I gotta be honest, I did not know what to expect halfway into a highly contentious, long, drawn-out battle in my divorce. COVID didn't help the process either. The Court ordered a Minor's Counsel. A friend of mine instantly knew who she was having dealt with custody issues in her divorce as well, and told me I'd love her. She was SO right. From day one, Barbara was open and honest with (both my ex and) me, but more importantly, brilliant with my teenager. They developed an excellent rapport and my teen completely respected and trusted her. She would remind me when I was ignorant or incorrect, and praise me when I had the right approach. Firm, but always professional....read full review
Jun 2024
If I could give her a zero or negative stars I would. If she still practices law and works as a Minors Counsel, run away, and I mean fast. My review stems from her actions between 2012-2013 when she was appointed Minors Counsel for my Daughter and the long term effects her actions created. I won't detail out everything that took place but all provide some highlights. During the six months that Barbara met with my daughter, my daughter expressed a desire to live with me full time, or at the least a shared 50/50 custody. In the required private meetings I had with Barbara she accused me of Coaching My daughter. Flat out lie on her behalf. When I detailed to her concerns about the mother, namely the way she was brought up and the fact that she as a child was a victim of Parental Alienation Syndrome, and she was repeating the same upbringing with our daughter, Barbara had to make a statement that not only was she an attorney she was a licensed therapist, and that she did not believe my ex. mimicked any of those behavioral traits. During this almost two year custody hearing(s) my daughter was also seeing a court ordered Psychologist. I requested this because I knew my daughter would need the help, her mother and her attorney tried everything they could to not allow this to occur. During this period Barbara was suppose to do periodic conference calls with the Psychologist which she failed to do. It was only at the last minute days before the final hearing that she made a call, and that call lasted about 15 minutes. At the conclusion Barbara felt she knew what was best for my daughter and not the Psychologist. At the day of the hearing Barbara put into place a visitation schedule that had me only seeing my daughter at 30%. Requiring me to travel 20 miles for an afternoon visitation once a week for four hours. My weekend visitations I had to pick up my daughter at 7pm on Friday and have her back to her mothers by 8pm Sunday. She put into the order that I had to maintain any extracurricular activity that the mother put into place. To retaliate, the mother enrolled our daughter in any activity she could find that was local to her house. Gymnastics, Diving, etc... Basically she did everything she could to eat up any one on one time I would have with my daughter, and she made it a point to show up at each activity when I brought my daughter which made my daughter nervous about spending time with me. My daughter over the next two years got more and more frustrated with the schedule. Her mother was not going to compromise and my daughter withdrew from the close relationship we had. If came to a head in 2014 when my daughter stated she no longer wanted to spend time with me. All because Barbara failed to act in her best interests and failed to address the problems developing from her custody schedule. Even my daughter tried to plead with her after the case was finalized. I attempted multiple times to go back to court and have things changed but the Judge sided with Barbara's skewed assessment each time. I won't detail my daughters high school years other than I had to threaten the school with a lawsuit if they did not intervene and get her on track with her education. The mother could care less and if our daughter failed she was ok with that because she knew how important education was too me. Within five days of graduation my ex moved to another county and never notified to the court or myself as to where she had taken my daughter. It took almost eight months for me to find her. Barbara was non responsive when I contacted her office to inform her of this. Moving forward my daughter was going to a 4 year university out of state, (again I was never notified) and she lasted 3 semesters. Her IG account reflected a life of too much partying in school. She ended up moving back in with her mom which I knew was going to turn into a S show. Within about one year her mother kicked her out of the house, that was two years ago. So what became of my daughter. She is now a Stripper, does online Pay per view Porn, has a Only Fans Page
Oct 2022
Shocked at the reviews on here maybe she’s getting old tired and senile . Huge waste of money! Does not do anything she’s legally supposed to do. She lies to judges with no shame. Does not care about family reunification only cares about money. We made a special court date to accommodate her and she didn’t even show up.
