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My wife an I are going through a divorce, we've been separated for over a year. We have each retained a lawyer to represent us. There have been issues in the past that prevented us from working together on a settlement. Recently my wife an I have agreed to put our differences to the side and work together to reach an agreement for the sake of our future sanity and our child.
My attorney had drafted up an agreement based on the discussions I've had with my wife and sent them to her attorney. So far, we have gone back and made adjustments twice. Now we're at the point where my wife and I both agree with everything in the agreement, but her attorney does not. He wants her to go after me for more money, but she does not wish to. He is now making it very difficult for us to reach an agreement, as he is essentially now always "unavailable" when my wife tries to reach him, a week will go by and he he'll finally arrange for them to talk. He's refusing to allow my wife to sign the agreement and making requests that my wife is not asking for, nor wants. She and I both just want to sign and be done with this mess.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to deal with a lawyer that won't listen? Can we just draft up an agreement on our own and file it with the courts? Do we really need an attorney at this point, giving we each know exactly what we want to agree on, heck, we even have the agreement.
Thank you!
My wife an I are going through a divorce, we've been separated for over a year. We have each retained a lawyer to represent us. There have been issues in the past that prevented us from working together on a settlement. Recently my wife an I have agreed to put our differences to the side and work together to reach an agreement for the sake of our future sanity and our child.
My attorney had drafted up an agreement based on the discussions I've had with my wife and sent them to her attorney. So far, we have gone back and made adjustments twice. Now we're at the point where my wife and I both agree with everything in the agreement, but her attorney does not. He wants her to go after me for more money, but she does not wish to. He is now making it very difficult for us to reach an agreement, as he is essentially now always "unavailable" when my wife tries to reach him, a week will go by and he he'll finally arrange for them to talk. He's refusing to allow my wife to sign the agreement and making requests that my wife is not asking for, nor wants. She and I both just want to sign and be done with this mess.
Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to deal with a lawyer that won't listen? Can we just draft up an agreement on our own and file it with the courts? Do we really need an attorney at this point, giving we each know exactly what we want to agree on, heck, we even have the agreement.
Thank you!