Alexandra Van Der Zee

It would be difficult to express how awful she was. My husband and I went to her with a very simply uncontested divorce. We were in agreement on everything and, although she could legally only represent one of us and we chose him, he made it clear to her that I was to be looped in on everything and t...hat this was collaborative. She continuously created problems where there were none, sent messages to him only, and asked me to leave the room when she spoke to him. When I called her out on it, she said that she was just "serving her client" even though her client was instructing her differently. She simply refused to consider this process collaborative. Even though we needed little more than paperwork done, she drew this process out for over six months without even filing a single thing. Her responses would take weeks and would simply say that she was "working on it" when there was nothing to work on. I got very upset at her several times during this process and it didn't change anything. Finally, she got the documents prepared for filing. My husband went in and signed and I went in separately. After signing the second to last form, she decided that she didn't like the tone I had with her and that she simply wasn't going to file it. Over six months of back and forth with this woman, Lord knows how much billing, and nothing but attitude and excuses from her, and she decides to simply not continue when I went in to sign the last document and told me to leave her office. I called my husband and told him what was going on. He called Alex and attempted to resolve the matter with her and she refused him as well, telling him that she wasn't going to "deal with me". Imagine refusing to file your client's divorce when everything was agreed upon because you "didn't like the tone" of the opposing party. We only chose her because she was a participating attorney in a legal insurance policy that we have. My husband was dumb enough to use her simultaneously in the process of legally adopting my adult daughter and she completely screwed that up as well. They got all the way to the final hearing and she didn't do her job so the case was dismissed. TLDR: My husband hired her to file an uncontested divorce and an adult stepchild adoption. He is neither divorced nor the legally adopted father.