Eddie L. Laughlin

My ex-husband and I agreed to a divorce in late 2010. Someone has to file, so I did. I spoke with Mr. Laughlin in the initial interview and he assigned me to his associate, Mr. N. J. Gaunt. My ex and I wrote out our separation agreement and division of property. In it I gave him the house we ...were living in. I would move out and find something else. Although we split the cost of the attorney’s fees, Mr. Gaunt was my attorney. At no point did Mr. Gaunt point out, mention, or suggest anything about what might become problems with the division of our property or a joint mortgage. I returned to the office within a year because my ex was now chronically arrears in the payment on HIS house but was dragging my credit down. I went back to the office for assistance or advice and got the ‘too bad, so sad’ response because there was nothing in the paperwork that addressed the joint mortgage. When I thought back on it, Mr. Gaunt was going through or had gone through a divorce of his own and had mentioned discontent with his ex over issues with child custody. You pay your money to an attorney to look into the dark corners, smooth out the creases, and interpret the fine print. I could have typed up my own paperwork and filed and gotten this result for a lot less money.