She Sounds Great But Don’t Do It
$10k retainer and she threw my case. I hired her in June. She told me to agree to permanent injunction vs permanent restraining order for abusive ex, which benefited him. I met with her and ‘my great friend that is the supervisor at CPS and hiring
me gives you a personal ‘in’ at the organization.’ My ex was required to get an ABEL evaluation that basically assesses your likelihood to be a predator. I, legally and morally, was supposed to give my side of what went on. She obstructed me, her own client from doing so. She had my husband’s completed ABEL and psych eval in her hands Sept. 15 and told me point blank ‘DO NOT CONTACT ‘THE EVALUATOR YOURSELF, I WILL HANDLE IT’ is what she told me repeatedly. In January after I had new counsel, I met the evaluator. He said he tried to contact me numerous times through MY OWN ATTORNEY. She never contacted the police or the evaluator and she and the amicus both colluded to prevent me and my children our basic rights as humans on Earth. It gets even worse.
The day of court with my ex, I go up to her office for what I think is prep. She sits me down and tells me he’s getting unsupervised visitation. I ask how could that be possible when the predator evaluation wasn’t even complete, to my knowledge. She said she and the other lawyers basically sat down and decided there wasn’t enough to keep him from unsupervised (after they intentionally created ‘not enough’). I was shattered in this moment. I thought I was walking in to a game plan and I walked into this, about 3 hours before court. She clasped her hands across from me and with a horribly empty look, watched me wail for minutes. She told me I didn’t have to go to court and she could just answer/agree to things for me. I attended court that afternoon virtually, as I was too distraught to be inside of the court. I watched the amicus and judge congratulate her for her good work.
Oh, my ex brought a courtroom full of people that morning and my lawyer didn’t call a single witness or person to be be there for me/ with me. My lawyer never contacted any of my potential witnesses. My lawyer never told the judge anything from my side (which apparently is what they are supposed to do, I hear) so the judge, after getting new counsel, had never heard any of my allegations until after I fired her but she already threw the dynamite into my and my children’s lives.
$10k for a family law retainer, of an unemployed woman, fleeing child abuse and domestic violence, and to then do all of this to her, seemingly with spite or venom is unfathomable for me. The Tyler landscape for lawyers is bad, bad. Please research and research harder.
She coasts on the name of Beau Sinclair.
‘Sinclair is great IF they are on your side’
