holy cow! antlers you need to fire her @ss now! she already screwed up big time getting you in more a tough situation that was completely unnecessary. antlers, I'm urging you to look for another attorney. I went through this myself and the new (law firm as opposed to a single dirt-bag) attorney's *much* better and I have access to other attorneys in the firm as needed. Please do this now before the trial. I know you've invested money into her (like I did) but a one time cost of $3-5k is well worth it to have someone that's good, willing to work with you and won't drop the ball.
I really don't know what to do at this point. I've been working with this attorney for 8 and 1/2 months...so you can figure that I've got a ton of money invested in the case, via this attorney, already! I'll lose it all, for naught, if I fire her. I can't take a financial hit like that, especially now. She does seem to have some animosity towards me. As I said, I don't understand it. And 400 bucks for a 20 minute appraisal on my 2000 square foot home was a total screwin'...IMO. She came highly recommended, and is well known in this area for her litigation skills. I do feel like she dropped the ball on the child support thing, and I wouldn't be in that trouble if she had been on top of things like she should have been. She's taken zero responsibility for it. I want her to put the effort into my case like she has for some rather notable cases in this area. I am dependant on her to a huge degree. I'm going to attempt to communicate with her again regarding the poor relationship that I feel exists between she and I.
"Always go straight forward, and if you meet the devil, cut him in two and go between the pieces." - William Sturgis, clipper ship captain, 1830's.
