classes and he never needed an Interpreter until it came time to go to court. So how did they communicate? The Marital Master saw through his charade when he started answering questions in English on his own, just as the first Marital Master saw through it also. Even more so after the husband made a smart remark to the first Marital Master stating he didn't have a brain in his head if he court-ordered visitation between mother and child. He should have been held in contempt. I don't know why he wasn't.
The Mother was clearly very nervous. The MM asked if her estranged husband had ever threatened or hit her. The husband answered no. He stated she had hit him. If a Lawyer had been there for the mother, he could have objected. The husband punched the mother in the face, in front of many witnesses, after she confronted him with an over-sized bra she found under their bed. She was arrested instead of him.
A voicemail was allowed played in court, where the wife told off her husband.The Mother was so nervous, she failed to tell the court that she called her husband AFTER he called her threatening her, that if he went to jail, she was all done. The mother had filed a contempt of court Motion, due to court-ordered visitation of their child,in January of 2010,who was supposed to have been put in counseling at a cost to the father, in which visitation would then occur. The father refused to put the child in counseling and promised the mother visits, stating he didn't want to go back to court. The mother waited and was allowed to talk to her child a few time's but got sick of waiting.
The Marital Master was aware that the contempt of court motion had not been received by the husband as of yet, so it was surmised the husband didn't know about it. The husband had to have known about it and the only way he could have known, was by the GAL in their case, who the mother and grandmother ran into at a local gas station after filing the motion.
The wife kept asking the husband for a divorce. Whenever they spoke, without his Mistress standing next to him, he told his wife he didn't want a divorce because he would then be forced into marrying the Mistress. He and his Mistress kept telling the wife they would meet at the court to file for the divorce, but they never did. The husband was afraid of what his wife wrote in the Divorce paper's she wanted him to sign. And with good reason. The surprises have yet to come out.
The husband's Lawyer sent her divorce paper's finally, with the reason being irreconcilable differences. Nowhere near the reason the wife wanted the divorce. The Marital Master saw nothing to indicate there were any pensions or Real Estate or anything else which would be included. The wife spoke up and said, "Yes, there definitely is more."
Everyone need's legal representation. If not, they need to research the law's and learn how to work their own case. There was so much more that this mother SHOULD have said at this hearing, but just didn't have a clue. Hopefully, she'll be ready for the very messy divorce with an excellent Lawyer she's already spoken with. The S*** WILL hit the fan!