Kysa Meredith Crusco

After consulting with many attorneys I was discouraged. No lawyer I talked with thought that I could achieve the legal results that I wanted. I found Attorney Crusco, and she told me that she would try and was hopeful that I could get what I hoped for. In the end, I got exactly the legal results I ha...d hoped for. I am very grateful to her.

I learned a lot from Kysa, and she was always willing to explain anything I didn't understand. I was always glad to see her, thankful that she was on my side, and relying on her to say exactly what I was thinking, but couldn't put into words. Her motions were crafted so beautifully, covering all the... points I wanted to make to the judge. Her arguments were so logical and obvious (once she point them out) that it was impossible to see how we couldn't win every time. In fact I don't think she lost a single motion out of dozens she filed on my behalf over three years (except for the ones demanding attorney's fees :>). When I became emotional and irrational, she still listened to me and got information out of my ranting. When I whispered a question to her in court she knew exactly what I meant and put my point on the record. I could not have asked for a better representative to state my side of my divorce battle. It is vital to stress that though my case went to trial, Kysa worked every angle to avoid that. She told me that a divorce trial is rare, and rarely worth it (my words, not hers). She tried extremely hard to help us reach a settlement that I could live with. At one point, during a shuttled mediation session, she helped me come to grips with each offer and counter-offer, and it looked like we were making progress. But when I saw the final result on paper, I realized I could not live with it. Kysa advised me to think it over, overnight, and advised the mediator that I was reconsidering my last offer to my ex, which must have been difficult after hours and hours of negotiation and being so close to settling. When I told her the next day that I knew exactly why I could not live with it, and explained it to her, she backed me up 100%. She didn't try to push me one way or another - she just made sure *I* knew the implications of what I was saying, and put it into action. I have to mention that it was a pleasure to watch her question witnesses and make them say exactly what she wanted them to say. For example, when I was accused of causing emotional distress, she forced my ex to admit that there was literally *no* evidence of that (e.g., therapy, doctor visits, sleeplessness, etc). Finally, again I say that I was always happy to see Kysa, even when things seemed bad. I guess I knew that even if I lost in the end, there's no way anyone could have presented my case any more clearly. If I was going to lose it would be because the judge wasn't paying attention, or my ex's attorney was successful at demonizing me, or whatever; it *wasn't* going to be because I didn't have my full say. I *did* have my say. Because of Kysa.