My mom hired a really cheap contractor who has messed up a lot of stuff in our house (she loves anything cheap). Please don’t recommend me going back to him.
He didn’t build the shower all the way up to the ceiling and the closet in the next room is exposed. What’s the fix for this?
Essentially, bars or other extracurriculars for people in their late twenties or early fourties. Also open to a place to meet single parent friends.
That includes friends and dating. Any good spots? My baby is about 1 years old. Classes are typically during the workweek so it’s hard to make them.
Posted this in a few places because I really need to figure this out and am looking for experienced opinions.
I switched attorneys for my custody/divorce case because my former attorney was a solo practitioner so every thing was being billed at a high rate (no paralegals). I am a newly single struggling mom buried in legal fees so I had to go elsewhere.
Previous attorney filed a custody petition and family offense petition in family court. In my area, divorce is done in the local “Supreme Court” but custody can be a separate case in family court (which it was/is, due to the family offense petition that had to be filed urgently). There is a return hearing in a few weeks where important, urgent matters need to be addressed. \*\*I told the new firm about this case after I sent them a retainer\*\*. The new firm confirmed the date via email and said they’d file a notice of appearance and it was on their Google Calendar. For weeks. Then today, the event got cancelled with no notice. Took hours to get through to them and they first said they “thought it was just a meeting with the attorney” even though it’s titled the hearing day/name/time. Then someone else said it’s because custody has a separate retainer. That’s fine but … NO ONE TOLD ME THAT! They apparently booked someone else for that slot. I have a remaining $2500 on my “divorce” retainer but they won’t let me use it to cover the hearing. I feel like this is bad business to not give me notice or tell me about the separate retainer and then just cancel on a single mom who is very stressed and financially strained.
I urgently need to file for relocation to the nearby suburbs so I and my daughter can live with my family during my parenting time (which right now is full-time), because I can’t afford this area with my legal fees but my rich husband can, and my lease ends in August. I have spoken to the firm and attorney 10+ times about the family court case and confirmed that it was happening and \*\*they repeatedly reassured me that relocation would be motioned at that case in less than 2 weeks\*\*.
So my question is: should I ask my former attorney to represent me again or show up pro se (if so, how can I prepare) or something else ? I feel like it looks like I’m crazy switching attorneys three times (though the family court judge doesn’t know about the switch because the new firm never filed a notice of appearance).
I am really frustrated. Hear me out.
I switched attorneys for my custody/divorce case because my former attorney was a solo practitioner so every thing was being billed at a high rate (no paralegals). I am a newly single struggling mom buried in legal fees so I had to go elsewhere.
Previous attorney filed a custody petition and family offense petition in family court. In my area, divorce is done in the local “Supreme Court” but custody can be a separate case in family court (which it was/is, due to the family offense petition that had to be filed urgently). There is a return hearing in a few weeks where important, urgent matters need to be addressed. I told the new firm about this case after I sent them a retainer. The new firm confirmed the date via email and said they’d file a notice of appearance and it was on their Google Calendar. For weeks. Then today, the event got cancelled with no notice. Took hours to get through to them and they first said they “thought it was just a meeting with the attorney” even though it’s titled the hearing day/name/time. Then someone else said it’s because custody has a separate retainer. That’s fine but … NO ONE TOLD ME THAT! They apparently booked someone else for that slot. I have a remaining $2500 on my “divorce” retainer but they won’t let me use it to cover the hearing. I feel like this is bad business to not give me notice or tell me about the separate retainer and then just cancel on a single mom who is very stressed and financially strained.
I urgently need to file for relocation to the nearby suburbs so I and my daughter can live with my family during my parenting time (which right now is full-time), because I can’t afford this area with my legal fees but my rich husband can, and my lease ends in August. I have spoken to the firm and attorney 10+ times about the family court case and confirmed that it was happening and they repeatedly reassured me that relocation would be motioned at that case in less than 2 weeks.
So my question is: should I ask my former attorney to represent me again or show up pro se? If so, how can I prepare?
NYC, NY.
I am really frustrated. Hear me out.
