Jason Robert Dipasquale

Jason Dipasquale

I am shocked by this client's review and the picture he portrays me to be. Custody Case: When he came to me, he was facing Family Offense and Custody Petition. The Family Offense for allegedly placing a stalking device in his ex-gf car, tracking her, and punching her in the face in front of the kids amongst other allegations. In spite of this, I obtained temporary 50/50 custody in family court at first appearance. Thereafter, when the case was not going the Mother's way, she had him criminally charged and arrested for assault, amongst other charges and the case was transferred to IDV court. At the first appearance there, it went from 50/50 to supervised based on the Judge's sua sponte decision and the AFC position over my opposition. I filed a Motion and had that Judge recuse herself and it was transferred to another Judge who scheduled a trial but kept supervised. Before that, I made an emergency appeal to the appellate division to try and overturn the first IDV judge's decision to no avail. The appeal was dozens of pages long and contained voluminous case law. Client had copy of all of this. After that, with new Judge, conducted a 5 day trial over many months, including, expert testimony and parties settled with unsupervised and substantial visitation. This client, with another well-respected attorney, plead guilty in criminal case and Order of Protection was in place. In spite of that, i obtained near 50/50 access. Whilst all this was going on, filed a civil case for engagement ring back and other personal property years pre-pandemic. Many pre-trial conferences, two judges, depositions were held, I went to Reeds with other attorney to get ring appraised, and after years of litigation, client signed a Settlement Agreement and obtained ring back and some other personal property. Years of litigation, dozens of conferences, depositions, pleadings, phone calls, emails, even on vacation, after hours, text messages during this time, and successful settlement post pandemic and did thousands of dollars worth of legal work and accepted modest payment of $1,500. I did not charge him more as he was a good client and I felt bad for his situation but easily could have charged more like others. In 2019, he was facing a violation petition and we filed modification petition, and an Amended one, and the case went into the pandemic. I had motions to respond to because he did not comply with discovery he said on Petition he claims was never filed. He was on the oral argument with other court watchers in connection with that. I had to respond to discovery, send out discovery, had numerous conferences, respond to motions, numerous text messages, emails and phones calls during the pendency of the Petition he claims was never filed. The Judge and the children's lawyer were not supportive of his Petition or more time because of his conduct, behavior, including, but not limited to, posting a picture of his ex-gf's former lawyer on social media of her behind with unflattering comments, other alleged violations of the Court's Order, etc. Unfortunately, prior to trial on the Petition he claims was never filed, I had to withdraw due to illness that I could not help. I did many thousands of dollars worth of work that he was never charged for because I am not about drowning in people in legal fees and do care and try my best for every client as I did with this client. I have all the emails and text messages saved over five years to show responses after hours, late at night, or while I was on vacation with my family. If anyone has questions about me, please call and do not go off this review or the others this client is encouraging others to write most are not clients of mine.