CHOOCHOODOLLZ
01-21-2009, 09:08 AM
I hired an attorney to prove my status as my deceased husband's common-law wife , admisnistrator of his estate & to help me gain visitation of our 2 children that his parents are withholding from me when a court had awarded me visitition with 2yrs ago. My husband and I were married for 10yrs , divorced(3/06) and got back together(4/06) within 1 month of the divorce. And had been living together ever since. We had our 3rd child in 11/06.
This atttorney did not file anything he claimed he was going to for 7 months. Then I get a call from him 2 weeks ago. ASking me if he could go ahead and sign my name to a court order. I stated I was uncomfortable with that and would like to know what the order stated. He spoke quickly and stated it is the same agreement as what we were asking for. I demanded a copy of the order which I received the day after he filed the order that he signed my name to.
The order was not anything we had discussed and it was something I would never sign. When I spoke to the attorney upon receiving the order, he simply stated that if I would not have allowed him to sign the order that he would have dropped me. So now with him signing that order he gave my inlaws all of my husband's life ins, pension & annuity leaving me and our youngest child(I have custody of) with nothing and no visitation with our 2 older children. Is what he did legal? I never gave him power of attorney or any kind of written consent to sign my name on anything. This happend last week. What should I do? I cannot afford to hire another attorney for I barely make enough at work.
This atttorney did not file anything he claimed he was going to for 7 months. Then I get a call from him 2 weeks ago. ASking me if he could go ahead and sign my name to a court order. I stated I was uncomfortable with that and would like to know what the order stated. He spoke quickly and stated it is the same agreement as what we were asking for. I demanded a copy of the order which I received the day after he filed the order that he signed my name to.
The order was not anything we had discussed and it was something I would never sign. When I spoke to the attorney upon receiving the order, he simply stated that if I would not have allowed him to sign the order that he would have dropped me. So now with him signing that order he gave my inlaws all of my husband's life ins, pension & annuity leaving me and our youngest child(I have custody of) with nothing and no visitation with our 2 older children. Is what he did legal? I never gave him power of attorney or any kind of written consent to sign my name on anything. This happend last week. What should I do? I cannot afford to hire another attorney for I barely make enough at work.