Legal Question in Civil Litigation in Texas

I have been working with a CPA on my taxes for over a year and have paid them monthly for the hours they have billed. I just had a disagreement with the new CPA on staff and they are telling me that I owe them money for coming into the office to drop off documents. I told them I would pay them the $200 owed but that I question the value of that time and the charges filed. I then asked for the draft documents that have been completed and made them aware that I would not compete the process with them. Their response was that I now owed $600 that they were writing off as bad debt and that they would not release the draft documents. How is this possible? I have paid them over $800 for the work they have completed thus far. At this point, I am getting nothing for the payments I have made? Is this legal? How can I make them give me at least what I have paid for up to this point? Also, when I told them I did not want to work with them any longer the $200 they said I owed quickly increased to $600 - how is that possible? Not sure what to do from here...


Asked on 7/30/10, 9:46 am

1 Answer from Attorneys
Mark Dunn Mark D. Dunn

I hope that you kept a LOG of your conversations and interactions with these folks, something along these lines:

"July 28, 2010 (1:35 PM) - I went to CPA office, talked to Carlotta. She said I owe $300. Refused to give me any documents when I asked for them."

You might want to start creating that log NOW from memory, before you forget.

Call your local Justice Court (I think the number is 972-466-3528) and ask them when you can come in and file a lawsuit. The filing fee will be about $100. You can write out your petition in narrative form.

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Answered on 8/05/10, 5:05 am


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