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[quote=Anonymous]The time lag in responding that you describe doesn't seem out of the ordinary. If your need for a more immediate response stems from your not complying with a court order, you are creating your own crisis and your lawyer therefore may not be too sympathetic to your sense of urgency on this one issue. If you're a lawyer you know that an order must be complied with until it is stayed or vacated, even if it turns out to be erroneous or "unenforceable". You can move to reconsider, modify, stay the order. It may even be immediately appealable, but absent a stay, you'd still have to comply until it's reversed. If what you mean is that it is impossible for you to comply with, you make your best, good faith effort and move to clarify or modify. In any case, you'll be litigating the issue somehow (either via your own motion or via defending a contempt allegation) unless you comply. Therefore your lawyer may not see this is as critically urgent as you are and they may be right.

Looking for another lawyer who may or may not respond to you more promptly is not likely to help you avoid being dragged into court at this point.

All that said, if you feel that there isn't a good attorney-client relationship, start interviewing others. But consider whether your behavior and expectations are part of the problem and whether switching lawyers will really improve things for you.[/quote]

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