Please help...need MLC advice

[tpaschal]

Got a rather nasty surprise today. I called my L's office to tell them the result of me asking yesterday for H to pay some of the bills that piled up over the last 4-5 months (before temp. orders) when he wasn't giving us enough to live on. Said that H told me he didn't have any more money and wasn't going to pay them, and I'd better find a way to make the money he gives me stretch.

Even if I can find a way to cut and cut and cut costs to be able to pay back these bills a pittance at a time, there's no way I can bring my L bill current right now, so told them to go ahead and file the motion they had prepared to ask for interim attorney's fees. But the paralegal told me that if judge doesn't agree, L is saying he's going to withdraw from the case!

I am so angry. He said something along those lines a couple of weeks ago (that he couldn't work for free) and I told him that he knew from day one this was not a big money case, that even though H is a doctor, he's not a specialist and doesn't make huge money, and the only assets we had were our house, our two cars, and H's practice (which is a small private practice with no real hard assets.) Told L he knew from Day 1 that I was a stay at home mom with no rich family and no access to money except from H. Said that when we counterfiled (for adultery and cruel treatment) back in August, that part of the filing was a request for H to be responsible for L fees. Said that I assumed that meant that the judge would determine at the final settlement who was responsible for what. L never told me that I would have to come up with thousands of dollars in the meantime!

I am so p.o.'d.