Bruce H. Galloway

We hired Bruce Galloway Law Firm to assist my daughter with modifying a parenting plan and child support. My daughter had an ongoing change in jobs that changed her work schedule from nights to days and decreased her income more than 30%. Her ex-husband had an ongoing change in work schedule from nig...hts to days and an 80% increase in income. Bruce Galloway was unable to successfully demonstrate how the ongoing changes (5 years ongoing) resulted in an unreasonable parenting plan. His strategy was to demonstrate that the original parenting plan was not legal because it conditioned our daughter to establish residency in a specific school district by a specific date. The judge denied our daughter's request to change her daughter's school district and would not modify the child support order either, which was $0/month. The office nearly forgot to submit paperwork requesting a post-trial hearing within the required timeframe. We were told it was because we failed to sign a new contract and pay another retainer. We were unaware of this as the new contract was never sent to us. When the post-trial child support form was completed the plaintiff and defendant incomes were reversed, making it appear as though my daughter has the higher income of the 2 parents and should pay child support. I caught the error before the form was submitted. I'm not sure but I believe we were charged for the review and revision of their own error. We paid over $35,000, including the post-trial hearing, in which the judge stated regardless of the illegal parenting plan, our daughter agreed to it and must adhere to it. She must drive 50 miles round trip to take her daughter to school, 50 miles round trip to pick her up, and receives no financial relief despite an ongoing decrease in income. Our daughter's case was promptly closed by Bruce Galloway Law Firm and we were told the case file was mailed. After 3 weeks of waiting I called the office and learned the file was sent to our daughter's former address. (The office SHOULD have been aware of her change of address as cost of rent and financial security was a determining factor in our decision to proceed with a post-trial hearing in hopes of modifying child support.) It would have been nice to seek advice from another attorney on whether the Circuit Court's decision could be appealed.