Timothy Eric Bellew

We hired Mr. Bellew to represent my fiancé in a criminal case, which we believed to be open and shut based on the fact that the officer who wrote the complaint, falsified his in the police report. When I first spoke with Mr. Bellew, he told us he was interested in taking on my fiancé's case but ...that he would need to be paid first. We told him that we would bring him a money order for the payment, and he requested that we bring him cash. When we met him at the court house he was extremely unprepared for our meeting. Not only did he not bring any type of contract for us to sign, he also "conveniently" forgot to bring a receipt for the payment we gave him. Instead he scribbled on the back of a business card that he received money from my fiancé. At the meeting we provided him with all of the documentation we had regarding my fiancé's case, including the falsified police report, AND A MOTION TO DISMISS that was filed by the city prosecutor yet never entered into the docket. The following Monday my fiancé had a status call hearing with the court. We informed Mr. Bellew of this date and he said he would be there. Not only did he show up late for the hearing, when he got there he didn't bring up any of the things we talked about him bringing up while he was in the courtroom. During the following 3 weeks we tried on several different occasions to contact Mr. Bellew via telephone by calling both his "office" number and his "personal cell phone" number (which was his one day, but the following day a woman answered saying we had the wrong number.) The only contact we did receive from his was via email. We asked several times in emails for him to file various motions and he would say he would but then actually didn't file anything. We asked several times to come to his office to sit down to go over things before the court trial. But he wouldn't set up a time. He never bothered to subpoena witnesses or even ask questions about the case. He did however email us telling us he wanted another payment. He wanted us to pay him via PayPal. The day we received the request to pay via paypal we tried to call him 11 times. We left messages saying we didn't feel comfortable paying via PayPal, and that we would be willing to meet him in person with the payment and to go over paperwork that he claimed to have received from the city, but that we still have yet to see. At one point he told us he would meet us in our town AFTER we paid him via PayPal. Why not just let us bring him the money? He doesn't seem to have an actual office, as the address he uses is a PO BOX. He doesn't return phone calls or bother to let anyone know what is going on with their case. But he will take your money in a second! And he always wants more regardless of the fact that he isn't actually doing any work on the case in question.

I had one attorney for a divorce who did nothing, and I mean nothing. Did not file an answer to the divorce complaint, did not file any motions - I mean did nothing. Tim took over the case, immediately filed an answer to the divorce complaint, motions for me to force my ex to register the car so I ...could drive, good visitation order. The outcome of the divorce was great, I got everything I wanted. Great job!

Avoid Tim Bellew at all costs. I paid him to do a simple uncontested divorce. I paid him up front to get this done. Once I got a hold if him to pay the filing fee he claimed he would file it the next week. He never did. He then mentioned he sent in the filing. He never did until I called him out abo...ut it and said I was going to contact the court. When I called, which was ten days after he said he mailed it they said he literally was just there filing 45 mins before my call. Now I cannot get him to respond to any calls or emails. This guy lies and is truly unethical. I am now wondering what to do next as I cannot afford another lawyer and I don't know what the next steps are that need to be taken. He has left me high and dry and I'm debating whether to report him to the Ohio Bar Association. I don't know what issues this so called attorney has other than ripping people off. From the other reviews it seems he likes screwing people over. Looks like I need to make a stand so people like him don't take another dime from people. He shouldn't be allowed to practice law.