I want to bring up an issue I had with my wife's lawyer.
First, few points to give you the context.
1. I did not see lawyer prior to announcing to my ex that I want a divorce. Nor did I do any kind of financial planning or hiding assets or anything else of that kind. I was under impression that we'd be able to work out a deal ourselves. However, I did think over a financial offer to her. In retrospect it was below than what she was entitled to by law, but not considerably. However I did not know any legal standards at the time.
2. Ex- asked me to put the offer on paper and I started working on separation agreement.
3. Ex- immediately went to lawyer and came back asking for more. I went on to speak to a lawyer too and educate myself on legal standards. I was not impressed with the first lawyer and continued to search for another one.
4. Ex- continued to pressure me into making sep. agreement asap. However I realized that my initial offer was not compatible with the law so I was spending time trying to make it work while staying withing roughly the same amount of money.
5. It so happened that one of the lawyer I was recommended was already employed by my ex-. (of course I did not know it then). So I called but instead of being told that they can't help me they told me the lawyer will call back. It might be a whole week passed by with me calling them and them telling me the same BS before I had a chat with my ex- during which I learned they are not going to call me back.
(This would be roughly 10-13 days from me asking for divorce)
It turns out that during that same week as my ex- grew exceeding anxious about me not giving her the Sep Agreement (which I drafted to some extent, but wanted to review with a lawyer) her lawyer was bullshitting her, pressuring into suing me asap, because, apparently otherwise I could do all kind of funny things to hide money, mortgage the house, or other shenanigans, or may be even already doing. Instead I was waiting for that mf lawyer to call me back.
So sue me she did.
My question is, did her lawyer do something unethical here or that's just part of the trade? Don't they HAVE to tell me they can't represent me, rather than giving me false "we'll call you back"?
I would love to see the lawyer's ass kicked for that stunt.
First, few points to give you the context.
1. I did not see lawyer prior to announcing to my ex that I want a divorce. Nor did I do any kind of financial planning or hiding assets or anything else of that kind. I was under impression that we'd be able to work out a deal ourselves. However, I did think over a financial offer to her. In retrospect it was below than what she was entitled to by law, but not considerably. However I did not know any legal standards at the time.
2. Ex- asked me to put the offer on paper and I started working on separation agreement.
3. Ex- immediately went to lawyer and came back asking for more. I went on to speak to a lawyer too and educate myself on legal standards. I was not impressed with the first lawyer and continued to search for another one.
4. Ex- continued to pressure me into making sep. agreement asap. However I realized that my initial offer was not compatible with the law so I was spending time trying to make it work while staying withing roughly the same amount of money.
5. It so happened that one of the lawyer I was recommended was already employed by my ex-. (of course I did not know it then). So I called but instead of being told that they can't help me they told me the lawyer will call back. It might be a whole week passed by with me calling them and them telling me the same BS before I had a chat with my ex- during which I learned they are not going to call me back.
(This would be roughly 10-13 days from me asking for divorce)
It turns out that during that same week as my ex- grew exceeding anxious about me not giving her the Sep Agreement (which I drafted to some extent, but wanted to review with a lawyer) her lawyer was bullshitting her, pressuring into suing me asap, because, apparently otherwise I could do all kind of funny things to hide money, mortgage the house, or other shenanigans, or may be even already doing. Instead I was waiting for that mf lawyer to call me back.
So sue me she did.
My question is, did her lawyer do something unethical here or that's just part of the trade? Don't they HAVE to tell me they can't represent me, rather than giving me false "we'll call you back"?
I would love to see the lawyer's ass kicked for that stunt.
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