Douglas Charles Scovil

Unfortunately I used Doug Scovil as my divorce attorney. The divorce took 3 year to finish, what with all the things other dissatisfied clients identified. After almost 30 years of marriage and four children ( he is an executive), my settlement was my car, <$80k and a QDRO. The QDRO took 4 addit...ional years to complete. What I WAS NOT told is that I can't collect any of the QDRO until he retires, which he will never do. Upon his death, it will be reduced to a very very small %. I should be retired now but I have to work two jobs. It was a very stressful time; Doug did NOT look out for my best interest and should never have let me agree to that settlement.

I had a divorce with a business involved and he did not execute due diligence to reasonably appraise the businesses and the properties. He lacked competence. During meetings, I asked questions but he did not do anything, like request interrogatories to the other side. When I requested a meeting to... prepare for the trial, his office denied the request, but when a Caucasian friend called and asked for a meeting, she got a meeting right away. He did not explain that the petition filing had a statute of limitation and therefore the trial could not be continued, just that it could not be continued. My former husband told me that he paid-off Scovil, while I was also still paying bills from Scovil. Scovil held up (sat on) my alimony payments my former husband had made until just before the statute of limitations expired. Finally, I did all the preparation work and they did not do any. After I fired Scovil he refused to return my documents to me so that I could prepare for trial.

He takes your money, and provides little communication. He'll charge you outrageous rates just for you to make a phone call and ask a simple quesiton. He has you reluctant to even call him for fear of burning up your retainer. Use him if you want to spend a lot of money with little results. The ...receptionists are rude, and the attorneys are never available at the time that you are scheduled to meet with them. I have waited in their waiting area for over 45mins for an appointment that was scheduled. There are so many better attorneys to use than him. He's not very friendly, which is fine, if he's effective; but he's neither of them. I would HIGHLY reccomend not using him for your divorce proceedings, unless you want your soon to be ex-spuse getting everything.