Kathleen G. Galen

I hired Ms. Galen for many matters over the years. Most recently, I had to hire her regarding a situation with my ex-girlfriend who I have a child with. I am extremely satisfied with her services and think she is a good lawyer. Ms. Galen got me the rights that I felt I was entitled to including ex...panded parenting time. My ex was refusing to allow me to see my child, Ms. Galen got right on the case and got us into court and obtained an order allowing me to see my child and giving me joint legal custody. I was frustrated with the system and Ms. Galen made it less frustrating and handled my situation with care, concern and was right on top of matters. I think she is a good lawyer and I would highly recommend her.

I hired Ms. Galen to handle my divorce which included child support and child custody issues and I am extremely disappointed in how she handled the entire case. Ms. Galen told me at the beginning of my case that she would contact me weekly to give me updates and tell me about any progress that had ha...ppened with my case, I actually had to find out from my soon-to-be ex wife about ANY changes in hearings, paperwork that needed to be filed, or Friend of the Court updates. The only time I ever spoke to her was when I contacted her first, and then she would chastise me about perhaps giving my ex wife half of my retirement (we are both in our early 20s and she has a full time job), or the fact that since I asked my wife for a divorce that she had every right to be upset with me and everything she was asking for I should probably acquiesce to. Not only did she tell me personally that I was in the wrong, but she told my wife's attorney that she did not think highly of me and that I was "acting like a baby" throughout the whole case. When I confronted her about saying this, her only reply was, "It doesn't matter what my opinion of you is," - no denial or apology. I think if you hire someone to look out for your best interests and that person looks out for the opposition, that person is unethical and has a lack of integrity; if Ms. Galen thought that she couldn't represent me to the best of her abilities due to her personal feelings about my case, then she should have told me that up front. Not to mention the countless grammatical and spelling errors included in all of the official documents she prepared and then charging me to correct her own mistakes. I still haven't received my divorce decree because she said she had already gone "above and beyond" her duties and she was "done with this case" the day that the judge signed off on it. If you are a man, do NOT hire Ms. Galen to represent you in your divorce case, it is apparent to me now that she only feels sympathy for the female side in a child custody case and will not represent you fairly.

I was involved in a custody and visitation situation that had been stalemated for a couple of years. The attorneys that I had been using were only interested in "Pay Me", they were not interested in doing their job. I happened to be lucky enough to find Kathleen. She started in right away and got a s...et of conditions to move from supervised visitation to non-supervised. This was accomplished in a couple of months. Then it gradually moved to a point where I had joint legal and physical custody and more than normal visitation. She stopped my ex from moving to a distance of over six hours drive time away. She fought a very prejudiced FOC referee and got good results. I would recommend Kathleen to anybody for any reason that they need an attorney. It is my opinion that she is the most concerned lawyer I have ever had to deal with.

Kathleen was prepaired for trial and presented my case professionaly. She changed tactics to allow the truth to be herd and I felt she represented my voice well. Mine was a custody case that went to trial (very rare) but she was good at informing me of what I needed to do, what I should do, and what ...I should not do. Im a father who was awarded custody of my son and alowed to move 180 miles from Mt. Clemens to start my life over in the family business with my son. I have to give some of the credit to the judge who was wise enough to see through the smoke screen but Kathleen did an excellent job!