Cindy L. Thomas

My son had a consultation with Cindy Thomas regarding custody and child support for his children. Cindy did not give him an approximate amount of the child support he would pay at time of consultation, but said it would be "a lot". When my son called a few weeks later and asked for a more definitive... amount, he was told he could make another appointment which would cost him another $100 to get the answer. Wow. Good thing he consulted with attorney Tom Shaffer in Marshall. It took his staff less than 5 minutes to plug in the numbers and give him an answer. And, Shaffer's consultation fee was only $75. Wish we would have thought of Shaffer from the beginning, as with 50+ years of practice, this guy is a bulldog with a great success rate in the cases he tries in court. By the looks of Shaffer's desk, he's a busy busy attorney who certainly doesn't need this shout out to feed his family by any means. We just are thankful someone informed us of the great work he does, and that we got a second opinion. If Cindy Thomas was going to charge another $100 to get a 5 minute answer to an answer we should have gotten at the consultation, I hate to think how much money my son would have incurred with her fees had he chose to have her represent him. Good luck to anyone who seeks her representation. I hope you have a fat wallet as you're most likely going to need it.

I decided to use Cindy for my divorce through a suggestion by a family member who had used her before. She was very rude, and generally didn't care about the scenario on what was going on, just what would soak up time to make her money. I feel like she took advantage of me, and I paid her 3500 and sh...e burned through that in two months with paperwork and 2 court hearings. She withdrew as counsel and has proceeded in harassing me for money as I have a balance still due on my account. Lady, I'm broke. I pay over half of my income to child support because you wanted to withdraw, and now she's threatening to sue me for the 1200 or so I still owe? Stay away. Stay far, far away.

Never would I encourage anyone to use this lawyer:( My child custody case she got half of what I was asking for and that was standard! Yes I said that right..... she got me half of what was already entitled to me! She acted like she was dong me a favor by her being there:( Did she seem to forget I wa...s the one who handed her the money? (almost $2,000) I figured her high stakes would better representation, boy was I wrong! Not to mention she helped nothing with the support part of this.... where did I go wrong? All I was asking for was more time with my son in the summer months because the mother only gave me every other weekend and nothing more. I watch my step kids go with their dad and he doesn't even take them the time he's allowed, god what I would do to have that with mine!! She acted like I was wasting her time with my sob story, good luck if you use her