Dennis M. Germain

I would like to give 10 stars if I could. My first lawyer had a heart attack and I received his assistant to handle my case. Needless to say everything went down hill from there. Dennis picked up the pieces and made my life so much easier. He comforted me with his knowledge and stopped the uncontroll...able crying. I can’t thank him enough for his compassion he showed me and for all of his help through that difficult time in my life.

I hired attorney, Dennis Germain, to assist me in my custody case. I am a mother of a young daughter. At the outset of my case, my daughter had been residing in Michigan with the family of her paternal father for quite some time, while I had been residing in Indiana. The child’s father and his orig...inal attorney initiated the custody case with a sneak attack. I contacted many family law attorneys in the Macomb County area inquiring about how to win primary physical custody of our daughter, and how to have her primary residence moved to Indiana with me. Every attorney that I spoke with essentially informed me that I had no chance of achieving my goals. Even the custody investigator in our case advised me that I had no chance for success. Finally, I was able to get in contact with family law attorney, Dennis Germain. Dennis informed me that achieving my goals would take a miracle, and would require a lot of patience and hard work on my part. He made no promises about results, but stated that he was willing to do everything he could to give me the best opportunity to achieve these goals. I hired Dennis and he did do “everything” and more to put me in the position to regain custody of my daughter. In the end, we pulled off a miracle, and I am now thankful to share that we succeeded in my goals! Dennis filed a motion to have Father’s first attorney removed from the case for conflict of interest, leading to the first attorney to voluntarily withdraw from the case. Once Father obtained a new attorney, Dennis went on a relentless pursuit of discovery. Dennis sent out subpoenas, interrogatories, requests to admit, and requests for documents to Father’s attorney, and to Father’s witnesses. Dennis and I conducted our own private investigations to get every piece of evidence available to support my case. Dennis conducted days of depositions, we gradually dismantled Father’s theories about the case. We caused Father and his witnesses to severely incriminate Father about important facts related to the case, and we shattered the credibility of his witnesses. Dennis engaged in hours of legal research with regard to the complicated aspects of my case. Dennis attacked Father and his attorney procedurally with motion after motion, outsmarting the other side and fighting for every inch to get us in the best position for trial. When Father repeatedly refused to comply with discovery and violated court orders, Dennis was able to get the judge to sanction Father to pay portions of my costs and legal fees. At the start of this case, Father and his attorney treated the case as an easy win for them. However, as the court case went on, and Father was handed one procedural loss after another, his morale began to weaken. At trial Dennis and I appeared with an extensive, organized trial brief, boxes of materials, exhibit binders, deposition transcripts, and demonstrative diagrams outlining our theory of the case. On the day of trial, Father folded and stipulated to 50/50 custody! About a year later, we started the case again, and Dennis and I were back in action. Again, Dennis did a complete analysis and intake regarding all of the factual updates to my case. We went to mediation highly prepared with the goal of persuading the mediator, Father, and his attorney that Father was going to have no chance against us at trial. And that is exactly what happened! Father eventually conceded and signed a consent order in my favor. I was finally able to achieve my ultimate goal of gaining primary physical custody of my daughter in Indiana, particularly during the school year. Dennis had a very deliberate, complex, and long-term strategy from the start. It was difficult to be patient, but we stayed the course, trusted the plan, and a little over two years, it paid off. We won!I am thankful for Dennis’s services. I am highly satisfied with his legal services. JF Proud mother, wife, A&P Mechanic

Dennis is amazing at what he does. He is not the typical attorney stereotype at all. He made sure to give me all the information upfront and ran through the possible outcomes with me to help make a better choice. He gave me advice that was more like coming from a friend then a lawyer. He stayed up to... date on the case and called me frequently to insure all his information for the case was correct. This guy went up against 2 lawyers in my case. I must admit I was a little nervous seeing 2 lawyers on the defendants team by not Dennis. He looked at me and said no worries we got this. To hear that confidence from your lawyer is very reassuring. Long story short Dennis followed through on his promise and we won the case just as we did the previous 2 cases. Thank you Dennis you didn’t just win for me you win for my kids!