hesthedevil
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What is the name of your state (only U.S. law)? Kentucky
I retained an attorney with a 3k retainer a year ago. I needed him to represent me against my ex (not married) with whom I have a child. We own a home, and we needed to set up visitation, child support, etc. We have been to court 4 5 or times, plus attended mediation. Court orders that were put into place guided me to allow my ex to take most of our stuff out of our home per our mediation agreement. I have also paid my attorney over 2k more. I also have a 4k bill that my attorney keeps harping me about.
This is the problem-at our last hearing (where my ex was facing contempt charges for refusing to pay the court-ordered house payments and child support), my ex's attorney (his 3rd) said the judge does not have subject matter jurisdiction.
From what I have learned here and online, family court does not SMJ over our case bc we were not married. So, this has all been wrong!
I feel very strung along by my attorney. Essentially, the only court order which has held up is the child support (which is in arrears, and we are supposed to go back to court on MOnday May 12th, as a continuance from the last hearing of contempt). I could have gotten child support without an attorney!
Shouldn't he have known that there was no SMJ to handle this in family court? Is this malpractice? I am not entertaining the idea of suing him, but I am curious how I can deal with him regarding these fees.
He is still charging me $175.00 per hour. I dropped a notice by his office a few weeks ago, and he charged me the minimum 15 minutes. Please help me!
I retained an attorney with a 3k retainer a year ago. I needed him to represent me against my ex (not married) with whom I have a child. We own a home, and we needed to set up visitation, child support, etc. We have been to court 4 5 or times, plus attended mediation. Court orders that were put into place guided me to allow my ex to take most of our stuff out of our home per our mediation agreement. I have also paid my attorney over 2k more. I also have a 4k bill that my attorney keeps harping me about.
This is the problem-at our last hearing (where my ex was facing contempt charges for refusing to pay the court-ordered house payments and child support), my ex's attorney (his 3rd) said the judge does not have subject matter jurisdiction.
From what I have learned here and online, family court does not SMJ over our case bc we were not married. So, this has all been wrong!
I feel very strung along by my attorney. Essentially, the only court order which has held up is the child support (which is in arrears, and we are supposed to go back to court on MOnday May 12th, as a continuance from the last hearing of contempt). I could have gotten child support without an attorney!
Shouldn't he have known that there was no SMJ to handle this in family court? Is this malpractice? I am not entertaining the idea of suing him, but I am curious how I can deal with him regarding these fees.
He is still charging me $175.00 per hour. I dropped a notice by his office a few weeks ago, and he charged me the minimum 15 minutes. Please help me!