I was most definitely railroaded by this attorney.in 2000 i hired him to take care of my divorce precedings. At first i was satisfied with his work. We went to family court, i was granted alimony and a 1985 camaro. I was declared disabled in 1999 due to bipolar/manic depression along with physical problems.
From 2002 i really took ill, dr discovers i have a brain tumor and i have to have surgery.in the meantime i wasn't well enough to get my husband into court for fianlizing. I had designated my mother Power of Attorney just in case something went wrong with my sugery. She's in charge of my money and most of important decisions. I had loaned my husband the car may 10th right after getting home from the hospital. He claimed he needed it be-cause his truck needed repairs.
Well gettin back to health, it took me quite some time. I had filed for divorce on physical cruelty, and i also had adultry and habitual drunkeness.in the mean-
time before i could get the proceedings started to get things finalized, my husband countersued based on one year separation. Well for some reason my attorney just seemed to let the importance of the outcome (which was going to sum up the last 12 years of my life) not be that much of a concern for him.
Prior to my marriage in 1994 i had been raising my son and trying to hold down 3 jobs just to make ends meet. 4 1/2 years pass and i just knew i would be entitled to something.
I owned the house for 6 years before i married the last time. Well during all this time and waiting i would call and leave messages for clyde to call, i hadn't a clue as to where any of this was going.
The issue: equitable division of the property. I never got any of my calls returned, i left messages with his secretary, on the answering machine still NOTHING.
The first monday in november was my divorce hearing. I was not once notified by mail, phone call or anything untill the night before which was on a sunday.
Clyde even tried to argue with me that i had been. Nope. I never got replies from anyone. After talking with him i knew then i was doomed. I had no time to get in contact with my witnesses.
My mom had power of attorney and was key witness to the issues about the house. (it was she that help me purchase the house in 1988)
Monday morn we are in a room, round table and chairs. Steve and his attorney in the other. Clyde didn't do anything but go back and forth between us telling me to decrease my alimony in half or the judge that was there and in such a good mood probably was stop it completely.
Hello! Clyde undoubtly was thinking more in steve's behalf than mine and i'm on disabilty. Ok later on (which was last week) I was really bent out of shape all because i had been chasing clyde down, calling him, time again and again no return calls, finally catching him at the courthouse, i sent word into the solicitors office, "hey this is the last straw" i had already gotten passed the aggravation i was getting mad.
The man didn't care to hear me out, steve paid him off, he got something out of this break up, and didn't mind a bit about bragging about it. Well when he came out we talked very briefly, told me i was lucky i got alimony and i asked him to meet me at his office when he left the courthouse and he agreed to. Well that was another lie.
He never showed up. I start trying to reach him by phone, no results, i ride by his office no show. Well come the following thursday i went to his office told his stand-by secretary i wanted to see him, she replies he's with a client, (which must have been another unimportant client cause clyde walked out the front door, didn't even look my way, and went outside to talk with another person about purchasing his ruck.
I really got mad then, too mad to sit there and wait any longer to talk with this jerk so i told the recept. I would definitely be back the next morning and i was. He tried to tell me i agreed to let steve keep the car that he had borrowed, WRONG i have been trying for two years to get it back.
Well steve was ordered in the divorce hearing to have the house and land appraised and he had to be served for contempt for not doing so. Well clyde proceeded to tell me he was at the residence when the appraiser was there, but i was never notified so i could be there. Clyde made all my decisions, but the decisions were lies and all in favor of steve.
I know that a piece of land does not depreciate.in 1997 the land appr. At 16000.000 now it goes for 10000.00. According to the house (mind you befor i left it happened to be a beautiful home. It supposively depreciated 30,000.00. Well considering steve tore the inside out, tore out a wall took down cabinets which were stained, ended up being painted white with a brush that looks like something a two year old would do. I took some pictures of the inside of the house to the office with me and told clyde that the outside of the house was the house i left, but the inside had been demolished and all that was done so there wouldn't be any equity. I made him compare the pictures to the pictures in the appraisal. But according to clyde i had lost my mind!
I told him i needed back the alimony i started out getting and my car. Clyde wants $850.00 to do this. Hahaha. The house and land ended up appraising at $40,000.00 but there was no equity and there was no such thing of steve buying my half out. My home was fully furnished way before i ever knew steve existed. All i got was my mom's exercising bicycle, some old record albums, and one wall hanging that was mom's also.
I think this case should be reopened and done over. I told clyde due to my bipolar disorder and all the health problems that i am not qualified to make drastic decisions about anything of importance on my own. Clyde actual-ly thought i wanted to pull one over on the courts but its the truth.
He said he had experienced a couple of cases like what i had just informed him of and kinda laughed it off like it was a joke of some kind. This so-called attorney costed me (with the help of my parents cause i just couldn't pay it all) i actually thought when i first talked with clyde that he was going to fight for me, he knew i would not be able to work, i want my car returned cause it was awrded to me but because clyde says itsa a piece of junk leave it be.
I told him it was in good condition when steve came and borrowed it and i didn't care if he had to push it back to me
I still wanted it back. So. The home i worked for, and the home my only son grew up in and was there until he graduated high school, is no longer my concern. Well, clyde is history for me too.
He lied, he made me believe this was going to happen in my favor and all when the only thing he did for me was talk me out of everything and into nothing. The only reason clyde pushed steve back into court was because once again steve was in contempt for not paying clydes fees from nov. This is what really takes the cake, i have to go by the house to locate steve, call clydes investigator on his mobile and tell him that steve is at home, come on and serve him.
I'm upset over the outcome, steve was the abuser, he let me know he didn't want a sickiln for a wife, he couldn't get passed anything but just what he wanted. I am trying really hard to keep myself together. I have to take high dollar medications for this bipolar and other problems, can't function half the time, and i have an attorney that swears he done a good job for me, and tries really hard to convince me i am soooo lucky to be getting alimony.
I think its a crying shame that he'll bust his butt to get a murderer out of jail on bond, but he doesn't give a hoot about a woman who lived in an abusive relationship, with only one option and that was to leave before the man killed me, clyde made the decision for my alimony to be reduced by half (which was $200 a month, (one prescription costs 235.00 alone and that only one out of five more i have to have evry month.
I would not advise any woman to want clyde to represent them, he's crooked. He loves to help out the murderers, and could care less about an abused woman with child or not. I will not stand good to his word. Says one thing and does the entire opposite of what he said he was going to do.
I need some advise on what i can do (if anything) i'm thinking seriously about reporting my car stolen and have steve and his live in arrested.
May 10th until now has been a long time but i just recently found out where my car is at.
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