Steven Cripps

Mr. Cripps advertises as a flat fee attorney . This is so he can justify, in his own mind, doing the bare minimum of work to benefit his client . Mr. Cripps encouraged me to settle for the standard visitation agreement for fathers. This is equivalent to four to six days a month. Mr. Cripps advised m...e to pay child support based on this visitation schedule . My ex wife and her attorney loved Mr. Crips. He was willing to concede to her every demand. I finally hired a different attorney. For the past two years I have had my children every Friday , Saturday , and Sunday . Also I have not paid any child support because with a holiday schedule I have had 50% of the visitation . The divorce is not finalized but I have a good chance of having 50% shared parental responsibility with minimal support going to the ex which would never get spent on the children. Mr. Cripps does not return calls, keep appointments, or demonstrate professionalism in any shape or form. He is very good at endorsing and cashing retainer checks.

During my divorce, he NEVER brought 1 piece of evidence to court, of child abuse or neglect from my husband toward my children. He had video, emails, pictures & SOLID PROOF of the abuse & neglect. It was blatantly obvious BUT he didn't even show up with the proof. He walked into court empty handed ...& basically blind-folded because he apparently doesn't even read his emails or messages, refuses to return phone calls. This was an easy case to win & HE BLEW IT by not being prepared or even caring!!! He couldn't even cross-examine my husband on the stand because he never spoke to me & had no clue of the case or the situation my children had been suffering through. He just sat there in silence, as I was DEFENSELESS & my CHILDREN SUFFERED! NO CHILD or Mother should EVER have to suffer due to the irresponsibility of an attorney! It's been over 6 months my children have suffered & not been able to see their own Mother, living in abuse for NO REASON AT ALL!!!! This is uncalled for. The system is broken & he made it worse. I was also held in contempt due to documents he never mentioned that I needed to file as well as, NOT filing the documents I sent to him that were requested by the courts. I had to pay contempt fines due to his negligence! If any other company did this to their clientele, they'd be out of business & shut down by the government. How he gets away with it, is beyond me! RUN from him....DON'T WALK. DO NOT HIRE THIS ATTORNEY, HE WILL DESTROY YOUR FAMILIES LIVES with NO REGARD, blaming everyone else involved!!!!! All these reviews here are TRUE & CORRECT! I witnessed his incompetence, 1st hand & now my family suffers from it! I will be defending myself from this point since he took all of my money & I can no longer afford another attorney SAVE YOUR MONEY, SAVE YOUR TIME, SAVE YOURSELF THE HEARTACHE!!!!! You will spend more time and energy fighting with this attorney to try & get him to do something than you will fighting your own spouse to protect yourself.

He did not show up for court dates and the one time he did show he was completely unprepared.. He barely EVER returned ANY phone calls or emails. He filed absolutely NO DOCUMENTS with the court on my behalf and was completely non-responsive. He basically TOOK a few thousand dollars and HURT me and my... case way more than I can believe. DO NOT HIRE THIS GUY. He is completely irresponsible.

Mr. Cripps was hired to simply terminate alimony upon remarriage. This process took 13 months for a simple statutory case. Mr. Cripps is incredibly unresponsive and showed up to a mediation appointment 1 hour late and completely unprepared. He fails to return calls, "no-shows" for appointments and... has zero follow through. The one striking situation that occurred is that Mr. Cripps failed to notify me of a hearing scheduled by my ex-spouses attorney and then failed to show himself resulting in me being imposed sanctions and fees via a summary judgement last July. Mr. Cripps stated that he "told" the judges office he could not attend and didn't realize the hearing took place. He also stated he was going to take care of the situation immediately. I found out a few weeks ago that he NEVER did a thing and I have been accumulating sanctions since last July at $200 per day. As is consistent with Mr. Cripps I have been pleading with him for updates and next steps but with little to no response.