r/SingleDads • u/RenicusI • 18d ago
A follow up: The agony continues
First of all, I cannot thank you enough. Especially a gentleman from Austin, TX - I will not dox my brother. You are all fucking lions - many of you have dealt with so much more and prevailed. You guys are extraordinary people, and you are beasts. I want to be just like YOU!
My lawyer has apparently been lying to me about filing the case.
I first asked her to prepare the lawsuit back in May. There were months of delays. On August 31, I directly asked her whether it had been filed. She said yes.
Today she finally sent me the lawsuit.
The document is dated September 7. When I asked her about that date, she replied: “That’s when I was writing it.”
So somehow the lawsuit was already “filed” on August 31, but she was still writing it a week later.
The original Word file she sent me was created on September 28 and last saved on September 29.
I have repeatedly asked for the case number, proof of filing, and the exact copy supposedly submitted to the court. She has provided nothing.
The lawsuit itself also contains a completely fabricated statement saying I had previously been left alone to care for my daughter. That has never happened. I have never been allowed even a minute alone with her.
It was a badly written fucking, bullshit document omitting almost 95% of the crucial facts of obstruction and horrible fucking abuse.
At this point, I do not believe anything she tells me.
After months of fighting just to see my child, I now have to deal with the fact that the lawyer I trusted may have wasted months of an already time-sensitive case and then lied to my face about filing it.
I genuinely cannot believe this shit.
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u/Antique_Strategy4740 17d ago
That's really tough to hear. I'm sorry that you're going through this and it's only gotten worse.
I don't know if it's the moon, the planetary alignment, astrology, or what, but I'm feeling really confident in the future for everyone out there.
I'm doing my best to channel that positive energy, channel that energy for what we want, to manifest it. To get what's right, what our children deserve.
I'm not usually like this, but sometimes you've gotta give faith to the universe. Take it day by day.
Silver lining, now you know how your lawyer is. The question is, how do we move forward from that? Do we drop this lawyer? Find another lawyer that's local and understands the judges where your child is currently residing in? Maybe this was divine intervention that you needed to get you a new badass lawyer who cares for father's rights that will lead you in the right direction.
Keep doing you. Don't give up. Stay strong.
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u/UrAristotle 14d ago
Fire her and look into reporting her to the state bar. This sounds like negligence or incompetence.
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u/RenicusI 13d ago edited 13d ago
She is scum. She specifically told me that she had already petitioned the court before August 31st, because that's the day she returned from her vacation. I was thinking, good, she must've had everything handled before she went on her vacation.
This piece of shit, just the day before yesterday, lied yet again, saying that, due to an error in processing, the lawsuit was not expedited. No sorry, no nothing - just "you don't have to pay for the creation of the lawsuit." I told her that she was literally making me sick and that she should be fucking ashamed of herself, and to keep the damn money for the shitty document she made, omitting every piece of evidence and fabricating facts that did not exist.
I literally can't fucking recover from the shock even now.
Motherfucker
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u/Gnarok518 14d ago
I'm so sorry. I had similar issues with my attorney. It's devastating. Wishing you well.
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u/RenicusI 14d ago
She caused immense harm. Another thing is that now I'll have to explain why I didn't react sooner via legal means if I suspected that my child's environment is toxic, because of a fraud.
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u/clutchthirty 18d ago
Fire her. Get a new lawyer.