A female lawyer defends a mother whose children are taken into care. But as she starts to believe the mother’s story that the children are possessed, she fears she’s put her own family in jeopardy.

>>she fears she's put her own family in jeopardy.

A function of a logline is to state the essence of a plot. And a plot is about action, not states of mind. So a logline should describe what the main character DOES -- not what the main character believes, feels, expects, or fears may happen to her (or others).

There is a lot of legal and psychological baggage in this logline and I am not sure how to sort it out. The story seems to be about a female lawyer who defends a woman whose children have been taken into protective custody. Why have the children been taken into protective custody?

That the mother fears her children are possessed is not by itself a sufficient probable cause for either arrest or protective custody. What is legally actionable is what the mother DOES as a result of her fear-- a specific act or pattern of behavior that is illegal and/or poses a threat to the welfare of the children. What does the woman DO that gives the state probable cause, that requires the woman to retain a lawyer (or have the court appoint one)?

Hi loisterrans, Thanks for your comments. However, I wanteded the lawyer to be the central character, as the mother has learning difficulties, and is seen as an easy target in the story, who then does a 'Primal Fear' 180 degrees reveal, as a totally different personality, and becomes very scary.

A mother fighting to regain custody of her children must convince her female lawyer she did not abuse them but they are supernaturally possessed.