Kenneth G. Raggio

About five years ago, I filed for divorce from a charming, intelligent, manipulative and emotionally abusive husband. He made it a very long, difficult and adversarial process and refused to cooperate on any level. Since my ex husband and I were both physicians, dividing up the money and property wa...s complicated. Ken Raggio dealt with the financial side of the divorce and with his expertise we were able to get an agreement signed. This allowed Barbara Van Duyne and me to focus on the really important matter, custody of my children. After a two day trial, I was awarded the custody that I had requested. It would not have been possible without Ken's expertise.

My child’s father and I had an amicable divorce a couple years ago. Our possession schedule went okay for a while with little changes here and accommodations there working out. I didn’t even really pay attention to the fact that he wasn’t paying what he agreed he would pay. I even took or picked up o...ur child at the father’s work in another county to help him out. It wasn’t long before my agreements and accommodations to the father led to his bullying of me. This eventually led to me saying we should follow the possession schedule that we had agreed to at the time of divorce. Well, he didn’t like that, and he responded with more bullying, filing a pleading seeking to have temporary custody of our child and filing an untruthful 33 point affidavit. So here I am with a lawsuit. I was referred to Ken Raggio by another lawyer who is also listed as a D Magazine Best Lawyer. He looked over the pleadings and affidavit, and said that this was bogus, but that I still had to defend myself. Well 5 court appearances over five months ( the father appealed the denial of his initial requests by the associate judge to the district judge, and lost again) and a final trial, Ken’s advice was borne out: the father was completely denied all relief he sought, my child support was raised almost a thousand dollars a month, and I was awarded $20,000 in my attorneys fees for the father to pay. And he has to pick up and deliver our child at my house, or to our child’s school, which both are in a different county that the father lives in. I didn’t expect to have to hire Ken this year, but I am glad that I did. Not only did he set the table to deny the father’ relief, but he also got sworn testimony submitted in trial showing that the father had lied in filing his federal tax returns by wrongly saying he had paid for day care and was the primary parent. I think the father now knows that I have a strong attorney just in case he is thinking about starting up his bullying again. I highly recommend Ken and his firm.

“My wife told me she didn’t love me anymore and wanted a divorce. The next thing I knew I was on the wrong side of a protective order and I couldn’t see or talk to my kids. I went to Ken Raggio and I was able to see my kids the very next day after hiring him. When there were more hassles, Ken repr...esented me in a temporary order hearing before the court and got me court-ordered time with my kids, far more than what my wife wanted and without the ridiculous terms she asked for. Ken represented me all the way through the divorce property division, which ended up in an agreement, since I think my wife and her attorney didn’t want to go up against Ken in court again. His work had gotten the bull’s eye on them, and I know he would have represented me well in trial before the Judge. But I got what I wanted without the trial.” “I told Ken many times I was very appreciative of his advice and wisdom to help get me out of the total mess I was in when I first went to him. Ken was expensive, but worth it.”