Carolyn Elaine Powers

Carolyn took one of my moat challenging experiences and made it 10x worse. In 2015 I retained Caeoly to assist me in filing for divorce from my now ex-husband. It was to be a simple divorce as we did not have much shared or contested property. The only major point of contention was the custody of... our young child, as we had agreed to no spousal or child support. After paying the initial retainer things seemed to be going okay; however after only a court hearings and emails to my ex's attorney she had burned through the initial retainer. Ok. I place more money to retain her. During this time my ex agrees to let me back into the apartment which I was an occupant on. We set up a date, time, I rent a moving truckand get my family to take off work to help me get my belongings. As I am preparing to leave my ex text me and says je does not want me in the apartment. I immediately call and email Carolyn, who knew I was to get my belongings that day, to ask what I should do. I did not hear from her, but did hear from the apartment place who said my name was on the lease and he could not stop me from entering. The police were called to ensure that there were no issues and that I only took what was mine and the our childs. There were no issues. When I arrived back home I saw a message from Carolyn stating that I should not attemp to get my belongings; however the message was sent long after I had contacted her and even after the issue had been resolved, which I let her know. I then receive an email from her stating that she was dropping me as a client because I went against her advice! And she kept my retainer that I had just reloaded. I was devistated and also had to find money for a new attorney. Luckily a family friend was able to help me out. When she took over my case she was able to see that there was things Carolyn didn't file and emails that hadn't been returned, that was dragging my divorce out. My new attorney helped me wrap up things quickly. I would not recommend Carolyn. I felt she took advantage of me, was either scared of my ex's attorney or less qualified, took my money and ran. If it wouldn't have cost me more money to get my money back from her I definitely would have looked more into it. Do yourself a favor and save you money by not falling victim to Carolyn Powers.