Victor J Cavallo

Victor Cavallo

Mr. Robles: would you continue to work for your employer if he refused to pay you after showing up for work day after day, week after week? Would you skip paying your mortgage on your house and not expect consequences from the bank? Not likely, yet that’s what you expected of me. . You retained me because you wanted custody of your child whose mother had a history of substance abuse and you believed that the child was not safe in her custody. . I devoted more than 24 hours of rendered services – the equivalent of three full work days- on your case, including 13 hours in court and many other hours writing and filing motions, and hours on the telephone with you and the child’s attorney, all by way of ensuring that you obtained custody of your child. . As a result of my services, you got custody of your child but you tried hard to avoid paying me for my services. . I sent you the first invoice in April, 2013 which you ignored and made no payments on and made no complaints about my services. Three months later, I sent a second invoice in July, 2013, which you ignored as well and made no payments on and made no complaints. One year later, in August, 2014, I sent another invoice and you ignored that one, as well. . I referred the matter to an attorney as a last resort to get you to respond and hopefully discuss any disagreement with my invoice and come to a mutually agreed balance and payment arrangement but you ignored him, as well. You gave the attorney no choice but to go to court and in early 2015 the judge ordered you to pay a mere $35 per week over three years. You ignored the court order, as well, for over a year and a half. Only after you ignored everyone and every attempt to come to an amicable resolution over nearly three years, did the lawyer take the drastic step of filing a judgment lien. And it was only after that that you responded and paid. I received less than what you owed—but you also paid more than you had to. If only you had just been more responsive a lot sooner, all this could have been avoided.