Crittenden Partners

MEN: DO NOT USE THIS ATTORNEY PRACTICE. YOU’D BETTER LISTEN TO ME. Remember when Mike Tyson said everybody has a good plan until the first punch in the face? You’d better learn from my bad decision to believe Crittenden’s fight plan. Pre-face-punch — I received false confidence and incorrect promises consistently, repeatedly for 14 months, about how things would end very favorably and reasonably, and how I wouldn’t lose this and that, and that I wouldn’t have to pay SPECIFIC monthly amounts when it was over, and also word-for-word that I wouldn’t ever have to sell assets or be in debt just to pay alimony et al….In the end, I’m paying EXACTLY the amount that I fearfully brought up in discussion one month into the process, and was repeatedly promised wouldn’t be the outcome. I’M SUFFERING the exact fears I had about selling assets JUST TO AVOID CRIMINAL LEGAL LIABILITY. FACE-PUNCH by the opposing counsel, and to the ground went my team — 16 months into the process, and yet COINCIDENTALLY when mediation was wrapping up and I guess we were getting beaten to a pulp, THEIR ADVISEMENT TO ME WAS THAT BECAUSE I HAD A PHENOMENAL COMMISSION YEAR LAST YEAR FOR MY FAMILY, THAT NOW THEY HAVE US OVER A BARREL WHEN IT COMES TO ANY FAVORABLE NEGOTIATION, regardless of the fact that I make 40% less this year, and regardless of that my ex makes $78,000-$90,000 annually — When it came to the bottom line on last day of mediation, after over a year of mistruths on my ~$550/hr, they advised me to capitulate over and over in order to avoid trial, and that it “would all work out”, and to just to take one hit after another, and be glad that I got 50/50 custody (after assuring me that this Judge almost always gives 50/50). On that last day, they said that “I WAS HAVING TO BUY CUSTODY WITH MY DAUGHTER”, which as it turns out is even a thing. I’m an amazing dad, and I’ll go broke to be with my daughter, but my ex shouldn’t get wealthy in the process. As I said, I make 40% less this year than I did last year (100% commission), but they told me that the situation of my ACTUAL CURRENT INCOME would have NO bearing on the case outcome for Alimony+Child Support, because “all that matters is last year, nothing current”. AFTER giving her half of our $1.3M in assets that I’d single-handed saved for us during our marriage, the opposing attorney then threw out an additional random, very desirable monthly alimony+child support number, and demanded that we either pay it or take it to trial. My attorneys had promised me for 2 months that we’d negotiate out of “their pie in the sky Starting-Number”. When push came to shove, the, began telling me to “be glad she didn’t still have Jessica Drennen or the number would’ve been higher.” THAT WAS WORD-FOR-WORD THEIR RESPONSE. Then the opposing atty demanded that we pay my ex’slegal fees, AND we pay 100% of the mediator, and all of my daughter’s expenses PLUS $1,000 a month (for I guess them to play and take trips??, because I pay all of her expenses). Crittenden rolled over again. IS THIS THE REPRESENTATION THAT YOU WANT? Hell no. So now, 7 weeks out from the divorce signing, I have $600 in the bank and am 2 weeks from a paycheck, and this STARTING THE MONTH $2400 IN THE NEGATIVE, before paying for my house note, all of my daughter’s insurance and school, and now my monthly expenses. I was made false promises over, and over and over. — They were able to bill me $42,000+ in hours while feeding me this constant bs. If I’d recorded our sessions of these guarantees, I’d be getting representation for malpractice. I REPEAT - MEN, DO NOT SEEK COUNSEL FROM THIS FIRM. They have no defense for you. Get that Drennan lady, get Anna Hart. Get SOMEONE ELSE. They will float you with promises until the actual negotiations begin, then shrug helplessly, and you will suffer to the tune of TENS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS, only to get hosed in the end. Don’t you dare say I didn’t warn you.

My ex has unfortunately been exploited by Deborah Gregory to the tune of $40,000 and has traumatized my kids with two and a half years of litigation in an attempt to manufacture a case to try and justify years worth of contempt and visitation interference. Imagine the feeling of blowing that kind of money only to have a judge say ‘you don’t have a case’ and ‘dad filed a petition a long time ago to clean this mess up’ in open court. Gregory even filed a false ‘emergency’ to suspend visitation in my case, and her own client even testified that my kid ‘was fine with visitation’ In effect, all Ms. Gregory has actually done is drag my children through years of nonsense only to come up short by insisting on trial again and again.