I gotta be honest, I did not know what to expect halfway into a highly contentious, long, drawn-out battle in my divorce. COVID didn't help the process either. The Court ordered a Minor's Counsel. A friend of mine instantly knew who she was having dealt with custody issues in her divorce as well, and told me I'd love her. She was SO right. From day one, Barbara was open and honest with (both my ex and) me, but more importantly, brilliant with my teenager. They developed an excellent rapport and my teen completely respected and trusted her. She would remind me when I was ignorant or incorrect, and praise me when I had the right approach. Firm, but always professional....read full review
If I could give her a zero or negative stars I would. If she still practices law and works as a Minors Counsel, run away, and I mean fast. My review stems from her actions between 2012-2013 when she was appointed Minors Counsel for my Daughter and the long term effects her actions created. I won't detail out everything that took place but all provide some highlights. During the six months that Barbara met with my daughter, my daughter expressed a desire to live with me full time, or at the least a shared 50/50 custody. In the required private meetings I had with Barbara she accused me of Coaching My daughter. Flat out lie on her behalf. When I detailed to her concerns about the mother, namely the way she was brought up and the fact that she as a child was a victim of Parental Alienation Syndrome, and she was repeating the same upbringing with our daughter, Barbara had to make a statement that not only was she an attorney she was a licensed therapist, and that she did not believe my ex. mimicked any of those behavioral traits. During this almost two year custody hearing(s) my daughter was also seeing a court ordered Psychologist. I requested this because I knew my daughter would need the help, her mother and her attorney tried everything they could to not allow this to occur. During this period Barbara was suppose to do periodic conference calls with the Psychologist which she failed to do. It was only at the last minute days before the final hearing that she made a call, and that call lasted about 15 minutes. At the conclusion Barbara felt she knew what was best for my daughter and not the Psychologist. At the day of the hearing Barbara put into place a visitation schedule that had me only seeing my daughter at 30%. Requiring me to travel 20 miles for an afternoon visitation once a week for four hours. My weekend visitations I had to pick up my daughter at 7pm on Friday and have her back to her mothers by 8pm Sunday. She put into the order that I had to maintain any extracurricular activity that the mother put into place. To retaliate, the mother enrolled our daughter in any activity she could find that was local to her house. Gymnastics, Diving, etc... Basically she did everything she could to eat up any one on one time I would have with my daughter, and she made it a point to show up at each activity when I brought my daughter which made my daughter nervous about spending time with me. My daughter over the next two years got more and more frustrated with the schedule. Her mother was not going to compromise and my daughter withdrew from the close relationship we had. If came to a head in 2014 when my daughter stated she no longer wanted to spend time with me. All because Barbara failed to act in her best interests and failed to address the problems developing from her custody schedule. Even my daughter tried to plead with her after the case was finalized. I attempted multiple times to go back to court and have things changed but the Judge sided with Barbara's skewed assessment each time. I won't detail my daughters high school years other than I had to threaten the school with a lawsuit if they did not intervene and get her on track with her education. The mother could care less and if our daughter failed she was ok with that because she knew how important education was too me. Within five days of graduation my ex moved to another county and never notified to the court or myself as to where she had taken my daughter. It took almost eight months for me to find her. Barbara was non responsive when I contacted her office to inform her of this. Moving forward my daughter was going to a 4 year university out of state, (again I was never notified) and she lasted 3 semesters. Her IG account reflected a life of too much partying in school. She ended up moving back in with her mom which I knew was going to turn into a S show. Within about one year her mother kicked her out of the house, that was two years ago. So what became of my daughter. She is now a Stripper, does online Pay per view Porn, has a Only Fans Page
Shocked at the reviews on here maybe she’s getting old tired and senile . Huge waste of money! Does not do anything she’s legally supposed to do. She lies to judges with no shame. Does not care about family reunification only cares about money. We made a special court date to accommodate her and she didn’t even show up.