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civilavicate

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Before this matter I respected and trusted my attny with all my affairs. Never questioning his motives and trusting his methods.

However, in this matter I am very concerned.

My attny was informed of a pending case against my x-durring my divorce, this matter was in another state, and I was concerned about a lean being placed on the home I recieved durring the divorce.

This was in 1999

Since the div. he has repersented me on the collection of backsupport, and a possiable increase, however his best effords were not applyed, ( he did not request payrecords or tax records to determine childsupport)

When a body attachment was issued the back payment, was forwarded to the state childsupport collection. My attny, filed suit
against them on my behalf, since he did all the work to collect this.

The state did not release the $, my attny filed a contempt order.

The state steped in and begain handling my affairs, along with my attny, they obtained payrecords and tax records, had my attny requested these records durring the other cases, my support would have been increased from 40.00 wk 2 children to 793.00 month, the financial hardship caused forclosure on my home.

I recieved a back Judgement for 12,000 that was only going back over a 7mth peorid.

Without my concent or knowlege, my attny took the lady who suide my x-husband as a client, Using our client-attny relationship to the advantage of his new client.

He has filed suite against, my x-hub, me and the state. He is going to force the sale of my x-s land, to have his other client paid. He was going to have my claim be considered first, aslong as it was for 2000.00 but when the state claimed that it should be more 12,000 he changed his tune, he requested that I bring the standing order to him for review, so I did, I kept him previe to all matters concerning this. this is when he discovered that the amount was much higher, the delay cost me time allowing him to file for his client, before the ammendment could be concidered.

I did not discover that she was his client until 3 days before court.
Opon my questioning him at to his relationship with the woman suing me, he let me go do to a conflict of intreast, on sun before the day of court he came to my home, I let him know that I did not concent to this at all, that it would hurt me if he step down at the last min. and I was his client first, I as him to have the case continued, to give me time to think...I felt so violated, and hurt,,because I had the upmost trust in this person..he offed to collect the 12,000 but he wanted a 3'd of it. I have not entered into any agreement concerning our future affairs, except that he would have it continued, against what he wanted to do. And thats it in a nut-shell, I am emotionaly, and financialy hurt over this.
 


LegalBeagle

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You need to report him to the State Bar immediately. If the case against you has not gone to trial yet, then you need to retain another attorney and have him thrown off the case.
 
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Elliotg

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I agree 100% with the Legal Beagle. Lawyers like that give us all a bad reputation.
 
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civilavicate

Guest
Thank you

I have taken the steps nessary to take care of this matter, This is a small town, I have requested forms from the Board of Professional Ethics, When I received them, without giving his name, I made copys of this form and gave them to agencys that would benifit from this information, mostly concerning domestic violence cases and child abuse and neglect cases, their will be a review of how each case was handled, I have been apointed to this board to assist in the accountability process. Maby this will help assist members within our comunity, (Knowlege is Power) by educating others we can prevent this from happening again. My attny is not the only one in this town with questionable ethics.

Thanks again: Everything happens for a reason, in this case maby others will benifit from my mistakes..take care..
 

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