Garnett Harrison

I retained Ms. Harrison in December to handle my high conflict custody case. My ex-husband has knowingly & willfully been in contempt for well over six months & Ms. Harrison assured me my case was solid & that I'd have no issue getting a judge to hold him accountable if I retained her, so that's what... we did. I paid 75% of her total fee up front & made arrangements to pay the last of it within the next month. Exactly two weeks & one five minute court appearance later she backed out of the case & refused to refund any of the money I'd spent to retain her. Every single conversation between us up to that point was taken by her as an opportunity to berate & curse at me followed by constant demands for more money. During that one court appearance not only did she not address a single issue, such as my ex making it absolutely impossible to see or even speak to my children for six months & the abuse allegations brought against him by DCFS just to name two of the many, but she dragged me out to the hall outside of the courtroom & told me to stay there while she proceeded to take my ex-husband & his attorney into a witness room where she made a deal with them without so much as asking me what I wanted or if I was even capable of what she was volunteering me to do (drive 18+ hours in a 24 hour period less than a month after having major back surgery, my second in four months - I hadn't been medically cleared to drive at all!). At no point did she ever ask what I thought was in my children's best interests or what I hoped to gain from taking my ex back to court. At no point did she bring up any of the terrible things he's done to my children & myself. She never even tried to represent me or my children's best interests & the second I addressed that with her she refused to take any of my calls or respond to my emails until nearly a week later when she withdrew from my case & said it was due to my insubordination.