Posted by Shelby on 1/26/13

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In Alabama is an attorney allowed to quit representing you
in a child custody case before the final decision, without
filing a motion to remove himself from the case??? The
opposing attorney's paralegal was stepmother to the child.
The paralegal did all the filing of motions and kept the
case going for nonsense reasons long after if should have
ended. In fact, the judge gave custody to the mother (us)
and the opposing attorneys office would not after 4 months
of waiting sign the custody agreement, then filed another
motion to bring it back to court. Our attorney refused to go
back to court without more money, which we did not have. The
paralegal (stepmother) could have kept this in court
indefintely because their side had no legal fees. She did
all the work and used every form of deception! Very
unethical to me but I could get no one to tell me what to do
about that! My daughter was terrified to go to the last
hearing without representation which angered the judge and
he gave custody to the father. Is the judges decision fair
or would it stand since our attorney never filed a motion to
remove himself from the case??

Custody case, 1/26/13, by Shelby.

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