Matthew John King

Hired Mr. King to handle my divorce and found him to be unorganized and unprofessional. He would always make remarks about being forgetful and grateful to his part time legal assistant for keeping him somewhat organized. It wasn’t till my case really started going through the courts I noticed his lac...kadaisical handling of it. He made poor decisions on my behalf before the judge without even consulting me prior and the final straw was his careless neglect of notifying me of an important meeting between the GAL and former spouse to discuss custody. I’m still seething that he did not tell me of this prearranged meeting that I missed because of him. The best thing I did was remove Mr. King from my case. It was under my new lawyer that I discovered just how careless his work was. To this day I don’t know who he was working for because it wasn’t me. Please think twice before hiring Mr. King, he presents himself as some who doesn’t really know what he’s doing.

I wouldn't recommend Mr. King to anyone. He never met with me in person but only talked to me on the phone which is weird. He filed my case in the wrong court and once sent me a wrong document to sign because as he said it many times "would lose his head had it not been attached." My case was pretty ...amicable from the start, and we could have settled in a reasonable time, but I have a feeling Mr. King was stringing me along to get more money out of me. He went to court multiple times and never called me to update me on what was going on. It seems like he never did anything to be proactive until I picked up the phone and talked to him. Then you would get charged for the phone call as well for reminding him to do something that he should have known he had to do.

Hiring Mr. King for my divorce was a very costly mistake. He was not up on current laws on maintenance that came into effect on Jan.1, 2015 and his advice led to costing me greatly instead of pushing to have this case settled prior to this date. Also, he was very unprepared at pre-trial and needed to... verify facts that were previously sent to him. I would strongly urge anyone to reconsider hiring this lawyer.