Are they allowed to do this?

On Monday (July 30, 2012), the state of Virginia seized our accounts. My brother and I have our accounts on them because my mom wass linked to our accounts. My mom was unable to pay a bill because they had upped our mortgage from $1,700 to a little over $2,000. So the money that went towards that bill went to the mortgage because we have to have a roof over our heads, right? The Portsmouth Circuit Court in Virginia ordered that all of her accounts be frozen, which meant my account and my brother''s account was frozen also. My mother have been trying to get ahold of the lawyer in charge of this case, as our banks keep telling us to do, to work something out, but the receptionist coldly kept saying and I quote "He''s busy." We have no food hardly to eat and not money to pay out light bill, electricity bill, mortgage or anything because they took everything. Are they allowed to just ignore us like this? Is there anything that can be done? There should be something to protect us, right?