Steven Cripps

I hired Mr. Cripps because the stress and anxiety from my divorce had taken a toll on me when suddenly my ex just stopped paying all support ordered to care for our children. I needed someone to take over and fight for me, not against me. Unfortunately in dealing with him, I didn't get what I needed.... Instead, I felt that being a divorce lawyer made him dislike women, or if not women, it made him bitter in general. Mr. Cripps would just talk over me, cut me off, wouldn't listen and just constantly interrupted me. I found this so frustrating, and increasingly infuriating as time went on dealing with him, but I had given him the agreed upon fee, which was a lesser amount than most lawyers were requesting. He made a horrible situation worse. He dropped the ball a few times, for example he was filling out papers in the court room that should have already been filled out before. I finally told him off, not once, but twice for constantly talking over me and being so condescending, but also for an insensitive, rude and incorrect summation of the relationship I was in at the time. As if he was privy to the subject, nor was it any of his business. Very insensitive and inappropriate. Again, my need for an attorney was due to my ex refusing to pay his court ordered child support and alimony while I was trying to rebuild my life and career. Such a stressful time and he added to the stress. He showed no empathy. In addition, I lost. My support went way down. I was now in major cc debt because that's all I had to pay for food, mortgage, car, and all other living expenses, with no relief coming now to cover the cc debt I had accrued over the almost 2 years my ex didn't pay, and Mr. Cripps disappeared. Never to be heard from again after leaving a voicemail telling me we'd go after other savings that was hidden away somewhere. Someone else wrote it well above, he gave me a cut rate, so I got cut rate service.

I hired Steven to help me with a modification of permanent alimony, which is very difficult to stop completely. Steven made a difficult situation much easier with his experience and expertise. I wound up winning my case and I no longer have to pay my former wife anything ever again! It feels lik...e I won the lottery and I couldn’t have done it without Steve! Steve is a very down to earth person and also very humble. When I walked into the courthouse with him, everyone knew him and seemed to really like him and respect him. By the way, he won’t tell you this but he has his doctorate in law.

During my divorce Steve seemed to have a no care attitude. I have two children with disabilities and all he wanted to achieve for me was child support. He never offered that I should have alimony. Seventeen years of marriage and all he could tell me was I can't get blood out of a stone! His favorite... saying. Well ex husband now makes 50,000 a year and Steve should have suggested alimony at the time for him to pay especially since I helped my ex get that job he has. I now work two jobs because of Steve's lacking support. Per Steve I signed the divorce papers. Wish I had dropped him and looked for a better attorney. Wasted my money.

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.