<prompt> Human: Starting off - My girlfriend has lots of debt. She made some bad mistakes when she was younger opened lots of credit cards, fiscally irresponsible, has about 65k in student loan debt.She is getting herself back on track and has been doing well the last 2-3 years.She works for law enforcement and was attempting a physical test to advance to a new position when she tore her ACL. She immediately looked at workers comp, and 9 months after fighting it in the courts, she won. She scheduled her surgery.One week before her surgery, she received a notice that they were going to appeal the decision. That she didnt have to take the testShe filed her FMLA paperwork which was approved and had the surgery anyways.2 months later, last week, she received another letter saying that her lawyer never brought anything to court he claimed he had nothing new to introduce, so the appealing side won. Now she is responsible for everything related to the surgery. Around 40,000Two days ago she received another letter - because it was a non-compensable injury, the FMLA paperwork is null so she actually took unpaid leave. They want all of their money back from the paychecks they sent out over the duration of her leave. She was set to receive a paycheck today, which she got, and it has the sum of 0.She has bills due tomorrow from her credit cards and other debts she has been working so hard to pay off and she has no money. After each paycheck and her paying all of her bills and not spending frivolously at all she never goes out, has no luxuries, she has maybe 200 to last her the month to pay for foodgrocerieshousehold upkeepetc. Now they are saying she still owes them 53 hours of work for no pay.Her parents co-signed on her student loans, so they are having to pick up a payment, and I had to give her 400 just so she could get a brace so she could get back to work. Now I need to give her 500 for her to pay off these bills due tomorrow so they dont overdraft her and put her even further back into debt.She is now trying to sue them again but at the district level.I have my own future to worry about and Im doing OK enough to where that money doesnt hurt me, but its still me having to dip into my savings. I want to do everything I can for her but they keep on taking her money. If they start garnishing her wages she will have nothing to live on at all.She cant get a second job because her contract says she cant while working where she is.They are trying to make her take that option, which would require her to quit meaning she cant get unemployment.I fully expect them to get their money back and immediately fire her living in Texas, right to work stateCan you guys help at all??? I hope this is the right subreddit.  <response>: Hey OP, sorry for the troubles. Money sucks and it hurts everybody. So listen I saw this when perusing mobile and got on my computer where I am logged in to lend you some help. I am an attorney, Im licensed in multiple jurisdictions and I want to talk to you about legal malpractice. First and foremost, I am by no means offering my legal services nor should this be construed as legal advice, FIND YOUR OWN ATTORNEY. I am not advertising my services or offering them to you.Now that the legal mumbo jumbo is gone I need to tell you that your girlfriend does not have a very good case for malpractice. Malpractice is a VERY difficult standard to reach. If you think about it, that makes perfect sense because lawyers are a self governing profession and why would a group of lawyers draft a legal standard that is really that damaging to them? They wouldnt and they havent. In most jurisdictions all of the ones in which I practice to even have a case for legal malpractice you need to show that but for the negligent lawyers actions you would have won the case. Thats damn hard. My point is this, do not spend an inordinate amount of time shopping around for a lawyer to bring a malpractice suit it just isnt worth your time.In addition, without knowing the facts of the case or having any background beyond what the internets has told me, you probably do want to seek out a different lawyer and try to get this reduced. As others have pointed out there is a cap to wage garnishment, and a good lawyer can make things better real fast I know, a lawyer advocating that you hire a lawyer shocking.For the sake of full disclosure, this is not my area of practice. I work in a more unique field. Your situation sucks, hard, but after the bad times come the good. Chin up to you and your SO buddy. 