Law Offices of Dorothy L. Carfrae

Don't trust this lawyer "Minor's Counsel" This lady is a turncoat in our Family court system. I personally witnessed this lawyer completely lie to the Judge on three occasions now. Once I had to subpoena her documents to get my point across. If thats what it takes, I recommend doing it. First, she believes she can interview a child in 15-20 minutes whom she had no prior contact with for more than a year and testify and recommend on that child's best interest in regards to Education, Health, and Welfare. WOW! Only 15-20 mins. WOW! In addition BEWARE she will only interview one parent and give that one parents allegations to the court without interviewing the other parent. Therefore I suggest, be ready to object in court on gender bias and state the exact code. Look it up. Ask the court to strike her statements and/or relieve her. This goes for both mother/and fathers. Remember she is a turncoat. Second, This lady Ms Carfrae, will only do what's best for herself in the eyes of the court. Meaning, no matter what, she will side with the Judge even knowing that his decision is wrong. Third, she believes the rules of court do not apply to her. Hence Rules of Evidence. Do not allow her to present testimony that came from anyone other than herself. Hearsay. Be ready to Object and Object often. BEWARE!!! She does not file any reports when the court so orders her to do so. DEMAND her to file a report and do not allow her to give any testimony until she does file the report. Rules are rules so do not allow her to break them because once she does she will continue to take advantage of her attorney title. STOP HER IMMEDIATELY!! Fourth, She will blame the party for not calling, emailing, or writing to set up an appointment. If your paying her, via monthly payments, contract, and/or PACT where does it say that the client needs to call to make an appointment. Although when you do call, write, and email Ms. Carfrae will say you did not try to contact her. BEWARE!!! more

Dorothy Carfrae was my attorney when my ex took me to court for full custody of my kids and an increase in spousal support. Dorothy is an experienced and well-known attorney in the Norwalk Court. If you have a family law case there, ask around. Most people, including the court clerks, bailiffs, and even judges (if you can talk to them), will recommend to hire Dorothy to represent you. more

Dorothy was my divorce attorney. I got a fair deal and feel that I would recommend to family and friends when they need a lawyer on issues of divorce, custody, or support. Thank you more

Mrs. Carfrae represented me in a divorce. My ex wife found somebody else and broke our marriage. I guess you can't keep someone who does not want to stay. Mrs. Carfrae negotiated a fair agreement for me against an attorney who wanted everything for my ex. I now have lots of time with my kids. I ended up with enough assets and income to move on with my life. Thank you for the help. more

Dorothy Carfrae left a lot of stuff undone during my divorce basically she does the bare minimum for her clients. She finalized my divorce without a child support order and Jennifer in her office told me that my ex would have a better chance of collecting spousal sup from me than I would of getting child sup. Not sure why she would have told me that but from reading the reviews I see that others were told the same. This is completely untrue and I am not even a high earner. I took my ex husb and the father of my 3 children back to court and won a $750 a month child support order against my purposely unemployed ex and when he had the nerve to ask for spousal sup the judge told him absolutely not. Judge William Allen at the Norwalk court house is wonderful and he corrected everything in my divorce that Dorothy had messed up on. He made sure I got my child sup order as I stated and he also moved my marriage back to the date of separation that I had stated that it was instead of the later one that my ex had used and Dorothy had told me that there was no way I could go back that far and refused to even request it but the judge moved back the date for me. Also my ex had hid his 401K, quit his job as divorce was filed. Dorothy had even subpoenaed his 401K and knew what he had done but when we went to trial she refused to ask for me to be able to keep my 401K even after what he had done and offered up my 401K plus for me to pay half the QDRO on top of that. This was all new to me I had no idea what was going on I remember the judge looking at me and your stuff is being divided so quickly and taken and you can’t even think straight. After I realized what a mess Dorothy had made and then she just left me and finalized my divorce and my ex’s lawyer immediately wanted my large 401K divided and I had to hire a new lawyer to straighten out this mess. My ex was going after my money prior to marriage because his lawyer was lying about out date of marriage and Dorothy refused to correct it more

I always feel weird reviewing attorneys, however there are a couple that I feel deserve to have the word spread about how great they are. Mrs Carfrae is one of them. I spent years in and out of court with my oldest sons father. The courts finally appointed my son his own attorney. Lucky for my son, Mrs Carfrae was assigned to him. Boy is she ever tough as nails! She is a tiny little thing, but size doesn't matter. She has a BIG reputation in the local courts...I cant even say what they call her. Has to do with having "Brass" you-know-whats. She is tough, but caring. She listened to my son and fought for him and he was finally removed from a bad situation. I can't say enough about her and I refer her to everyone I know! more