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IggyKat
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I hope this post is not too complicated for someone to help me with, and will try to be as consise as possible.
Hired a lawyer to help settle a dispute regarding ownership of property. They were actually legally entitled 1/32 value of property, it only amounted to about $1,400 ea. for her and 2 sisters each. They wanted to fight it and try to get 1/2, even after their own lawyer told them it was probably usless for them. BTW, we paid them off $2,000 5 months ago, and final papers are not yet completed to free us up to sell property.
Lawyer told us case should be complete in 6, maybe up to 12 months. We paid him retainer fee, then process of petition to partition was begun.
First off, he was senior partner, and passed our case over to a new guy, fresh out of law school. The last 19 months have been a nightmare of mistakes on his part; some that WE had to point out to him ourselves.
We have caught him in an untold amount of lies, and I have every email passed between us. After we had been into this months and months we couldn't fire them as we could not afford another retainer fee, and risk going on and on even MORE months until resolved.
The incompetence has been unreal. A lot of the misery was all the steps that needed to be taken, were taken weeks and weeks to complete, when some were easily able to be completed in a day or two; excuses ranged from, "papers got misplaced", "forgot to call" other lawyer, completing & submitting "incorrect legal forms to courthouse", you get the picture. Many even concerned "other lawyer not returning calls for weeks)
Now, we live in a small town, where all the lawyers are buddy buddy, and hang out at the local country club. This HAS to be a lie, because I'm sure they would not treat one of their own this way. Of course no way I could prove that, legally.
All this is bad enough, but I was/is in finanical hell, because of all the work we did on property before this "b$&*h" came crawling out of the woodwork, knowing exactly what we were doing to repair the house to sell. Now, I am very close to bankruptcy, if it were not for the incredible kindness of family, would have already been. They cannot, of course go on and on doing that, and we would not ask.
Do we have any recourse at all here? Maybe at least file a complaint and have it on their file? Or is that useless?
If you've read this mess thus far, any advice?
Thanks,
Gayle
I hope this post is not too complicated for someone to help me with, and will try to be as consise as possible.
Hired a lawyer to help settle a dispute regarding ownership of property. They were actually legally entitled 1/32 value of property, it only amounted to about $1,400 ea. for her and 2 sisters each. They wanted to fight it and try to get 1/2, even after their own lawyer told them it was probably usless for them. BTW, we paid them off $2,000 5 months ago, and final papers are not yet completed to free us up to sell property.
Lawyer told us case should be complete in 6, maybe up to 12 months. We paid him retainer fee, then process of petition to partition was begun.
First off, he was senior partner, and passed our case over to a new guy, fresh out of law school. The last 19 months have been a nightmare of mistakes on his part; some that WE had to point out to him ourselves.
We have caught him in an untold amount of lies, and I have every email passed between us. After we had been into this months and months we couldn't fire them as we could not afford another retainer fee, and risk going on and on even MORE months until resolved.
The incompetence has been unreal. A lot of the misery was all the steps that needed to be taken, were taken weeks and weeks to complete, when some were easily able to be completed in a day or two; excuses ranged from, "papers got misplaced", "forgot to call" other lawyer, completing & submitting "incorrect legal forms to courthouse", you get the picture. Many even concerned "other lawyer not returning calls for weeks)
Now, we live in a small town, where all the lawyers are buddy buddy, and hang out at the local country club. This HAS to be a lie, because I'm sure they would not treat one of their own this way. Of course no way I could prove that, legally.
All this is bad enough, but I was/is in finanical hell, because of all the work we did on property before this "b$&*h" came crawling out of the woodwork, knowing exactly what we were doing to repair the house to sell. Now, I am very close to bankruptcy, if it were not for the incredible kindness of family, would have already been. They cannot, of course go on and on doing that, and we would not ask.
Do we have any recourse at all here? Maybe at least file a complaint and have it on their file? Or is that useless?
If you've read this mess thus far, any advice?
Thanks,
Gayle