Christopher E. Heberg

I originally hired Chris in March of 2019 to help me adopt my son. He told me the process wasn’t complicated and it should take about six months. I was unemployed and didn’t have unlimited resources so the price was very reasonable but I guess it’s true...you get what you pay for. My adoption case be...came final Nov. 12, 2020. Seems that the only way I could get Chris to respond to my emails was to threaten her with calling the Bar Association or something. I could never just get a timely response. One of the documents I had to provide for the court was my son’s original birth certificate. That had to come from the Philippines and it was not easy to procure. I gave it to Chris and the court says they personally handed it back to him the day my son’s adoption was final. Now, he can’t find it. I requested all my documents before the final hearing and Mr. Heberg said he would bring them all to me. The day of the adoption he did not. When I asked him what happened to my files he replied that he keeps them for many years. Then I found out that I’m actually entitled to have my files. Mr. Heberg didn’t respond to my subsequent requests for them (as well as my son’s birth certificate) until I’d informed him that I’d called the RI Board of Bar Overseers. As I write this today, I still don’t have my files but Mr. Heberg says they’re “in the mail”. He still says that he can’t find my son’s birth certificate and that’s pretty much the end of that, he’s done. My option here is to hire another lawyer to sue him to pay for my expenses in procuring yet another birth certificate. I’m so tired of this process but now, if I want my son’s birth certificate I have to go to court again? Agggggh. Buyer beware. If you hire Chris Heberg it will take you three times as long to resolve your case and get minimal response (if any) to your inquiries. Plus he may lose your original, important paperwork. I just don't want someone else to have to go through what I experienced with this lawyer.