lawyer didn't file in time, now I have a judgement

I filed for bankruptcy and during this time before it was granted a creditor filed an adversary complaint. My lawyer told me not to worry and asked me my replys on the addressed issues so he could answer. However he did not respond and I now have a judgement against me for over 8,000.00 The company has since sold (Avco Financial) and has a new name. Is the judgement automatically now theirs? Since my credit and judgement reads Avco and there now is no such company. I am really worried about my wages getting garnished. My lawyer will not discuss it with me only to say that I did not pay him to answer the adversary complaint. Of course I never got a bill or was told there was additional money due, I certainly would have paid it. It is his legal way out, Gordon And Associates in San Diego. Also can a judgement be appealed almost a year later?

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I am a law school graduate. What I offer is mere information, not to be construed as forming an attorney client relationship.

Lots of stuff going on.

Okay, basically, you have many issues:

consider suing your attorney for malpractice: the measuere you will have to show is you would have won but for your attorney's malpractice. -- like not filing in time.

Get a new lawyer


read this link:

Read the FDCPA (Fair Debt Collections Practices Act) at the following website: [url="http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpa/fdcpact.htm"]http://www.ftc.gov/os/statutes/fdcpa/fdcpact.htm[/url]