Michele Lynne Bermel Esq

As an advocate for my daughter, Michelle was very well-prepared and honest regarding visitation issues. She was a good listener, especially when it came to figuring out what my daughter really wanted to communicate vs. what she was told to say by her mother. My attorney was as impressed as I was at... Michelle's experience and expertise in dealing with children.

I don’t usually post reviews but I wanted to share my experience with Michelle Bermel who was assigned to be my son’s lawyer during my divorce last year. He is mildly autistic and doesn’t do well with strangers and I was worried about how he would react to this difficult situation. In a nutshell, Ms.... Bermel was extraordinary. She visited our home on two separate occasions and spend over an hour each time getting to know my son and making him comfortable enough to speak with her. She even agreed to hold his pet snake and that was an incredible icebreaker. In court it was obvious that Ms. Bermel was very in touch with what was best for my son in terms of visitation, school and vacation times. A year later my son still remembers the lady who visited him that he thinks of as his friend. Thanks, you, Michelle Bermel.

If you are facing a contentious custody situation, you need an immovable force who will stand up for your children when neither parent can see past their own rage. Michele Bermel was precisely that advocate for my kids. My spouse did everything in his power to sway all legal forces against me, incl...uding using his business relationships. Michele made sure her clients - my kids - were protected from his attempts to manipulate them. Take her hand, trust her decades of experience, and rest easy knowing your children are in the care of the absolute best in the field.

From my experience, she skewed our conversations to support her decisions. Often she wouldn’t follow parent coordinator protocols; she’d rehash issues that were already decided, engage in lengthy one-one conversations, and broach topics that weren’t hers to decided all of which ended up costing m...e $20,000 a year. She’d regularly bill three months late and repeatedly promised to bill more timely and never did. She became irate with me when I couldn’t pay and told me that I could open up another credit card to pay her because her husband was out of work and she needed a new roof. She was friends with the other sides attorney and never disclose that to me. They were even Facebook friends. The judge called into question her decisions which she had no supporting evidence for and reprimanded her several times. Thankfully, the judge removed her. Michelle asked if she could stay on even after the judge removed her. Both sides said no. She have to make up that income elsewhere maybe actually work for it.