Pat Marshall

I hired this lawyer to do my divorce/custody. Worse mistake ever made. When I first met her she seemed very nice and knew what she was doing. It all started to go down hill once I had paid her. She was very rude to me over the phone, she would basically talk down on me. When she found out who my ex h...usbands lawyer was, she started to tell me that she respected that lawyer and was friends with her so right then and there I automatically knew I wasn’t going to get anything I had asked for. It was almost like she was scared to fight for me against the other lawyer. Well that’s when she started to ignore my texts and phone calls. She didn’t speak to me for about a month and a half. That’s when my soon to be ex husband started texting me saying his lawyer couldn’t get ahold of mine either. We all tried and no response. Well we basically did our divorce and custody papers through his lawyer only! He would contact me and let me know what was going on and what his lawyer was going to put in the papers. I had no support what so ever from my lawyer because she still wouldn’t contact me. Well I finally got fed up with it and told her that I paid her to be my lawyer and she needed to contact me!!!!! When she finally contacted me she said “I had a class Monday and I wasn’t able to speak.” Which does not explain where she was the rest of the Month and a half. She called me and I told her what me and my husband had agreed upon and she started gripping at me some more and talking down on me. She then told me a day and time to come into her office to sign my divorce papers. When I showed up at her office she took me to the room to sign the papers. While she was being very unprofessional and telling me that I shouldn’t sign them because I was going against the advice of my lawyer and saying I needed to take it all to court. She was not ever there for me to give me advice or to help me. She wanted to push it as long as she could so we would have to go to court. But I signed my papers and left. I would not recommend this lawyer to anyone! I wasted my money on her. I basically paid her for nothing because she didn’t do anything I asked of her and all she did was bring me to her office and let me sign my divorce papers.

We hired Pat as a divorce and custody lawyer after having wonderful experience with her in my criminal case. She was rude, talked down to us and was not on our side the entire time. She was on the other party's side because she knew their attorney. She ignored us for nearly 3 months, I had to do the ...majority of the investigating, and then let things go.Then gave us bad advice to give my husbands kids up for adoption to people who are alcoholics and child abusers. It was unfair treatment and we let her go as our attorney. We were aware that she had an excuse of family issues at the time our case was in full swing but that does not excuse her behavior. Now we will never know if those kids will survive the holidays.