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My Worst financial descision - Gary r - 11/6/2017 -
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commentI cannot recommend this attorney. Mary Commander was my attorney for my divorce. Her fees have been over $25,000.00 to date. She advised me that the house was completely mine, since I assumed an existing mortgage before marriage. She even chastised me for discussing a settlement with my spouse regarding the house. She also advised that my former spouse's marital infidelity did not matter according to VA law. Eight months later she sent me an email the night before a settlement meeting stating she was wrong. In the end I was advised and convinced to sign an unfair agreement that most likely cost me tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in excess of what I believe a judge would have awarded my former spouse. When I voiced my concern that the settlement was unfair, she replied that, "I got what I wanted". To add icing to the cake, Mary Commanders office botched/failed to file the orders for my marital share of my former spouses two retirement accounts, costing me another approximately $20,000 and continues to bill me for her paralegals "attempts" to obtain the QDRO information that should have been obtained prior to the divorce being finalized by the Court. Choosing her as my attorney was absolutely the worse financial decision of my life! I am considering a complaint to the VA Bar.