No Free Will

© 2017 The Texas Lawbook.By Forrest and Paula HintonIt was always clear, as a child, that my brother and I had no free will until we had obtained our law degrees from the University of Alabama. After that had been accomplished, we could decide what we wanted to do with our lives. Being dutiful children born in the 1950s we recognized that we had no choice and marched down our paths to that end. What a great path it has been.Our father, Jimmie Hinton, was also told as a child by his mother that he would be a lawyer. Pauline Britton Hinton had a sixth-grade education and worked with our grandfather running a general store in Anniston, Alabama. She saw the respect that attorneys received in the local community. She wanted that for her only child, particularly after he contracted polio and was “different” from the other local boys who could play sports and run in the fields. My grandmother never lived to see him graduate from the University of Alabama School of Law, but he found his true calling. Our Dad loved his profession and would have made her proud in his career. He wanted his children to love…