I believe I would have done better with a different lawyer. Here is my story:
I am the divorced father of three children. No longer happy with a 50/50 shared custody situation, my children ran away from their mother to live with me full time. My ex-wife refused to pay child support, so I needed a court order and I needed it fast.
Ms. Robbins claimed she knew how to handle what she called `high confrontation? people like my ex-wife. What I didn?t realize was that her technique, apparently, was to give in to every one of my ex-wife?s demands. Ms. Robbins never met with me in person between hiring her and appearing in court. She never had a conversation with me about where to find leverage or how to apply it. She never had a follow-up conversation with me after court to go over what had happened and what to do next. It seemed to me that either she had taken sides with my ex-wife or she was stuck permanently in `devil?s advocate? mode. She didn?t seem to care at all that I was in an extremely difficult situation for almost an entire year with three hungry teenagers and no child support. It put a huge amount of completely unnecessary stress on me. Even after numerous insults, delays and broken promises from my ex-wife, Ms. Robbins continued to give in to her demands.
In the end, it took nearly a full year until I finally received the court order that I needed ? however, it was bundled with a bunch of ridiculous and highly questionable conditions. Over the course of the shared custody case I used several lawyers and in my opinion, Ms. Robbins was far and away the worst lawyer I ever hired. Even after the case was over, she never checked with me to see if I had received the court-ordered child support but I did receive a bill for a process serving charge that she had forgotten from the previous year ? how disorganized and unprofessional.
Honestly, I have to give Karen Robbins a grade of ?D minus? for the way she handled my case. My advice would be to keep looking.
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