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Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 7:51 am Subject: Discovery process

I'm a little freaked out by this discovery process--I've never experienced it before. Shocked

The situation is that this lawyer is (I think) attempting to sue my husband for a bill that he charged after we were finished with him. My husband had retained him for a family law case, he sucked, and we were done with him. A few weeks later, he sent a bill for work he did not do as well as a charge for $500 to "replenish our account". Since he didn't do any of the work he said and we did not plan on using him again, we informed him that we were not paying it. In October, he served my husband with a bill which we disputed. Last Friday, my husband got officially served with the "Notice to take deposition under bill of discovery" and we have no idea what this means. It is asking for my husbands W2's, income tax returns, and his bank account information (statements and account numbers). Do we have to give this up if they don't have a judgement against us? Can they go in our account and take money without a judgement? The main issue is that this was my husband's attorney, not mine. My husband got laid off in April of 2007, and we made the decision that he play Mr. Mom until our youngest started school. So, he has no income coming in at all. He has his own checking account that has a balance of 0 dollars and 0 cents. He is an authorized user one of my checking accounts--but it's the one that all my money goes into. If need be, I'll take him off the account or move all my money to the other account, but I'd like to prevent giving up the info on either of my accounts if at all possible. We have three kids and I'm the only one working, so I'm worried we're going to get screwed.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:05 am Subject:

I hate to tell you this but you are going to need another attorney to fight this. You probably have a community property law in your state. The only way to protect your assetts is to get divorced and I am sure that is not an option! What state are you in? Did he get a judgement against you without you being notified?

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:19 am Subject:

We're in KY, and I'm pretty sure we don't have a community property law. I don't think there was a judgement--but I'm not sure how to find out.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:23 am Subject:

I would suggest checking with court clerk's office first.

Posted: Mon Apr 14, 2008 8:27 am Subject:

These are usually filed with the County.

Guest · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:07 am Subject:

why are you freaked about discovery? c dollaR?

Guest · Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 4:09 am Subject:

why do you people act like you dont know why you owe money? very strange? pay your debts you will feel better when you meet your maker..cdollar..quit trying to get out of debts you and your husband owe..this is now right!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 5:35 am Subject:

Guest, did you even read the original post? Would YOU pay someone who charged you for services that were not rendered?

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 7:42 am Subject:

If the contract (be it written or oral) states that they will (provide stated service) for (x dollar amount) and they do not provide said service they have already voided the contract by dishonoring it.

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:04 am Subject:

Not sure why people on here have to be so darn hateful! I don't know why they can't just GROW A PAIR and quit hiding behind a Guest posting.

Anyway, it tunes out my husband was Improperly Served, so we were able to dispute the amount. And we DON'T owe it.

Posted: Mon Apr 28, 2008 8:48 am Subject: Guest Is Back, And I Missed Him! Not!!

LOL!

Our mysterious and anonymous "Guest" is back. What, has it been a couple of weeks since he last posted? Or did I miss some of the "words of wisdom" spewing forth from him?

Still, he is sticking to the pattern I noted earlier: posts hot and heavy for a week, fades out for another few weeks to a month, then comes back posting more garbage. Only to repeat himself with posting the same old "pay your bills" and "to heck with validation" nonsense, again and again. He might want to stick around and read some of our responses to his garbage; he might learn something and stop constantly repeating himself.

Oh, I forgot, guest must not be paying his bill for Internet service, that's why he fades out for a while. No Internet and not way to get to the public library in order to use the Internet there.

Get some new material guest! This routine is old!

Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 5:36 am Subject:

Please nobody respond to this "guest", I'll PM a mod to have the post deleted as it violates the TOS. Guest, personal attacks are not permitted. But then again the guest should already realize it because the guest was a registered member before they were banned for something very similar.

Posted: Wed May 07, 2008 3:29 am Subject:

I am only gonna say this once,if guest cannot make a point on topic without resorting to personal attacks you will not be allowed to continue posting.I am sorry that our original poster had to put up with this garbage just to get help from us.

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