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    Default Can You Sue Your Ex's Court-Appointed Lawyer

    My question involves possible malpractice in the state of: Alaska


    This is a matter of Divorce in Alaska a no fault state.

    My ex wife (Short Marriage 18 months) had health issues. Cancer and heart problems and later found out mental issues. I did everything a good husband would do to help his wife to better her health. Company insurance $165 weekly, Stopped smoking, plumbed her dry cabin with hot n cold and all new appliances. Security cameras, new car and a garage.To avoid Chemo, bought only the best foods as well as supplements. Grew medical Marijuana (Legal for any reason here). She did not work and supported her fully paying her existing bills, student loans and so forth.

    Well, putting it mildly, she is Nucking Futs. Her son is a heroin addict. I tried to help the kid, but things were getting stolen, mom giving our money to him for gas and food, well you know where that money went. She also had a man friend who was a drunk,drug user,homeless, chose not to work except around our place doing shabby work.

    Of course there were constant arguments about all this. The boy friend would allow her to smoke as well as just being around which I disapproved of as he in my opinion was a bum and hers was he is like a brother. She was constantly spending time with this guy when I was away at work providing alcohol, tobacco and food . Came home after a 2 week job and she was picking imaginary worms from her face. She was tested and was coming off methamphetamine use.

    There was no discussing anything with her. She would lie about everything and they were stupid lies. The security cameras which you can monitor the place with by cell phone, stopped working when I left for work. She says the password some how got changed. OK so you get the picture. Any discussion I tried to have would turn into her getting violent. Physical violence. hitting me, holding me at gun point and such. I would leave the house to stay at work. She has abandonment issues and this totally freaked her out me leaving. Tried counselling for 6 months and did like what the counselor had to say so she quit going. So anyway, I tried to be understanding due to her health, but she was getting worse. Burning my clothes, breaking everything in the house.

    I had enough. We agreed on a divorce. Was waiting for a few months until the first of the year to get her set up with money, all the bills paid and she could apply for SSI and medicare. Even grew her 5 LBS of marijuana to leave with her.

    So you get the picture here on why I left and was divorcing. She wanted the lifestyle that was not going to help her with her health.

    First of the year, I filed and left. crazy emails, texts phone calls. She emailed my work saying I was leaving her to die. Social media slams as well as everyone we knew.

    I failed to mention I left before Christmas as she went into another rage breaking everything in the house. I left behind my atv I had 15 years before I met her, She grabbed my dogs and left, also left behind an expensive growing system. I left allot of my premarital assets, just wanted out.

    Sorry for all that, felt it was worth a mention. This divorce was supposed to be uncontested. I was to pay for her car and insurance as well as support her until she got her SSI.

    Well that did not happen. She went to the state and claimed that I had abused her and she got a free state run attorney. Of course I never abused her. She had no proof of abuse.

    For the last 11 months now there has been one filing after another. I wanted my dogs, ATV and grow equipment which was a legal business I had. I want only those 3 things and that was it. Just to try and get this done ASAP, I didn't even make claim to the 30K plus in hiome improvement or any of my other Premarital assets.

    This state run help center along with her, just made up things why she needed my items, Every other week it seems I had to file or reply. I could not afford an attorney and tried with a paralegal to keep up with the constant filings. Most of this stuff was lies or never proven in court just here say.

    So my question, is there any liability on the state attorney who took my ex as a client on a lie and continued to file this nonsense paperwork?

    After 9 months, the judge mediated. Said I was to get my grow stuff, ATV and she was to put the car i her name and refinance. She was given 90 day to do so. A 3rd party picked up my now broken ATV, broken and missing grow equipment and the car, the new car that had only 15K in miles when I left 9 months earlier, had only 2 quarts of oil out of 5, 35K miles put on it. Seat belts were cut, out of registration for 3 months and the from brakes were ran down destroying the rotors. On top of that, she dropped it off at the bank in a handicapped parking space getting a $250 ticket. I was never notified, the bank called me.

    Now this state attorney wants me to pay all of her legal fees. I have requested a hearing with the judge about the matter and failing to comply with the court order.

    I also have a consult with an attorney on what I should do next.

    So can the attorney be held liable for any of this? Funny thing, this is an domestic violence, sexual assault attorney for the state. I am the one who has been abused with her actions as my ex would just make up one thing after another contradicting what she had said in her previous filings.

    I would really like to hear what if anything I can do. File a complaint, sue for damages or at least as the judge to make her pay for her own legal defense.

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    Default Re: Can You Sue Your Ex's Court-Appointed Lawyer

    Your ex's lawyer owes you no duty. You cannot sue your ex's lawyer for legal malpractice. You also cannot sue your ex's lawyer for believing her story over yours. You cannot sue your ex's lawyer for petitioning for you to pay her legal fees.

    You can speak to your own lawyer about how to best oppose the petition for fees, and whether any of the actions you attribute to your ex's lawyer might support a motion for sanctions.

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