I've had an application to family court that has caused me great distress. I dealt with all the papers myself up to recently when my legal aid came through and the solicitor took over. I drafted, redrafted, gathered evidence for, and agonised over my C1A with no help whatsoever.
Now it's time to submit a longer statement and solicitor has taken the reigns. It feels both relieving and anxiety inducing because it's so important I feel so strange relinquishing control to someone else. At the same time it nearly finished me off working with the C1A whilst being a mother and working full-time.
The solicitor is saying it doesn't matter if my statement is late, the court don't care, but it feels so wrong to me to miss court deadlines.
They haven't sent it to me and it was due today.
Should I carry on taking control or let them do their thing? On the one hand this cannot go wrong, everything must be put across properly and only I can really do that as I know the ins and outs of what happened. On the other I am drained to the point of mental and physical exhaustion.
I'm waiting for counselling, on anxiety medication, but this whole thing is about to finish me off.
Is my solicitor right, or do they just not give a crap?