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Originally Posted by MotherLover
Here's the situation.
I have a friend who has an ongoing child custody/visitation case going. He hires an attorney, pays the attorney, and all looks well. Next thing you know the attorney's son dies and she immediately goes into reclusion. She doesn't return his calls, moves her office to her home and almost disappears.
Last Wednesday there was a hearing scheduled. My friend calls her up on Tuesday to confirm and she tells him no that she is getting a continuance. Everything still sounds good, except they went ahead and had the hearing. They determined child support, visitation, etc without his or his attorney being there. They stuck it to home so bad that she actually had her attorney amend it because she felt sorry for him.
My question is this: Is there any legal action that can be taken to a)get his money back from the attorney b)reverse or amend the decision because of negligence of his attorney
I know there's a lawyer or two on here, but I'm curious of the great mind pools thoughts on this.
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1st, use the link luv provided to contact the mo bar and file a complaint (which will put tremendous pressure on the lawyer to correct the situation)...
then contact the lawyer and demand to know what malpractice insurance company the lawyer uses and contact them with a claim of malpractice (even more pressure to correct the situation or face big problems with the insurance company)...
then see what pittsie's colleague comes up wrt advice on how to proceed with the divorce case (my guess is to get another lawyer to reopen the judgment or appeal it, but he'll know for sure)...
most important, don't worry about it too much, it can be fixed i'm pretty sure...