Karen Allison Howe

Look up the ongoing court case in Pasco County where my ex-wife hired Karen Howe, and you can see how things are going for Karen in this case. I filed a petition for modification, because my kids are being witheld from me, then Karen filed a motion to dismiss the petition for modification (Karen's mo...tion was denied). All Karen Howe has accomplished is lining her pockets, while dragging out a court case involving minor children for over four years, and losing every step of the way. I've seen my kids twenty times in eight years, and thanks to Karen, I have lost over four of those eight years with my children who are now teenagers. We had trial in January. Now we are searching for a supervisor for temporary time sharing, while awaiting the judge to issue an order. I chose to begin representing myself against Karen because she is a money pit, and after watching her in court I realized she's not very bright. I can't completely blame Karen, because when one or both parents refuse to co-parent, and fight over custody, the potential for an attorney to make a lot of money exists. Greed is a sin, and Karen Howe committed acts of greed at the expense of my children. Scott Dugan

My experience with Karen Howe similar to the other one star reviews. She is flat out, dishonest and incompetent. There is no way this individual should be practicing law any sort of way. She is not smart in any shape or form and is extremely unprofessional. Additionally, her fees were a joke. I went... through her billings and they didn’t even make sense. She built like $5000 for meeting that I’ve never attended. Run from this lawyer.

This lady (I refuse to call her a lawyer) should be immediately disbarred. Where do I start. 1) dishonest to a point of criminal behavior. I can’t prove that I was over billed on her legal documents but I can prove I was overbilled on phone calls. She’s so dumb that I counted the number of calls on m...y cell phone bill and there was less than 10 calls that she billed me for. IMPOSSIBLE!!! 2) Her legal documents were embarrassingly bad and appeared to be templates. I really think she goes on the Internet and takes legal documents off them and sells them as their own. She used the name “John Doe” Instead of my name in one of the documents in two places. 3) She was totally over matched in court. First off she was so underprepared it was embarrassing. She literally knew nothing about my case going into court and had to constantly look down at her notes. We lost every aspect of the case. I had to pay my legal fees, 100% of my ex-wife’s legal fees and had to pay even more than what they were asking for in child support. —- I am not one to complain but this was so ridiculous I had to make a formal complaint to the bar association. WHAT A JOKE!! Karen had answers for everything but never mentioned the phone call situation. The Bar Association didn’t even address the phone call situation. In their eyes it’s like it never happened. Unbelievable!!! Where do we turn to for help? It is like getting shot and robbed and having no police force to call. I literally caught her stealing!!! This lady cannot go on as a lawyer. She does irreparable harm. Do yourself a favor and make sure you get another lawyer. It is funny she has three 5 star reviews and the rest 1 star. Hmmmm.... I’ll make a bet those 5 star reviews are fake and are close friends.

Run while you can! Karen insisted on weekly $300 phone calls in which she ignored everything I told her and put words into my mouth. Later she negotiated with the opposing counsel on my behalf things that were benefiting my ex instead of me. She was not acting in my best interest at all! the only pr...oductive thing she did in my case was subpoena my ex’s 401k and even then she filed the paperwork with wrong name on it. She filed a motion without my consent after I repeatedly asked not to file anything on my behalf without prior discussing with me. Karen will charge you outrageous fees for everything including things you never asked her to do. She literally burned $3,000 on pointless phone calls and emails which she insisted on. I fired her after realizing that she will cause more harm than good to my case.