M Marie Walker

I cantacted and hired Marie walker in may of 2017 looking for legal advice to deal with my ex and her taking it upon herself to decide parenting time with out talking to me. Marie suggested mediation, and accompanied me there, and I walked out of mediation with less time with my son. My ex was show...ing my son legal documents from Marie and the courts, and basically turning my son against after mediation. Marie’s advice was to try to co parent with my ex... this advice was given after I had explained to Marie multiple times that coparenting with my ex wasn’t working. My son became so angry that he destroyed my TV and keys my wife’s car as he was walking out of my house to return to his moms for 2 weeks. Marie’s advice was to press charges against my son for destruction of property, to create a record of his behavior, and to show him consequences for his actions. This was a mistake. When attending his juvenile hearing Marie then pulled me and my wife aside and told me she would never have pressed charges, and that an 11 year old boy should have 1 minute time out for every year he is old. She then told me that if I didn’t like her legal advice that I should find a new lawyer. By this time I was 3k in debt to her. My ex filed a motion for an emergency hear to remove my parenting time, as result of me pressing charges. When at court Marie wouldn’t even let me enter the court room, and bullied me into taking the opposing council’s parenting deal. I brought character witnesses and multiple documents to the hearing in my defense as good parent, and Marie wouldn’t let me submit them to the magistrate. When I did agreed with Marie she then said again “if you don’t like my legal advice, you can fire me and pay me in full” by this point I’m over 5k$ in debt to Marie walker. She calls me by the wrong name on court document, in corisponding emails, and legal documents to my ex’s lawyer after be corrected multiple times. She has given legal advice multiple times and then taken back what she has said. My son is troubled and I’m just looking for help to get some more time with him; but when I explain this to Marie, she says “you need to treat your son like a drunk on the floor and walk over him”. I can’t explain to how much of a mistake it was to hire Marie. She has brought nothing but pain, confusion, and financial heart ache to my family. After the last court hearing, I lost all of my physical custody of my son, and am now paying over 700$ a month in child support. I used to have my son every other weekend from Friday to Monday, and exra weekdays in the summer. That is all gone now, thanks to the poor legal advice of Marie walker