Tenecia Pitts Reid

Tenecia Pitts Reid represented me during my divorce and a subsequent contested custody proceeding. She is thorough, professional, and excells at explaining particularly complex legal nuances in an intelligble manner. She was particularly adept at working through spousal and child support formulas. ... Not being from the Northern VA area orginally, I delberately sought out an attorney who was not from the area beccause in inteviewing others, i detected a sense of complacency in their attitudes. Tenecia was the exact opposite. Her attention to detail facilitated me reaching an equitable divorce settlement and eventually primary custody of my daughter. She was able to leverage procedural mistakes made by my ex-wife's attorney to my benefit. I would rehire her the minute I needed representation.

My experience with attorney Reid in handling a contested divorce was one of disappointment, frustration, and loss of confidence. Sure, initially I also believed that this attorney's claims to being a "skillful attorney". Unfortunately, that is absolutely not the case! To the contrary, she's not in...terested in her clients' best interest; as she is primarily interested in collecting money that she did not earn. She billed me a couple of times and I paid her in full. After that, she went on a vacation and told me to "call the police" if anything happens while she was out. After she came back from her vacation, I made several concerted efforts to work with her, but my emails and calls fell on deaf ears. She works on her own terms as she continues keeping her client’s case hostage. Subsequently, we had motions after motions and she showed up late on every hearing and made many lame excuses for her shortcoming. Unfortunately, I was worst off after I hired attorney Reid than before I started off with her. After I lost hope in her ability to handle my contested case, I decided to fire her for cause. In the end, she also made it extremely difficult to return all the documents I gave her to work on my case. I challenge attorney Reid's claims openly so that other clients would also not rely solely on her advertisements as I did.

As a father attempting to gain custody of my daughter, I felt the odds were stacked too heavily against me, but Tenecia gave me hope, not only with her legal expertise but her general demeanor. She was always very prompt and reachable and her rates were extremely fair for the amount of work she put... in on my case. I couldn't be happier with the outcome.