Caitlyn Samantha Stubbs

Ms. Stubbs was very kind, gentle and professional while helping me with my case. She explained things to me the way I could understand them instead of talking over my head during such a difficult process. Her paralegal, Ms. Lloyd was equally as kind and knowledgeable and made a difficult situation seem almost effortless.

Caitlyn and her assistant Nikki were terrific. They were there for me when I needed them and always had the answers to my questions. While divorce is never easy it helps when someone is there to help you through the rough spots.

I hired her to represent me although I believe she is a good person I wouldn’t recommend her. During trial she became choked up and unable to gather thoughts regarding questioning while I her client was on the stand. She kept apologizing and it was highly unusual situation and somewhat uncomfortable and embarrassing. I’m unsure if she was having a bad day or didn’t prep appropriately. Both I and the Judge seemed annoyed by this. Although she was stern with lies while examining opposing she didn’t push.

My experience with Caitlyn was for an Uncontested Divorce. My spouse and I had seemingly agreed to many items and had drafted our own Property Settlement Agreement. Going through the process with Caitlyn's assistant Nicole ("Nikki") was a nightmare. In the beginning I only had 1 over the phone consultation and spoke with Caitlyn. She gave me great insight into Family Law matters and explained the process of how to file an uncontested divorce. However when I started the process, I mainly dealt with just Nikki. The first issue arose when my spouse emailed me his notarized signed copy of the PSA, and I forwarded it to them. My copy was the original hard copy that was turned in to them in person. It was days before I heard back if they received both and could confirm they were able to move onto the next step. Finally I heard back from Nikki in an email only saying "We have to have the hard copy signed paperwork from your spouse, have him resign and bring it to us". Now if any of you are like me and my spouse- we were not on very good speaking terms. Plus, he is just slow at "getting things done" in general. So it had already taken me 3 weeks to get him to sign the first one, now I had to go back and ask him to find his original paperwork, bring it to me or mail it, or bring it in to them....which I knew he wouldn't bring it to my lawyer so I had to wait for him to give it to me. That set us back another week. Had I known from the beginning, obviously that time would not have been lost. There was no instruction about specifics and what needed to be done in what manner. Just fee agreements and intake paperwork for the firm as a whole. So then the paperwork was all put together and my date to file for divorce based on my 1 yr of separation was 4/29 and the paperwork was filed May 6th. Not too far off, which was pleasing. I knew a case number should be assigned fairly quickly so after a couple days I emailed asking if we had a case number yet. The entire process on avg for an uncontested divorce should have taken 2 months max, by the way. It was then almost another week, going on 2 I believe until I had a response at all from the firm if we had a case number...absurd. Finally the paperwork was mailed out to my spouse. He ended up going out of town on vacation the day his paperwork to be signed came in the mail. So that delayed it another week from him even signing it. At this point my spouse wasn't speaking to me at ALL barely (and we have a minor child so it was very complicated) and he would not answer me after his vacation if he signed his divorce paperwork. So after about 3 weeks of him receiving it, and hearing nothing from him or the attorneys office, I emailed the firm (Nikki) asking if they had received my spouses signed paperwork. Again.....4 days go by and I have no response. None. I sent an email again and needed to set up a consultation for custody court purposes with Caitlyn.....this would have been a 3rd consultation, still had not retained yet. After 4 days of not hearing I sent another email asking for the consult & checking again about status of divorce.....its going on 1.5 months with 3 steps left in the process all about 1.5 weeks long each step....so this uncontested divorce was dragging. I still heard nothing from Nikki- and Caitlyn was always copied & never responded either...finally Nikki called me with an excuse that she was waiting for approval from management for 3rd consult. Meanwhile my spouse still wasn't signing the paperwork and in that phone call Nikki finally told me they didn't get anything. At this point I was furious with the firm and their lack of communication and feeling neglected. I felt like Nikki always ignored my emails and she would lie saying that "she sent me a reply" but I never got anything. I tried 2 times speaking to management and left a message with the manager, Becky, but never heard back from her either. DO NOT USE Caitlyn if she still has Nikki...otherwise Caitlyn was decent.