Tina Maree Longnecker

Did an adoption many moons ago but failed to ask for a name change following adoption. After dealing with the social security office (during Covid which took months) only to be told we need a court document requesting name change. I called her office, her manager refused to help unless I paid more mo...ney.. MANY THOUSANDS of dollars didn’t cover that?? I absolutely do not recommend.

Distracted and careless, there were repeated embarrassing errors in documents that the opposing side got to see. Despite efforts to have them corrected. The content and dialogue of our meetings with my attorney were relayed to her assistant/paralegal(s) completely wrong. My case was handled so drawn... out and sloppy that me and the other party dropped our attorney’s and sat down to dinner and hammered out all issues. What a waste of time and money.

This women is amazing!! Her office is the best!! They have helped us throughout the last 6years. She is a busy lady but when it's her turn to sit in front of you she's all about you!! We just recently went to court and got EVERYTHING we needed and wanted for our two children. We owe this lady and her... amazing staff everything!! Will continue using her for the rest of our lives ;)

This attorney has been reported to the Missouri Bar fee dispute committee due to several factors. I was never given an accounting of my retainer fee of $1500; I was never told there would be additional fees; I did nearly all the discovery for court; she was less than stellar in the courtroom and let ...the other parties get away with much too much. Her first billing post court (Sept. 2011) was Nov. 2011, dropping the bomb that she expected an additional $1300. In Dec. 2011 she let me know on the invoice that my account was being turned over to collections. This was a HUGE issue for me because she was told at the initial meeting that I gave her all the money I had and was working FOUR jobs to try to make my ends meet. I had to go get the subpoena that was to be delivered to my ex's live-in girlfriend (living in our house) and then deliver it to a town 40 minutes away so it would get served in time since she waited till the last minute. Her answers to my questions were rarely straightforward, always using legal mumbo jumbo. She missed asking some VERY key questions in court that could have made all the difference in the outcome. I filed for divorce on Nov. 30, 2010. The court date was put all the way out to August 24, 2011 . . . . . HUGE deal when you realize I should've realistically been divorced by February 2011. It made an incredible difference in how things turned out because my ex did NOT know in February or even soon after that his employer would be closing their doors in Sept. 2011. To top it all off, this attorney had the court release her from the case BEFORE all the property, money, etc. had changed hands. Now, I'm in a stinking situation because he was supposed to have me paid off no later than Jan. 2012 . . . . . he STILL hasn't paid me. And now, I need another attorney. The frustration this attorney and her staff caused me is beyond description.The final straw for me was finding out in my signed divorce paperwork that while I was going crazy waiting for this divorce to be done, Longnecker was moving out into a practice of her own. One can only assume that she was moving rather than tending to my divorce. A friend of mine who filed in Feb. 2011 was divorced in April 2011, using the same attorney and having much more that needed to be dealt with than me. NO, I will NEVER recommend her to ANYONE!!!!!!!