Brown and Seelye

My mother filed for chapter 7 with Brown & Seelye. I went with her to meet with Brown & Seelye due to the fact that my name was attached to some of her debt ie: Mortgages and lines of credit. However, I lived in the home not my mother and I had paid every payment on time and of course wanted to keep the home and make sure that the reaffirmation was done on the home loans and the specific credit lines were not included in this bankruptcy (this was whole purpose of me attending the meeting prior to my mother filing for bankruptcy). Although, the filing with the court stated that the reaffirmations were to be done and line of credit were not to be included the reaffirmation was never sent or completed with the banks and are showing as a negative remark on my credit. I am someone who has always had good credit never late on any payments EVER. I called their office several times and was told that it is the banks responsibility to send the reaffirmation paper work and not theirs and that no court is going to reopen the case to just do a reaffirmation and of course the bank is saying it was their responsibility. I do remember my mother paying Brown & Seelye for the services how is this now in my lap? Considering I, nor my mother are not bankruptcy attorneys how would we know to catch something that bankruptcy attorneys are fully aware of. Seems to me they are going through the motions and not the details. I have been very negatively affected and disappointed by the business they conducted and will filing a complaint with the bar.

I have never been treated so badly by a professional. People typically see bankruptcy attorneys at a very bad time in their lives. There is stress, fear, embarrassment. Medical bills have overcome my family and we were looking to do a repayment plan. I’ve never been in this situation before but certainly didn’t expect to be yelled at or treated in a condescending way by a person I was going to pay for a service with.
I do not recommend anyone go there. No one deserves treated this way. The attorney was rude, condescending, obnoxious, judgemental. Rather than address questions I asked like professional she mocked me for what I told her I’d heard about the process rather than say «no, that’s not true» or «yes, that is true.»
Just a horrible experience at a time that is already very upsetting and stressful.