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Lawyer malpractice

I hired an attorney for a closing on a property I bought last year. She was supposed to put both of my childrens name on the title of the home. She made a mistake and omitted one childs name. This allowed the other child to go behind my back and take out a loan on the property, doubleing the mortgage payments making it impossible for me to pay. I sued my daughter in court and won a judgement against her. The home ended up in foreclosure because I could not make the payments. I lost the rest of my equity in the home and made no profit on at all. I have no home, and all my investment is gone. Can I sue this attorney for malpractice because her mistake caused me to lose the home and all the equity I had put into it, I put 50K down, and lost all of it. My daughter has a court order to repay the 25K she borrowed, but the other half of that equity was lost once the home went into foreclosure. There was no profit due the fact that I got a year behind in payments, taxes and foreclosure fee's and attorney fees, and real estate agent fees. I paid this attorney to do a specific job for me and screwed up. She never showed up at closing, she sent a last minute replacement who obviously didnt know what she was doing.


Asked on 4/18/07, 12:45 pm

1 Answer from Attorneys
Kenneth J. Ashman Ashman Law Offices, LLC

Re: Lawyer malpractice

I am a little confused by your question, as it seems as though you have a "causation" problem. Please explain how having an additional child on the tile would have prevented the one child that was already listed from borrowing money and encumbering the property?

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Answered on 4/18/07, 12:57 pm


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