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Date: Mon, 04/14/2008 - 07:51

Submitted by cdollar
on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 07:51

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


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?


lrhall41

Submitted by Frogpatch on Mon, 04/14/2008 - 08:05

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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!


lrhall41

Submitted by FloridaRon on Mon, 04/28/2008 - 08:48

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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.


lrhall41

Submitted by JCEMT on Wed, 04/30/2008 - 05:36

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