Strange....

[mom2three]

What is the name of your state? Ohio, KY juridiction

..just an update..

The custody modification hearing was yesterday (remember where the father wants to take away our son due to my past drug use). Well, my lawyer and I were there, and so was the father...alone.

Judge: Sir, do you have an attorney?
Father: yes
Judge: Do you know where he is?
Father: no
Judge: Have....you called him?
Father: no
Judge: Perhaps you should do that.

So, the father calls his lawyers office. The secretary said that the lawyer should be in the building because he was in court all day. So the bailiff calls down to security and asks if he's seen said lawyer. Security said yes, but he was leaving the building! (whyyyyy is he leaving the building when he's supposed to be in court??)

The judge, who went into her chambers a bit, came back out (2 minutes after the call to the lawyer) and said that the lawyer's office called and said he was in a car accident.

Huh?? Is this a stall tactic??

The judge continued it to the 25th of this month. My lawyer is aggrevated (me too) and says he wants to see this accident report. He feels it's bogus. Do attorneys really do stuff like that (if in fact the accident was fake) to stall?

Grrr I am so frustrated. But, hey....no news is good news for me, ya know?

*sigh*

 

[MominNJ]

Yup

They sure do. I had a lawyer once, in the very beginning...picked him out of the phone book. Well, I guess he really didn't want to handle my case once it wasn't so cut and dried. I had to go to court one day and the day before his secretary calls me and says I need to wire him more money due to the fact that the case was getting so "involved" I did that and the next day he never showed up. My ex's attorney even called his office because he was getting really impatient and came back and said he wasn't able to get there because he was in the middle of some big trial over in criminal court. (This case was big... it got a lot of media attention at the time) Well the judge calls over to the criminal court and guess what? It wasn't even in session that day at all!
So the judge subpeonas the attorney to appear to answer why he did't show up. Attorney doesn't show up to that either. So I get in the mail one day a letter from the judge..some sort of court order...stating that the attorney had to return my money I gave him and also reimburse my ex's attorney for some amount of money. (I never dideceive that money)
But needless to say, I got a new attorney for the hearing that got adjourned that day. And come to find out a few months later, that first attorney got dis barred.
So, yeah. Unfortunately some attorneys are garbabge. And will lie. Is that a surprise?