I feel like giving up :-(
Hello everyone. Warning, this is gonna be a long rant. lol
*I'm frustrated with the process and pace of my bankruptcy case. I'm married, but filing alone. I did the free consultation with my now lawyer at the end of April. Hired her a week or two later. Hit a couple roadblocks here and there in the following weeks/months, but nothing major.
*My biggest complaint is the lack of communication and lack of progress from my lawyer and firm. I've had more contact with my lawyer's paralegal than my actual lawyer, and that's not saying much. 2/3 of my emails and calls to the paralegal are ignored. Had to send my lawyer an email once just to get some answers to some of my questions, and she forwarded the email to her paralegal and asked him to take care of it.
Delays on their end has delayed my case. My lawyer has gone AWOL lately, and nobody will tell me anything. Last month I was supposed to have a telephone conference with her, but I waited and waited and waited, and nothing. I missed my last bus home from work waiting for this call. It never happened (this is when she first went AWOL) and I was left sitting with with my cellphone in my hand for over an hour before I gave up. Turns out that she had cancelled the phone conference but NOBODY from her whole office EVER called me, the client, to inform me. How's that for communication?
I was told by the secretary that she left the office early that day due to sickness, and then I was told by the paralegal that she never actually came in to the office that day. Two different stories. (this was on a thursday) The paralegal told me she'd be back in the office on Monday. That Tuesday, the paralegal said she'd be out for the rest of the week. *I*ended up doing the phone conference with some lawyer in the firm that I have never even heard of. I still don't know if my lawyer is even back yet.*
Last week, I FINALLY went in and signed my petition (with a totally different paralegal I might add). This was last Saturday the 9th, and my petition has STILL yet to be filed! What the hell are they waiting for?????
*Meanwhile, I'm getting creditor and collection calls up the wazoo, as are my parents. I'm frustrated beyond belief. At this rate, I won't even be discharged by Christmas. Needless to say, this is creating alot of stress and arguments between me and my husband.*
He's frustrated with the progress of things and the way things are being handled. Plus, half of the $1400 lawyers fees was his money, so he's even more aggravated. He feels that his hard earned money is being wasted cause very little progress is being made and they're dragging their feet getting anything done.
*I thought I'd be filed a long *long time ago. I'm so stressed, it's eating me up, and causing problems in my marriage. It's too late to back out now, cause when I hired my lawyers and started the petition, I stopped paying my creditors. I'm so far behind in payments, that if I was to quit the bankruptcy now, I'd never be able to catch up with my creditors. I have no choice but to continue on. People say that the light at the end of the tunnel is discharge. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll EVER see that light. I'm beginning to have very little faith in that.*
*I'm frustrated with the process and pace of my bankruptcy case. I'm married, but filing alone. I did the free consultation with my now lawyer at the end of April. Hired her a week or two later. Hit a couple roadblocks here and there in the following weeks/months, but nothing major.
*My biggest complaint is the lack of communication and lack of progress from my lawyer and firm. I've had more contact with my lawyer's paralegal than my actual lawyer, and that's not saying much. 2/3 of my emails and calls to the paralegal are ignored. Had to send my lawyer an email once just to get some answers to some of my questions, and she forwarded the email to her paralegal and asked him to take care of it.
Delays on their end has delayed my case. My lawyer has gone AWOL lately, and nobody will tell me anything. Last month I was supposed to have a telephone conference with her, but I waited and waited and waited, and nothing. I missed my last bus home from work waiting for this call. It never happened (this is when she first went AWOL) and I was left sitting with with my cellphone in my hand for over an hour before I gave up. Turns out that she had cancelled the phone conference but NOBODY from her whole office EVER called me, the client, to inform me. How's that for communication?
I was told by the secretary that she left the office early that day due to sickness, and then I was told by the paralegal that she never actually came in to the office that day. Two different stories. (this was on a thursday) The paralegal told me she'd be back in the office on Monday. That Tuesday, the paralegal said she'd be out for the rest of the week. *I*ended up doing the phone conference with some lawyer in the firm that I have never even heard of. I still don't know if my lawyer is even back yet.*
Last week, I FINALLY went in and signed my petition (with a totally different paralegal I might add). This was last Saturday the 9th, and my petition has STILL yet to be filed! What the hell are they waiting for?????
*Meanwhile, I'm getting creditor and collection calls up the wazoo, as are my parents. I'm frustrated beyond belief. At this rate, I won't even be discharged by Christmas. Needless to say, this is creating alot of stress and arguments between me and my husband.*
He's frustrated with the progress of things and the way things are being handled. Plus, half of the $1400 lawyers fees was his money, so he's even more aggravated. He feels that his hard earned money is being wasted cause very little progress is being made and they're dragging their feet getting anything done.
*I thought I'd be filed a long *long time ago. I'm so stressed, it's eating me up, and causing problems in my marriage. It's too late to back out now, cause when I hired my lawyers and started the petition, I stopped paying my creditors. I'm so far behind in payments, that if I was to quit the bankruptcy now, I'd never be able to catch up with my creditors. I have no choice but to continue on. People say that the light at the end of the tunnel is discharge. I'm beginning to wonder if I'll EVER see that light. I'm beginning to have very little faith in that.*
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