Cut your losses and move on just like any man would!!I am in California. I have changed attorneys few times and have paid them a lot of money over my four years divorce. My husband has made a lot more money than I do. My current attorney said that I cannot ask for legal fees for the money I paid my former attorneys because they did not file a Borson motion. Is that correct? Majority of my attorney fees over four years are paid to my former attorneys. We are at final stage of this divorce. What can I do at this point?
Wot's a Borson motion?I am in California. I have changed attorneys few times and have paid them a lot of money over my four years divorce. My husband has made a lot more money than I do. My current attorney said that I cannot ask for legal fees for the money I paid my former attorneys because they did not file a Borson motion. Is that correct? Majority of my attorney fees over four years are paid to my former attorneys. We are at final stage of this divorce. What can I do at this point?
Go back to the previous attorneys and ask them to file a Borson motion so they can get paid? They'll quickly tell you if that's an option.I am in California. I have changed attorneys few times and have paid them a lot of money over my four years divorce. My husband has made a lot more money than I do. My current attorney said that I cannot ask for legal fees for the money I paid my former attorneys because they did not file a Borson motion. Is that correct? Majority of my attorney fees over four years are paid to my former attorneys. We are at final stage of this divorce. What can I do at this point?
I'll let you in on a little secret: In CA, FL and NY, the woman is used to getting what she WANTS no matter how rediculous her demands are!!Go back to the previous attorneys and ask them to file a Borson motion so they can get paid? They'll quickly tell you if that's an option.
But why have you changed attorneys 'a few times'? Unless your attorney turns out to be a total horse's a##, it's usually better to stick with one attorney (sometimes it's better even if he IS an idiot). Even then, it's just not plausible that you got sequential idiots for attorneys and had to change 'a few times'. If I were the husband, I'd object to paying your attorneys fees by arguing that you artificially inflated the attorneys' expenses by regularly switching attorneys.
Further, there's no guarantee that you're going to collect legal fees even if you hadn't inflated them. My income was substantially higher than my ex's but the court ruled that we were each responsible for our own attorney's fees. From the people I've talked to, that's reasonably common unless one person has very low income.
Just in case anyone is reading this and tempted to take it seriously, that is, of course, absurd.I'll let you in on a little secret: In CA, FL and NY, the woman is used to getting what she WANTS no matter how rediculous her demands are!!
I agree 100% with BALI - add Arizona to your list BH.Just in case anyone is reading this and tempted to take it seriously, that is, of course, absurd.