dynomight77 said:What is the name of your state? NJ
has anyone ever used one of those prepaid legal services? just wondering about anyones experiences. i just talked to one and it sounded pretty good but i am wary**************....
Yes, I am currently signed up with them. It is not bad, plus you can cancel it at anytime. The lawyer I was referred to has been great, plus if I need to hire him for court, I get a dicount on the fees.dynomight77 said:What is the name of your state? NJ
has anyone ever used one of those prepaid legal services? just wondering about anyones experiences. i just talked to one and it sounded pretty good but i am wary**************....
Sorry to hear you had a bad experience!nextwife said:IT's sort of a "crap shoot" in that you are hiring the SERVICE, rather than the individual Lawyer. So you get assigned whoever is available that is sercing that area at that time for them. I've talked to reps from some - they have no idea what vendors they'd use for services (process service, title services, etc.), whether the venders they do use for related services are competitive or not, and so on.
TO me, it's like a Medical Group. If I don't know in advance that a doctor I'd want is part of that group/clinic, and that I'd have access to them, I wouldn't want to be stuck using that group.
I used a service during my initial custody proceedings when I was Pro Se. It did provide much in the way of consultations over the phone...however, there were still aspects which a retained attorney would need to be privy to in order to competently advise/direct.dynomight77 said:What is the name of your state? NJ
has anyone ever used one of those prepaid legal services? just wondering about anyones experiences. i just talked to one and it sounded pretty good but i am wary**************....
Whyte Noise said:My personal experience with pre-paid legal (actual name of the company) was crap. Sure, the sales pitch sounded great, and my husband was wanting to do a custody/visitation/child support mod, so we paid the $26 a month. We were suposed to get a free consult with an attorney from a "top family law firm" in Missouri. Shyeah, right. This attorney was a local attorney. The "free consult" we were to get because of being pre-paid legal clients cost us $50 before we walked out of his door after the consult was done. He wanted a $500 to $1,000 retainer that we didn't have, so told him that we'd be back in touch if we came up with the money and decided to retain him. He wrote my husband letters over the next couple of months, "reminding" him that if he wanted to retain his services he needed to pay the retainer. THEN, we got a bill for the time this attorney spent writing the letter to try and solicit my husband's business! I posted about that here, but it was in 2002 and I can't get the thread to show in a search. He wasn't an attorney in a "top law firm" as stated by the pre-paid legal rep, he was a local schister who, upon checking him out, my husband decided he wouldn't want representing him in kangaroo court, much less a real one.
Pre-paid legal said we'd get "unlimited consultations" with an attorney at an 800 number, when in fact, that 800 number was just a lawyer referral service and they had no actual attorneys there at all.
We were going to be charged $200 for the "free" will we were supposed to get with the package.
It goes on and on, but you get the idea.
I've heard some people have had success with them, but I can only speak from my personal experience and I wouldn't ever use them again.