Gregory B Wall

Gregory Wall

This client took part in a mediation to settle her case, to which settlement she agreed and signed the settlement agreement. The mediator, a former district court judge, would never have closed the mediation without her voluntary assent to the terms and her voluntary signature on the agreement. She claimed at one point that she never signed anything and never received a copy of the agreement, yet in t he next breath asserted she had taken the agreement to her bishop that very evening to have him look it over with her. How could she do this without having a copy? She claimed she was taken to a back room and forced to sign the agreement; she claimed discovery hadn't been completed when in fact it had. She was sent the final divorce papers prepared by the other attorney to review before they were submitted to the court and failed for months to reply or get in touch with us. She mediator told her several times, as did I, that if she didn't want to settle and sign the agreement she didn't need to--that she should not sign the agreement, but she did decide to go ahead and sign. Of course she was taken off the husband's medical benefits because after the divorce he isn't allowed by law to carry his former spouse. She was aware of this. In the end this client knew perfectly well what she was signing, that in her opinion it was fair, she received a copy of the papers, and left, not to be heard from for months. She walked away owing a large sum of money on her bill, which in my opinion is the reason for her complaints.