I switched attorneys for my custody/divorce case because my former attorney was a solo practitioner so every thing was being billed at a high rate (no paralegals). I am a newly single struggling mom buried in legal fees so I had to go elsewhere.
Previous attorney filed a custody petition and family offense petition in family court. In my area, divorce is done in the local “Supreme Court” but custody can be a separate case in family court (which it was/is, due to the family offense petition that had to be filed urgently). There is a return hearing in a few weeks. I told the new firm after I sent them a retainer. The new firm confirmed the date via email and said they’d file a notice of appearance and it was on their Google Calendar. For weeks. Then today, the event got cancelled with no notice. Took hours to get through to them and they first said they “thought it was just a meeting with the attorney” even though it’s titled the hearing day/name/time. Then someone else said it’s because custody has a separate retainer. That’s fine but … NO ONE TOLD ME THAT! They apparently booked someone else for that slot. I have a remaining $2500 on my “divorce” retainer but they won’t let me use it to cover the hearing. I feel like this is bad business to not give me notice or tell me about the separate retainer and then just cancel on a single mom who is very stressed and financially strained.
I urgently need to file for relocation to the suburbs so I and my daughter can live with my family during my parenting time (which right now is full-time), because I can’t afford this area with my legal fees but my rich husband can, and my lease ends in August. I have spoken to the firm and attorney 10+ times about the family court case and they confirmed that it was happening and that relocation would be motioned at the hearing, on that date and time.
So my question is: should I ask my former attorney to represent me again or show up pro se? If so, how can I prepare?
I am 9 months postpartum, going through a highly contentious custody battle/divorce, a nasty ex who walked out on us to go to rehab after secret substance abuse with no coordination for childcare, an enabling and villainizing ex’s family (especially my MIL), healing from relationship trauma, dealing with a smear campaign that had dire consequences, uncertain where me and my daughter are going to live and how I’ll afford it with the excessive legal fees from excessive involvement of lawyers plus a low salary in my city, and adjusting to being a single (new) mom around my friends who are all babied-up and married. I love my daughter and that’s the only positive in all of this.
Anyway, with all this going on, my focus at work has been terrible. I also have ADHD diagnosed, plus anxiety. I have a lot of friends at my job and love my bosses and the work. But I sort of stopped caring a bit because of every thing going on right now. Even to the point of forgetting about tasks I have to do, and watching TV at work. My boss pointed out that her boss said I have been making a lot of small mistakes/not conscientious enough. And that it takes me longer than usual to do things. She explained to him all that’s going on and he was super nice about it. I started bawling. She was so nice. But I’m so embarrassed. I feel like a baby that this is how I reacted to feedback.
How can I be kinder to myself? And be better at my job?
I’m postpartum 9 months, going through a highly contentious custody battle/divorce, healing from relationship trauma, dealing with a smear campaign that had dire consequences, uncertain where me and my daughter are going to live and how I’ll afford it with the excessive legal fees from excessive involvement of lawyers plus a low salary in my city, and adjusting to being a single (new) mom around my friends who are all babied-up and married. I love my daughter and that’s the only positive in all of this.
Anyway, with all this going on, my focus at work has been terrible. I also have ADHD diagnosed, plus anxiety. I have a lot of friends at my job and love my bosses and the work. But I sort of stopped caring a bit because of every thing going on right now. Even to the point of forgetting about tasks I have to do, and watching TV at work. My boss pointed out that her boss said I have been making a lot of small mistakes/not conscientious enough. And that it takes me longer than usual to do things. She explained to him all that’s going on and he was super nice about it. I started bawling. She was so nice. But I’m so embarrassed. I feel like a baby that this is how I reacted to feedback.
How can I be kinder to myself? And be better at my job?
I am exhausted and broke from this. My STBXH is delaying urgent child/spousal support by making my lawyer go through his lawyer rather than send it in the app which he is court-ordered to use. He’s doing it to my family too whenever they bring up something related to his behavior. Always threatening lawyers. It seems like a control thing and an attempt to twist the narrative that I’m being unreasonable. Anyone else deal with this and how?