Matthew Jacob Bailey

Paid a $4000 retainer for a lay up child custody case. I did some research and asked about filing an EX PARTE since the other parent took the kids and wouldn't let me see them. Matt advised that that wouldn't be a good idea and we should go the normal route that takes months. By the time I realize...d he was incompetent and couldn't be paid to care it was too late to file an ex parte and they used the fact I didn't file an emergency order against me. I ended up spending $12,000 with another attorney Mr. Kroll who was a shark and was more engaged. Bailey essentially stole $4000 from me and provided no services. He sucks. Please if you see this review have him work on contingency or something because paying him up front is just so he can take the money and bill it all away with out ANY ACTION AT ALL. I'm about to get full custody with all the facts and evidence of the case, thanks for nothing and taking the money from me Bailey. Do you read your reviews across the net and wonder why you are so uniformly poorly rated?? My mother said ignore the reviews it's only upset people who leave bad reviews when it happens they lose, sorry mom you were wrong, wish I had listened to the reviews on avvo and Google. I went 8 months without seeing my kids due to this lazy clown and the fact he didn't do as I even advised him to do, and it was used against me. "You didn't file an ex parte so you must not have been that worried about them in other parents care" Oops!!!!!

I hired Mr. Matthew Bailey who works for A.D.A.M out of Okemos, Mi who claims they help men through a divorce and they r for the men all the way. Well, unless u have a lot of money in your marriage he won’t fight for u. Instead he will side with your wife’s attorney and not help u like he claims or l...ike a competent attorney would do. In my case, the mediator, the judge, and even my own attorney was against me. After my divorce hearing was granted in my wife’s behalf, the judge and the mediator went to eat at the Griffin Pub in Battle Creek, Michigan and I know this cuz I saw them as I was walking by outside going somewhere else. I swear on my grandma’s grave they were there together. I tried to get Mr. Bailey to subpoena my wife’s bank records to prove she either has money in there or she transferred it to another bank or gave it to someone else and Mr. Bailey refused to after he took her word for it that she didn’t have any money. Also, after a marriage whatever property is accumulated DURING a marriage should be divided equally including vehicles which my wife had among bank accounts and other property, but did Mr. Bailey go after any of that? NO !!!! He claimed his family was affiliated with the mediator which should have been a conflict of interest and Mr. Bailey could have asked for a different mediator cuz of that. Did he ask? NO !!!!! Instead he told me that it can be a good thing to have him like a 50/50 good thing. I don’t recommend him or any attorney from that law firm or any other attorney who advertises on the radio or television. Do your research people before hiring an attorney and believe reviews about them before hiring them. I wish I did.

I don't want to be too specific for fear of retaliation. Who wants to negatively review an attorney? Can you imagine the trouble it will cause. We hired Mr Bailey to handle an important and ongoing issue. That is hired until we had to fire him due to incompetence and lack of preparation. Can you imag...ine an attorney that is more interested in vacations and golf than winning a case? We lost a critical hearing because he went on vacation and returned the day before our hearing and he didn't prepare. He would have easily won because we had the facts and all the judge needed was specific dates but since he didn't bother to ask or prepare the judge was forced to rule against us. I am certain I could have represented myself and won.