Alonzo Houff Zahour

More than a 5 Star review. There's nothing like an honest attorney who knows his stuff. Alonzo has helped me with a divorce and most recently, post decree, in which I had to go back to court for college expenses for my child. He really handles himself professionally in court and he'll tell it lik...e it is...I like that! Mr. Zahour also did a bankruptcy for a friend of mine who was really in a pickle. That friend now has a fresh start and is doing well rebuilding her credit. His office staff is helpful and he seems to be a busy guy. Good thing! His rates are pretty good. And my friend almost paid about double elsewhere for a bankruptcy..so call him. You won't be unhappy!

Not only did Mr. Zahour leave me at the courthouse after I took off work with no notice because he had another case, he seemed to let the other lawyer know as well as the other person I was in a case with, but not his own client? He has also called me yelling at me for not submitting paperwork when i...t was his responsibility to gather the documentation. Not only that, I had to call this lawyer about 20 different times complaining about verbal abuse from my ex and the attorney told me to "deal with it", and to not go to the cops - YES. He said avoid the police because a court does not like to see that type of stuff. Then he allowed allowed the father of my child to pay me very little support via PAY PAL for over a year - no justice for health insurance, day care, nothing. He will hurry you off a phone call within 2 minutes and charge you $25. BE CAUTIOUS, this guy manages drug dealers and just about every judge hates him. My 18 month old son is now going to be allowed unsupervised visits with his drug addict father even though both a court appointed mediator/doctor and a home case study worker advised against it all because Alonzo didn't take the time to represent me correctly. And to top it off, this lawyer did not speak up for me ONCE in court yet told me to "speak my mind" saying that the judge didn't like me. No Alonzo, the judge does not like YOU!

I hired Alonzo in July 2013 when my ex left me with our 4 yr old child & did not take any financial responsibility for her. After 9 yrs together, we were never married so it made it more difficult to make him do so. When I first meet Alonzo he was upfront, told me what he would do for me & it would b...e simple. Needless to say, 19 month later, I have received $3000 from my ex towards child support but the real kicker here is that me ex received a large settlement from an injury & Alonzo did nothing as he said he would to secure some funds for my child or for all the back child support, medical, day care expenses. It took him a year to go to court for me, he cancelled 5 scheduled hearings the first year, told him I would report him to ARDC unless he did an emergency hearing of which we went to & without my consent gave my ex's attorney another extension so a year later my child & I was still in the same position we were in before we hired him. Alonzo had told me be lucky I work & I have income coming in cause there are people in worse cases then mine. Yes I work, make a OK living, but it is a parents responsibility to provide & support their child & it was Alonzo responsibility to have the courts make the father do so, Alonzo did nothing to secure funds for my child so she is the one that will scarfice while her daddy is living life off his settlement. Needless to say, he no longer is my attorney, I reported him to ARDC. DO NOT USE THIS ATTORNEY!!!

My ex took my child out of state so I hired Alonzo with helping me have her returned. My ex never showed up to any court date. The matter dragged on for over two years. He never dealt with matters urgently and I would learn about court dates through the courts website. When I would show it would just... get continued. Last court date he got a support order for the amount of 0 dollars. After that, I got a letter from him saying his job was done and good luck in the future. That's nice Alonzo, but what about the custody/visitation order you filed? I would have gladly paid support, I just wanted to see my son (which I still haven't in three years and have resorted in filing motions myself. Funny enough, I got the mother to show by myself and have been present in front of the judge conversing about the case more than I had with him as a lawyer). It honestly seemed like the process dragged on so long that he forgot why I hired him. Side note: one reason why it dragged on longer than it should have was because he couldn't make it at least two times (each continuance causes another month or two delay) and he also had another lawyer show to a few dates. He didn't make me aware of it so while I was waiting for him it was unexpected when she presented herself when my case was called. She however was much nicer. Wish I knew her contact information. I'd recommend her.