Spencer M Hecht

We hired Mr. Hect in January of 2011 to help us get custody of my granddaughter. This should have been a very timely case because he had more than enough evidence provided by medical Dr's and therapists relating to the sexual and emotional abuse of my 18 mo old granddaughter. He knew my son was a...n enlisted Airmen in the US Air Force and said he would give us a discount. When he found out my oldest son an AF Captain was having to pay the bill he immediately started doing paperwork for emergency custody (charging us huge fees) and then never filing the paperwork. Stating .. well... lets just wait since you will be getting her back in a few weeks. Anyone who knows about child abuse knows 1 minute more in a dangerous environment is 1 minute too many. He was verbally rude and down right nasty in emails where we questioned his course of action ,motives or the charges. We found out he was charging us as if he was doing all the work and in reality it was his associate and a para legal doing ALL the work. Every time he showed up for court he knew nothing about the case and gave a rudimentary explanation to the judge. This angered the judge and we fired Hect before we ended up losing the case. We then hired his FORMER associate who did all the previous work on the case and we won! Hect even went so far as to hold up sending the case file to his former associate hoping he would not remember but thank God he had done all the original interviews and work and was able to hit the ground running and didn't need the case file. We won full sole custody of my granddaughter but we spent an entire year in the court system when we didn't have to all so he could draw it out and collect enormous fees. We are currently reporting him to the DC Bar Association and hope to get some of the $35,000 back that he charged us.