Meredith Robbins Palmer

I am a victim of domestic abuse. My life has been threatened numerous of times by my sons father even in front of my kids. I have several police reports documented where he became extremely hostile , one including me having to lock myself In the bathroom with my kids till the police arrived . The las...t incident was when he pushed me off my bed simply because I said "leave me alone". I now have a restraining order and It was the best decision I have ever made. I am finally free, and totally had forgotten what living life was really all about. My ex is an alcoholic with a narcissist disorder. And no I'm not just an angry/jealous ex as ms palmer continuously would make me feel like by repeatedly telling me "you need to understand that you guys are no longer together" . It was very confusing to me to hear that since if I wanted to be with him clearly I don't believe I would of went out of my way to get a restraining order. We met up for less than an hour and she barely let me talk about the issues and my worries, and when I did she would tell me "I'm not your therapist". She just went with it as if we were a married couple (which we weren't) that had split and needed to go to court for custody, visitation, child support with absolutely no other issues involved . DCF is involved and has done an investigation which ended up finding him at fault of neglect of both my children. My oldest confessed that he would continuously hit him and throw him at times. When I mentioned that to Ms palmer her reply was "he's most likely just mad at him right now". I told her I wanted supervised visitations until he finished therapy/anger management and alcohol treatment of some kind . Her response to me is "this isn't the right case for it to be supervised ". Anyways we go to court and end up agreeing with limited visitations gradually increasing over the months. She failed to even bring up any of the police reports or all the duis he has accumulated in the past, not to mention the hit and run he recently just had also, his anger problems, buying non prescribed medication and selling drugs. He is not the custodial parent and yet she tells me that I need to let him claim my son in the taxes , when 1 he lost custody 2 we were never married and 3 he hasn't been providing for him for more than 6 months. She also told me that I would be getting back child support , and that first few checks were going to be higher until all the back child support was paid off. When I got my first check I noticed it was the normal amount and noThing more . When I called her asking her about it she tells me "well you read the agreement and signed it " . I also spoke to her in confidentiality saying that I had to bring him to small claims court because he owes me a good amount of money , at the end of court she tells me she spoke to his lawyer about that issue and she also tells me that it's in my best interest to just move on with the loss because it can conflict with this hearing (whatever that means) . I'm totally blown away by her lack of interest. I have spoken to many people about this including my therapist and other legal consultants And I've been told she's very uneducated, and lazy. I have done nothing wrong to deserve such mistreatment from someone that's supposed to be a "professional lawyer" . When I called her about the back child support I told her that I had hired her for her to guide me in the right direction and that it didn't seem like that's what was going on. She automatically became very defensive and said "well you can do it on your own from now on since you think you can do a better job because I'm done with your case and I'm resigning right now. Absolutely one of the worst experiences I have ever dealt with, and like I mentioned I'm beyond blown away.