Cynthia M. Howlett

!WARNING! DO NOT HIRE THIS WOMAN! Hired Cynthia with a hefty $3500 retainer in July of 2024 for a child custody case. She said all the right things in the beginning to hook me and I fell for it. Our most recent court date was in December of 2024 and prior to that I wasn't able to reach her in any ...form, email, phone, text, I never received a response for a MONTH! My mother tried to call her two weeks ago and she surprisingly answered and to our surprise she was so clearly under the influence of something heavy; she was sluring her words and speaking in very long dragged out words and sentences, if you could even consider them sentences. She didn't know who I was nor the case we had hired her for. A couple days later I stated it wanted a refund due to the unacceptable behavior from her. She complied, sent a check, and now the issuing bank is saying they can't verify it. So now she is committing fraud and I'm still out my $3500. Upon further research I learned she was disbarred in the state of California, which is most likely the cause for relocation to Missouri. I will be reporting her to my Judge and the Missouri Bar Association as well.

If you hire this attorney, you will regret it potentially for the rest of your life. In my opinion she lacks fundamental legal skills, including research. Hiring her may have ruined my children’s future. Or, try to complain and she how she ruins your case. To many other good lawyers out th...ere to take a risk hiring this one.