Anna J. Matula-Evans

I was so proud that Ms Anna Matula-Evans was MY LAWYER during a dreadful divorce from my wife. Ms Matula-Evans is LGBTQ+ Literate and familiar with the newest laws and protecting our community’s rights which were formerly in place only for the straight people in our society. Living, and especially ...DIVORCING in Kingston & New Paltz, we need a legal scholar comfortable in handling these unfolding issues of law. Ms Matula-Evans knows her stuff so well she was ‘schooling’ all the lawyers in the room including the Judge! I don’t know about you but that’s the kind of lawyer I want on my side to fight against the ignorance that has been part of society for hundreds of years.

Mrs. Matula-Evans represented me in an Order of Protection case in Family Court in Dutchess County. I found her to be very knowledgable, patient & caring. She was my assigned attorney since the case involved domestic violence and you hear a lot of horror stories about free lawyers and that they jus...t push you through the system. I never felt that way with this lawyer. I felt like I was her lifelong client. I felt that I was being protected by our court system when I need it most.

I was satisfied with her and would recommend her. I hired her for my divorce from my husband after 25 years. She was up to date on most recent laws and I felt confident with her representing me. My husband's lawyer gave her a run for his money but she held up strong against him and I think scored ...better for me than my husband's lawyer did for him. Don't let her nice demeanor fool you, she's a tough cookie when it counts and it throws the other side off because they never see it coming.

The lawyer being described in all of these glowing reviews is a different person than the one who “represented” me so I’m in a state of disbelief. The one star reviewer talked about a lawyer who compromised her case and rarely spoke up in court. That was the same Ms. Matula-Evans I had. She was suppo...sed to represent me in a custody case. In the days leading up to the trial she tried various strategies to crush my confidence in the strength of my case. 2 years prior, I fell asleep at the wheel and caused an accident. I told police I had taken my prescribed anti-anxiety medication because I was being kicked out of my apartment early, the landlord had people there putting our stuff out into the rain, they let my cat out and my girlfriends step-father died-all in one day! I was already exhausted from the expedited move so the medication hit me harder than it normally would. Long story short-I was arrested and charged with impaired driving. Ms. Matula-Evans told me opposing counsel got ahold of body-cam footage from my arrest and that they were going to play it at the trial. The Dutchess County Sheriff’s Dept. answered that call in October of 2022 but, I later found out that they didn’t have or start wearing body-cams until March of the following year! She then accused me of lying to her about a misdemeanor conviction associated with that incident but that case was months away from a decision and I had a pending plea deal that was going to lower it down to a traffic infraction. I showed her proof of such but she didn’t acknowledge it. She said I should agree to giving my son’s alcoholic mother sole custody and when I didn’t agree to that, she dropped my case. She said it was because I had no chance of winning and I lied to her about the misdemeanor. She never intended on helping me fight for custody because I confirmed with 3 key witnesses that they were never subpoenaed to testify on my behalf at the trial. I recently viewed the full documentation that went with her formal request to be removed from my case and in it was an emailed statement stating she was making this request because of a recent explosive tantrum I had. Huh? Never happened. In this statement, she also told the judge that, in order to avoid prejudicing her client, she would not be including that page with the rest of the documents she would be serving upon all of the other parties but you can see that all of the other parties were CCed on that very email! There’s so much more but I think I’ve painted a clear picture of my experience. If the reviews here are really from former clients then I have to wonder why I got a deceitful, manipulative and condescending Anna Matula-Evans when I was always honest and respectful toward her. For anyone considering shelling out their hard earned money to hire this lawyer, I’d stop to consider which Ms. Matula-Evans you could potentially end up with.