Reddit — great for memes and videos. Awful for legal counsel.
One Reddit user found that out the hard way after seeking legal advice in the subreddit r/legaladvice. It’s the same subreddit where the first bullet point about the category clearly states “Any advice found here IS NOT legal advice. Reddit is not a substitute for a real lawyer.”
So a Reddit user still decided to seek actual legal counsel in regard to his pending divorce. Now to be fair, he asked his first legal questions in a DIFFERENT subreddit, probably something like r/dumbdivorceideas but even that subreddit would have the bullet point “THESE ARE DUMB DIVORCE IDEAS.”
Here’s his original issue and what’s going on now in his life.
A while back I asked for advice on a good divorce attorney in another sub. Someone said:
“You don’t have to hire the best or most expensive attorney. You need to consult with the top family attorneys in town. The lawyer cannot represent your ex to be if you’ve discussed your marriage with them. It’s a conflict of interest. Read up on it, there are a few tricks you can pull to help even the playing field”
Based on the advice I got I spent the next few weeks talking with like 30 divorce attorneys in town, so that my wife and her dad would not be able to hire one. I never hired an attorney myself because I could not afford one but my wife found one anyway.
Apparently they found out what I did, probably because it was so hard for her to get an attorney, and today I just got hit with a motion for attorneys fees saying that what I did was abuse of process, an attempt to deprive and interfere with justice, bad faith, and a bunch of other stuff. And that I have to pay part of her attorney fees because I made it more expensive for her.
Is there something I can do to stop this? This is in Utah.
Please point him to the subreddit r/jailsurvivaltips.
[via The Concourse]