Susan Heather 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 kee...p 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 bank 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.

The fee for our chapter 7 bankruptcy was amazing -- 1/3 of what most other attorneys were asking. However, I suspect that she couldn't charge any more and maintain any business, because she was rude! VERY, VERY RUDE. We were afraid to ask questions, because whenever we did she would respond with, "Di...dn't I just say that? Isn't that what I just said? What, are you stupid?" or some variety of that statement. She was very abraisive and treated us more like an inconvience than paying clients. She also yelled at our toddler, which I found very out of place. If we weren't in such a financial crunch, we would NOT have hired this attorney.