Donald L. Hortert Jr.
Contact_Title:
Contact_Organization:
Contact_WorkPhone:
971-214-4605
Contact_Email:
donald.hortert@intel.com
types:
This Oregon lawyer lied to a judge or court.This
Oregon lawyer didn't pass along crucial evidence to court.This Oregon lawyer has
dragged
out the case.
Who is this Oregon lawyer?_FullName: David B. Herr
Who is this Oregon lawyer?_Organization:
Who is this Oregon lawyer?_StreetAddress: 230 Columbia Blvd.
Who is this Oregon lawyer?_Address2: PO Box 597
Who is this Oregon lawyer?_City:
St. Helens
Who is this Oregon lawyer?_State:
Oregon
Who is this Oregon lawyer?_ZipCode: 97051
facts:
I am currently involved in a divorce for which the show cause hearing occurred
on 11/3/06.
Prior to this hearing, the co-petitioners attorney David B. Herr, filed an
affidavit
containing a pay stub which did not reflect the co-petitioners income at the
time. The
pay stub was at an introductory wage which was to last for a 4 week period which
ended
10/9/06. At the end of this 4 week period the co-petitoners income
increased, but this
was not filed nor noted by the co-petioner's attorney at the show cause hearing
on
11/3/06. In addition, when Mr Herr filed the child support document after
the show cause
hearing, he also used the introductory wage in the child support calculation
instead of
the co-petioners actual wage.
The temporary order that resulted from this misrepresentation (among many
others) has now
left my credit in peril. The amount of support ordered by the court
totaled $2,385.82.
For the past 5 years of the marriage, we have been living from check to check,
and my net
monthly income at the time of the order was roughly $2894.00 per month (2 checks
per month
at approximately $1,447 per check). Since I had been forced from my home
by the
co-petitoner with threats of having me removed legally, I had already secured
residence at
$759 per month (not counting utilities, etc). The temporary order left me
with roughly
$510 per month to live on, which the co-petitioner and her attorney were well
aware of.
Mr. Herr refused to cooperate towards obtaining any kind of final settlement
(refused to
provide information requested by my lawyer, nor any kind of final settlement
proposal
which was promised to be sent shortly after the show cause hearing) until my
credit
resources were exhausted and I could no longer meet the terms of the temporary
order as of March 2007. His
response was to threaten me with filing a contempt order and followed this up by
finally
providing my lawyer with some of the information requested (not all) and a two
paragraph
e-mail consisting of a final settlement proposal which was represented as a
"take it
or leave it" and then accused me of being the one giving his client a "take it
or leave it" proposal.
I have a considerably larger complaint to make concerning this attorney and his
client as
well as the proof to back it up. The final settlement hearing for the
divorce is
currently set for 6/22/07 at 1:30 PM at the Columbia County Courthouse in St.
Helens. I
will cooperate in any way necessary towards the investigation of
illegal/un-ethical
practices on the part of Mr. Herrr and would greatly appreciate any assistance
in seeing
that fair and just final settlement is obtained at the final settlement hearing
on 6/22.
I will be contacting the Oregon Department of Justice as well as the Oregon
State Attorney
General's Office concerning the practices of Mr. Herr and any effect it has had
on the
Columbia County Circuit Court relating to my case or any others.