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Expert: Norma Duenas - California Bankruptcy Attorney - 2/11/2011


Question
If you sign a contract with an attorney to provide Chapter 7 bankruptcy services and pay the amount stated in the contract can the attorney call you and ask for more money because your case is taking too much time?  No written request, just a verbal phone call.  The additional fees requested are 38% of the original fee.
There is no reference in the contract that there may be additional fees.

Answer
This would depend on what was agreed to in the contract initially. If you signed a contract agreement with the attorney for services, it should have included the scope of the services that the fees were for. If the attorney is trying to charge you additional fees that were within what was previously agreed to in the contract, you should seek to enforce the terms of the contract. You should not be charged additional fees if the contract agreement included the services that the attorney is now performing and there was no reference to additional fees for those services.

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Norma Duenas - California Bankruptcy Attorney

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Norma Duenas is a California Bankruptcy Attorney representing clients in Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 consumer bankruptcy cases. Norma Duenas is the founding member of Southern California Law Advocates a consumer bankruptcy law firm. For further information you can visit us at: California Bankruptcy Attorney - Riverside, Los Angeles, & Orange County

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Have filed over 350 consumer bankruptcy cases in Orange County, Los Angeles and Riverside. I have worked previously for Macey and Aleman, the largest consumer bankruptcy firm in the country. Currently I am the owner of Southern California Law Advocates, a bankruptcy law firm with offices in Orange County, Los Angeles and Riverside. Law offices is focused on consumer Chapter 13 and Chapter 7 bankruptcy.

Organizations
California Bar Association American Bar Association Riverside Bankruptcy Attorney

Education/Credentials
University of California, Irvine, BA in Criminology, Law and Society California State University, Los Angeles MS in Criminal Justice University of San Diego, Law School, JD Cum Laude

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