Danya Ledford Vanhook

I had hoped when I initially hired Ms. Vanhook that because she had been a former family court judge that she would know all of the ins, outs, loopholes, and best ways to sway judgements for her clients. She doesn't. I thought because she was a mom, that she would be sympathetic for my particular sit...uations and predicaments, she wasn't. I thought because of time constraints and my location she would work hard to fast track my case, nope. I actually felt like she was partnering with my ex's attorney to keep continuing the case so I could not get custody of my son, and told her so. Firing her did not make it clear I was done with her lack of professionalism and assistance. She took money from me to do a job that wasn't done. I stopped paying her and told her that there would not be another dime until she got me to court. I feel she should refund my money, as I did her job myself. The most she did was file a motion for me, that I paid for, and appear in court for the weekly sorting of cases and agree with counsel to continue continuing the case. I don't think that was worth what I paid, as that may have equaled less than 30 minutes of time dealing with my case alone. She never, in her tenure on my case, let me know my son needed to be subpoenaed to appear, he's 12. She never truly gave me the information I asked for and rarely took it upon herself to contact me. Firing her twice didn't make a dent for her to withdraw, until I took matters in my own hands with a judge. Don't use this attorney for child custody/divorce. Ms. Vanhook does not put the needs of her clients first. If you want updates or questions answered, you have to contact and contact and contact Ms. Vanhook before you get an answer, which is probably a half-truth answer at best. I got myself on the docket for my custody trial. I may not be an attorney, or handled myself perfectly in court, or was told I had to subpoena my son, so he did not get to include his voice and let the court know how he felt, but I got the job done and I am now waiting on my court order from the judge. I am glad this is over and no matter what happens, I know it's more than I could have expected from Ms. Vanhook based on Ms. Vanhook's previous work and care on my case. I had to give her at least one star, but in my opinion, deserves none.

After having Danya in a case where I was the plaintiff, she met me immediately and got down to business and even allowed for multiple payments since I didn’t have it all immediately. I hired her in quickly learned that it is good to have someone within the local court system who knows everyone, es...pecially other attorneys, and I learned that she once was a judge herself - what I personally discovered is that when the case suddenly became about five different types of cases from child support to custody to divorce to criminal, to being a plaintiff in a criminal case as well as terrible DEPOSITIONS-immediately, she was on -the- ball and working with me in a type of war-room situation - I will say that the courts and everyone took me a little bit more serious, then graduated into way more serious when I had an attorney handling things. But, she seemed to know everyone in the system and really did her homework to develop her own take on the situation. Ultimately, I got exactly what I asked for on day-one. She even answered my call in an erroneous arrest situation, and discovered a key point in that a warrant was issued without a judges signature - I have her on standby even to this day, and the cool thing was is that she handled all of this while I was living in another state. I love Danya. I would highly recommend her, she will keep you honest and follow the law, and she really knows the law . She will work with you and anyone who has ever left her a negative rating, more-than likely did something to warrant the law to make the proper decision