justalilbit08
Junior Member
What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? CA
Please help!!!
my situation is that my soon to be ex and I went into my lawyers office on Jan 29, 2009 to review, revise and sign Marital Settlement Agreement and associated docs (that is how the bill reads). So to my knowledge once we signed that it was good to go and ready to be filed. i come to find out that the court records show that it was not filed until March 26, 2009 that is almost 2 months later. Then it was kicked Back due to errors on May 13, 2009. and was not re-filed over a month later on June 18, 2009. I was never made aware of any of this i had to find out on my own. initially i was told it takes 6-8 weeks after it is filed to get it back from the courts so i just let the system do what it was supposed to. it has been over 6 months since the final doc had been signed and i never received a phone call nor anyone from my attorneys office ever let me know that one it was filed 2 months later and 2 it got kicked back because of their mistake, but my lawyers office has had no problem billing me over 2,000.00 dollars just for January for preparing the doc and supposedly filing it. also on Nov 11, 2009 we had a child support case and everything had come to an agreement. the minute orders where written and my attorney just needed to draft up the order. well on my bill it shows that on Feb 27, 2009 my attorney charged me 200.00 because they prepared the findings and orders after hearing, SUPPOSEDLY. i went to the court house yesterday to get a copy of the support order and what do you know, i was not able to locate one. i spoke to the clerk and we looked in my file the minute orders for that hearing was in there but no support orders. so the clerk checked the computer to see if it was in the system some where and it was not. i look through the copies of what my attorney had mailed me and it was not there either. so now i am realizing that it was never done and i have been charged for it and this is a problem. i have called my lawyers office several times in the last 3 weeks i have received one phone call back it was a para legal i explained my situation and he had no answers said someone would get back to me no one has, oh ya and he charged me 45.00 dollars for that phone call. no one is returning my calls i have paid over 6000.00 to my attorney and i should of been divorced months ago. i don't understand, they are not listening to me and do not care. they have taking advantage of me and have basically stole from me because i have been paying for services that where either not done or got done 6 months later.
SO HELP ME PLEASE WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE MY ATTORNEY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS, GETTING SOME MONEY BACK WOULD BE NICE AS WELL I DON'T FEEL THEY DESERVE MONEY FROM A SINGLE MOTHER OF 3 CHILDREN FOR SERVICES THEY DID NOT DO. THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE, FOR ALL YOUR ADVICE.
Please help!!!
my situation is that my soon to be ex and I went into my lawyers office on Jan 29, 2009 to review, revise and sign Marital Settlement Agreement and associated docs (that is how the bill reads). So to my knowledge once we signed that it was good to go and ready to be filed. i come to find out that the court records show that it was not filed until March 26, 2009 that is almost 2 months later. Then it was kicked Back due to errors on May 13, 2009. and was not re-filed over a month later on June 18, 2009. I was never made aware of any of this i had to find out on my own. initially i was told it takes 6-8 weeks after it is filed to get it back from the courts so i just let the system do what it was supposed to. it has been over 6 months since the final doc had been signed and i never received a phone call nor anyone from my attorneys office ever let me know that one it was filed 2 months later and 2 it got kicked back because of their mistake, but my lawyers office has had no problem billing me over 2,000.00 dollars just for January for preparing the doc and supposedly filing it. also on Nov 11, 2009 we had a child support case and everything had come to an agreement. the minute orders where written and my attorney just needed to draft up the order. well on my bill it shows that on Feb 27, 2009 my attorney charged me 200.00 because they prepared the findings and orders after hearing, SUPPOSEDLY. i went to the court house yesterday to get a copy of the support order and what do you know, i was not able to locate one. i spoke to the clerk and we looked in my file the minute orders for that hearing was in there but no support orders. so the clerk checked the computer to see if it was in the system some where and it was not. i look through the copies of what my attorney had mailed me and it was not there either. so now i am realizing that it was never done and i have been charged for it and this is a problem. i have called my lawyers office several times in the last 3 weeks i have received one phone call back it was a para legal i explained my situation and he had no answers said someone would get back to me no one has, oh ya and he charged me 45.00 dollars for that phone call. no one is returning my calls i have paid over 6000.00 to my attorney and i should of been divorced months ago. i don't understand, they are not listening to me and do not care. they have taking advantage of me and have basically stole from me because i have been paying for services that where either not done or got done 6 months later.
SO HELP ME PLEASE WHAT CAN I DO TO MAKE MY ATTORNEY ACCOUNTABLE FOR THEIR ACTIONS, GETTING SOME MONEY BACK WOULD BE NICE AS WELL I DON'T FEEL THEY DESERVE MONEY FROM A SINGLE MOTHER OF 3 CHILDREN FOR SERVICES THEY DID NOT DO. THANK YOU SO MUCH IN ADVANCE, FOR ALL YOUR ADVICE.
