G. David Heiman

My husband and I are so happy with our experience with David Heiman and his office staff. I needed to have my daughter's bio father terminate his rights in order for my husband to legally adopt her, and I was terrified. David made the process so easy, and was so sensitive to the delicacy of the pr...ocess. His secretary did all the "dirty" work for me with talking to her bio father, and went out of her way to facilitate all my concerns (I.E. adding the ability to track all the mail we sent to him, signature upon delivery, etc). We started at the end of the summer, and David said he really wanted to try to have the process done by Christmas, so we could have the burden lifted and spend our first Christmas together as a "legal family". Everything went quickly, and sure enough, the adoption was finalized about a week before Christmas. I was shocked with how NOT stressful the process was. It was seamless. David even dined with our whole family to discuss things we had questions about. Lawyers who are so considerate of a family in a sensitive time are, in my experience, unheard of. I really lucked out stumbling upon his practice by googling lawyers in my area. Thank you so much, David!

David is an outstanding attorney. He was aggressive when he needed to be, supportive in my decision making process, realistic with my options and kept me grounded throughout the modification. He never just told me what he thought I wanted to hear, but shot me straight and outlined every potential pos...sibility in terms that I understood. I am very satisfied with the outcome of my divorce and David fought to get me everything that i requested, which is almost unheard of for the men in Texas. Thank you so much! I will highly recommend him whenever the opportunities arise.

I hired David Heiman for my divorce simply because his rates are fairly inexpensive, but I got what I paid for. A simple, agreed divorce with no kids, no property, and no debt turned into four months of just trying to get this guy to file the one simple petition in my case to handle everything. It to...ok my now ex-wife finally calling him to give him a piece of her mind about his work ethic to light a fire under him. A word of advise, do not hire this guy. He was very rude to me throughout the entire (drawn out on his end) process, and acted as though he was better than me. Also, I did some research on him after the fact, and he has been diciplined several times by the State of Texas for his professional actions.

I heard about collaborative law and did some research and found David Heiman. I read about him and the collaboration process and he sounded great. I had an initial consultation and everything went fine. I discussed mediation because that is what I wanted -- no court trial! Well, a couple of days lat...er, I received a call from his paralegal who said she would be handling everything for me. I assumed she knew what she was doing -- WRONG! I met with her and we went over the mediation process, got all the paperwork in order and she said she would call when she had a date set for mediation. Well, we finally got a date and the night before we were to be at the courthouse, she called me and said "it's been cancelled". I said "what do you mean, it's been cancelled?" She said well we haven't heard from the other side and they're not answering my calls or emails and there is still paperwork I am waiting on from them". I had scheduled my work hours to have that day off so I went on into work. My ex calls me and says "where are you"? We're here at the courthouse waiting for you!" He was very upset and accused me of thumbing my nose at the mediator and the courts! I told him I was informed by the paralegal that the mediation had been cancelled. I cannot write here the expletives he used to me about my lawyer, but it was BAD. I called the paralegal and she acted so nonchalant as if it was no big deal! OMG, I couldn't believe it (by the way, that paralegal was fired and is no longer with him). I tried to communicate with Mr. Heiman but he would not answer my phone calls or emails. The next thing I know, I'm getting served with a "contempt of court" citation along with Mr. Heiman. Long story short, I could not afford another attorney so I tried to muddle along by myself. End result, my ex and his lawyer wrote up the divorce decree and because my ex had kept my children from me for so long (even moving them out of town), on a visit to see my daughter's kindergarten graduation,I saw my 8 year old son and he came and jumped in my arms and he was crying so hard and saying how much he missed me and I knew I had to sign the papers so I could see them! (I know, BIGGEST MISTAKE OF MY LIFE!) Oh how I wish I had a caring lawyer with some integrity who would have explained this decree to me, but, I did not and I am now suffering because of Mr. HEIMAN. I lost my children and I have to pay child support and oh yeah, just discovered there is no standard visitation in my decree! My ex was going to give me 9 extra days this summer but he started arguing with me via text messages and didn't like something I said, so he said "forget it, you don't get any summer visitation"! I am at his mercy and every day of my life has been a living hell. I WANT TO SEE MY CHILDREN! So far, I got to see them 2 days in June and I get 4 days in July and 4 days in August and that's it! I am just trying to figure out what I can do about this because THIS NEVER SHOULD HAVE HAPPENED THIS WAY! I'm determined to fight this and I'm not giving up! I know there is a lawyer out there somewhere who can help me -- I just have to find them! My advice to anyone thinking of hiring David Heiman --- PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE, DON'T DO IT!