Kysa Meredith Crusco

Kysa was great from the beginning until the end. I called her and she called back in a short amount of time, we scheduled a time to call and went over my situation and she did give me free advise. I chose to hire her. Every time I had a question she was very quick with getting back to me and answ...ered my questions in a professional manner. She always kept me informed with what the plan was and always made sure I was satisfied with the action that was taken. I highly recommend her to anyone in need of a family divorce lawyer who knows what they are doing I really am thankful to kysa and her entire team for handling my case in very short time in a very good manner. She is very professional,and she is very knowledgeable with the system and she over all does an excellent job. I will for sure be contacting her for any future difficulties. She is detail oriented and is very professional and kept communication with me throughout the process and kysa let me know upfront if the path I was planning to take would or wouldn’t work which helped me stay grounded. Personally, I wish no one have to go through the painful process of divorce that I went through. To be honest, I found her name on-line when I was looking for an attorney to represent me - and I could not be more happy that I chose her as my attorney. She is experienced, extremely knowledgeable and very well-respected in all areas that she practices. She is hard-working and was never too busy to personally take my calls and answer any questions I might have. Just as important, she was able to secure extremely positive personal results for me in my case. I was always kept up to date on the status of my case - she is very worthy of the highest overall ratings I have given!! If you need competent, compassionate, professional and results-oriented legal representation now or in the future, please do not hesitate to call Kysa Crusco I guarantee that you will be glad you did. I have no regrets Kysa is best Attorney in New Hampshire and can Handle big challenging cases , Kysa will be the one attorney I can say will be fight until your satisfied.

Kysa did an excellent job for me. She was always responsive in a timely manor. She is a shrewd and capable negotiator and was able to avoid trial while managing to secure a good ending for me. At times it was frustrating for me as the the opposing attorney was not responsive and somewhat aloof. I nee...ded her help again after the divorce with child support and again I was quite happy with the outcome at mediation. I would and have recommended her services to others. She was quick to file motions and was able to secure an emergency hearing when my ex-wife stopped paying toward home expenses and put me in a financial bind. Not only did she help me financially but was able to keep me at ease during the whole process. I have now moved on. Kysa was able to help me make a complete financial break while allowing me to move away and have my son close by. My older daughter has decided to live with me. I sold the marital home and purchased a home closer to work and my children have remained with me.

Attorney Crusco talked a good game during the initial consultation, but turned out to be worse than having no attorney at all. After doing little to prepare my divorce case, she showed up to the first mediation session and sat mum while the opposing attorney suggested that my children would be better... off with my spouse having more than half time with them--after a long time with equal parenting (but with me providing more emotional and academic support for both children), and after my spouse had hit my older child, called my older child names causing him to be depressed with thoughts of self-harm, etc. I was forced at that session to argue against the other attorney myself, while Attorney Crusco repeatedly suggested to me that I meet the other attorney halfway. I was filled with misgivings after this mediation at her apparent lack of interest in my children's well-being and her sandbagging of my position, when I feel a more proper response would have been a harder line and a firmer bargaining position. At the next mediation session, things got worse. Within a short time Attorney Crusco had alienated my spouse to the point that my spouse threatened to leave mediation, and Attorney Crusco showed a lack of preparation for the mediation session as well. Nothing at all was accomplished at either mediation session, but I was later billed thousands, when the mediation sessions had only lasted for five to six hours. Following the second mediation, Attorney Crusco promised to draft a settlement offer letter, but failed to do so after an extended wait time; she promised to send the draft to me by a certain Friday, then left for personal leave for a week, and when she returned still took too much time to get a simple letter together. Then, when I asked for certain protections to be added to the letter she disregarded requests some of the time--seeming not to even read them--and drafted language which didn't protect me well at all. When I repeatedly asked that my concerns be addressed, she finally stated that she had drafted the letter and didn't intend in the end to put in my requested changes--and that I'd better approve her version of the letter if I wanted it sent. In the end, I couldn't put up with Attorney Crusco's non-performance and lack of proper attention to my case, so I was forced to fire 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.