Celeste M. Dunn

Ms. Dunn was hired on march 1 2021 to assist with child support modifications and parenting time modifications. My divorce was finalized in May 2019 and these were minor modifications as requested by my ex husband who has moved out of state since the divorce. I paid her $3,300 on 5/18/21, $1575 on 8/...17/21, and $2587.50 on 11/8/21 for her services. I never questioned her attorney time claims even though the fees seemed very excessive for minor modifications in child support and parenting time following an already completed divorce settlement in 2019 through oakland county. I thought all was said and done until I found out that the opposing counsel attorney never filed the changes that we agreed on (which I paid Ms Dunn a total of $7462.50 to help reach). Because of this delay, I received an overpayment in child support. To correct this, friend of the court submitted an incorrect IWN, thus completely withholding my child support for 3 months resulting in my being owed $7,000 in support payment. I reached out several times to Ms. Dunn about this. She was completely unavailable in the month of December for personal reasons, and did not respond to any calls, emails, or texts. She then stated that she had to refresh her memory since she was away and billed me for her review of the UCSO and calculations on 12/3/21 even though I had already paid her to do these things. Then, when I tried to call, text, and email her about my lack of child support payments in April, she was unresponsive for weeks. Lastly, the court scheduled a show-cause hearing as my ex husband was not willing to pay what he owed me. It was supposed to be 15 minutes long, and due to Ms. Dunn being unprepared, stating incorrect facts that were angering and confusing the referee, the hearing took 45 minutes, and I did not receive my court ordered child support at the end of it, because there was a focus on this distraction that Ms. Dunn kept referring to which was unrelated to the reason for the show cause hearing, and was actually completely wrong. I was shocked to receive a bill for 2.3 hours of attorney fee time, for a hearing which lasted .75 hours due to Ms. Dunn prolonging it, in addition to supposed preparation which never occurred as Ms. Dunn was stating incorrect facts. This hearing occurred on June 7 over zoom and was recorded by the referee, Libby Blanchard. I later found out that she did not even need to be at this hearing, and should have told me that as I'm sure this is not her first time hearing of a show cause hearing. I asked her if she needed to be there, and she said it depends on my comfort level, so of course, having zero experience with these things myself, I asked her to come, thinking it would be 15 minutes. I paid Ms. Dunn half of the bill she sent me, and told her I did not believe she was prepared and was incorrectly billing me for prep time. Ms. Dunn sent me numerous threatening emails saying she would SUE ME over $482 which I explained why I didn't believe I owed her, after I have already paid her $8K for mild nonsense modifications. Ms Dunn is unresponsive for weeks at a time, showed up to a hearing unprepared, stated incorrect facts prolonging the hearing, came to the hearing knowing that she didn't even need to be there just so that she could charge for it, and charged fees for preparation which never occurred. I do not think Ms. Dunn is fit or responsible or honest enough to practice law.

Attorney Dunn was much more than expected. She handled litigation for my service dog Logan. She's the most experienced attorney I've ever dealt with. Commanding other attorneys what to say and do. Her animal law experience is second to none. I was inspired to see a true honest and hard working pro...fessional amongst the many dishonest in today's justice system. Her expertise demanded attention in court and her knowledge of regulations and statues kept the litigation in play. Attorney Dunn is the type of professional that is so profoundly set apart from the others you know with her experience and expertise she is the only one to turn to within animal law.