Growing up in a small and rural community in Southwestern Pennsylvania, I was truly fortunate to be reared by a hard-working Father and a loving “stay-at-home” Mother. She taught the four of us so many things by example and by so many proverbs. One of her favorites was “You get what you pay for!” To her, that meant that you purchased fewer items of high quality personal goods or articles of clothing rather than more items of lesser quality or durability.
Today, as a practicing family law attorney in Dayton, Ohio, I have encountered and worked with more than a few clients who, while trying to save money on legal fees, truly did themselves a disservice with the end results obtained. In this article, I shall set forth several actual scenarios and discuss the losses the clients sustained in trying to save money!
Scenario #1: Wife set common sense aside and chose to believe Husband who promised he “would take care of her”!
With Wife’s faith in Husband’s honesty and integrity, she did not retain counsel, did not file an Answer, and did not attend the final divorce hearing in Greene County, Ohio. On the day of the final hearing, … Read More... “You Get What You Pay For!”