Law Offices of Sheri Rich Mount

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  The following is my experience and opinion of Ms. Mount performance as one of the assigned counsel on divorce case. Ms Mount was brought into my everlasting divorce case to bring it to a closure. By that I mean, take to trial. Once onboard, Ms. Mount got drawn into my ex-wife’s tedious financial grind of litigating even the tiniest aspect of the divorce. It mostly had to do with the return of my property (to include work related items) or the division of community property. Of course the more the attorneys argued, the more billable hours there were. The other main issue was characterization of worker's comp funds received during the divorce. For that, a forensic account was stipulated to by both parties. At issue was about $300,000. Also at issue, was the sale of two rental homes. Those funds were deposited into a trust account totaling ~$178,000. Our divorce began in 2004. By 2010 I VERY much wanted to get our case before a judge. With six years experience in the Family Court system under my belt, I knew it would be the ONLY way to FINALLY get divorced and move on with life. Over time, the hearings, and of course legal fees, mounted with no end in sight. Between the months of December 2009 and February 2010, I had $31,000 in legal fees. In that time, there was a hearing or two and a deposition. None of it appeared to bring us closer to trial (i.e. the finish line); just spinning my (expensive) wheels in one place. In April 2010 Ms. Mount began the pressure me into resolving the matter through arbitration. I was dead-set against it. Her paralegal called me at work almost every day for a week, I still did not agree. Finally, Ms. Mount herself called me to extol the virtues of not only arbitration, about the arbitrator himself, Mr. Richard Harris. Consequently, I felt I had no choice but to truckle to her pressure. Once in arbitration, Ms. Mount refused to use the stipulated forensic accountant’s analysis/report of disputed funds. Ms. Mount also stipulated to $115,000 of those disputed funds WITHOUT my permission. Moreover, Ms. Mount allowed my ex-wife to use HER financial tracing of commingled funds without disputing it whatsoever. Needless to say, it was a financial ‘bloodbath’ for me. It gets worse… During the arbitration, Mr. Harris completed his 1st proposed Arbitrators Award. With all other matters settled (however badly), the remaining issue was about $99,000 (from the sale of the rental homes) and some of my misc. personal property (i.e. tools, etc.). My ex-wife, having been awarded the family home (20 ac. ranch) and misc. property, (fencing, horses, tac, etc.), I was awarded ~$66,000 of the $99,000. Needless to say, opposing counsel disputed his Award. It was at that time Ms. Mount went MIA. An extended period of time went by without any response to opposing counsel’s dispute to the award. At one point I received an e-mail from Ms. Mount's secretary that said they had not heard from her in about a week. Since there was no opposition from Ms. Mount, Mr. Harris wrote a 2nd Arbitrator's Award- this one yielding to opposing counsel’s disputed points. To put that in dollars and cents, I lost ~$33,000. I was finally told Ms. Mount was ill, so out of desperation, I decided to represent myself. I wrote my own dispute letter to the 2nd Arbitrator's Award. Mr. Harris made minor changes to the Award but refused to change it any further as, by this time, there were a total of 3 Awards written by him. By that time, my case was almost 8(!) years old and was STILL not settled. I sought out a law firm to represent me. Unfortunately, but this time, my ex was now dating my co-worker who had plenty of money to impress her with and spend on my divorce. The hemorrhaging of money (i.e. legal fees) continues to this day.
  By higg13001, February 16, 2018

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