Mark Mcentire Childress

I had retained Mark quickly on a custody case, immediately laying out the history of what has happened to date and explaining that this case is bound to become a beast of a case. Mark explained that it is a fairly simple custody battle, even though opposing counsel is requesting 100% rights and zero ...mother-visitation. I trusted in him and retained him. Paid the $5000 up front, and acknowledged how i am glad he is taking it up. I had called the court once to ask about a hearing date and they communicated a new date to me. this is the date I gave Mark. a month later, prior to the date we were set on, I receive a court order ordering me to give up my son immediately, and that I have lost all rights to my son and that I am a danger (i am a very safe, caring, and healthy mother. and have nothing against me). I immediately switched lawyers who were able to show me that the reason I lost my son is because MARK CHILDRESS did not write a response to the court until an entire month after it was due. I asked Mark personally about this and he responded that it was my fault for making it sound like I made an appearance and giving him the wrong date. This is nothing but excuses since any good lawyer should be able to do a quick look up on the case and get the correct dates, and he should be fully aware of what has and has not happened. I now have a very caring and very amazing lawyer who is trying to fix the case. unfortunately, for months long I have had to hear the judge destroy me and my rights simply because of Marks neglect to the case. And this is not even mentioning his continuous spelling mistakes, unprofessional emails, unavailability, week-late responses and harsh tone of voice when speaking. No attorney should neglect your case to this extend. Highly dissatisfied!

Worst attorney I've dealt with in my life. Was referred to him by my sister who works with his aunt. I had a fairly simple divorce that I needed assistance with. He's incredibly unresponsive. Takes him days to return an email. Once he called me to yell at me because in an email I wrote to him I told ...him I needed his legal advice quickly. He wanted to lay out the "ground rules" on how I'm allowed to communicate with him. He told me if I wanted him to be more responsive, I could pay him $50,000/month and he'd only focus on me. He drafted the original petition in about 30 minutes by changing the names on an old petition he already had. I had to point out an error that still referred to the other case. I prepared and sent him the inventory and appraisal without any assistance from him. When we finally got to the mediation, he just wanted to get out of the there. Never fought for anything. Just wanted to type up the settlement agreement in real time so he could be done with it. He told me he really hoped it could finish soon so he could get to the golf course. He always gave me the impression that I wasn't worth his time. My little divorce just wasn't that important to him. In my opinion, he added literally zero value to my divorce and caused my settlement to be worse than it would have been had I been represented by competent counsel. My strong advice is to steer clear of this guy.

Hired him for a divorce, me and my spouse decided to work things out a month after I filled. Paid a $5,000 cash retainer that's non refundable that he failed to mention and just has you breeze thru paper work skipping over that part. Told me I could keep case open for a year. However now I owe a bala...nce for this case. Never went to court! There were a few emails back in forth but when I reviewed my invoice I was charged a ridiculous amount of fees of him going back and forth with OC. And to review my case file. When basically there was nothing to review or to go back and forth with OC so much. I can't imagine how much the actual divorce would of cost if I followe thru with divorce.

I am in tears writing about this attorney and never have done a review before but... I just cannot let any other person/family go threw what mine has gone threw. I will first start off with he has stripped us of our life savings, we are a younger couple and are starting out new in life together so le...t's just say $10,000 plus dollars is a lot for us when we could have used this money else where. He has left us financially upside down, without and custody/visitation rights to children, emotionally devastated and frankly scared of attorneys and judges!!! This was supposed to be a pretty common easy case as Mark claimed, he met us on a Saturday and things seemed fine gave him all the money he asked for upfront. Went to the first hearing didn't go as Mark stated then of course he wanted more money to proceed which was paid. Went to a mediation which was awful oh let me add on our day of court he doesn't have you get to his office a little to early to prep and prepare you of what to come no Mark does that when you walk to the court house out of breath and loud passing busses and cars drive by. So back to the mediation nothing is worked out by either side so Mark states ok we are at a zero balance now what we can do is move forward with a trial and I want to get this one particular judge but.... Doing that I need another $5000 so we go home think about it called his office few days later with some questions I will not say names but she states oh I am not sure I will get back with you well she never does so about a week goes by after few calls to his office she finally calls back and first thing she says is by the way Mark says you have an outstanding balance and in order to move forward you need to pay that plus the $5000 so we go back and fourth over payment Mark stated last week I had a zero balance... Well you can never get a straight answer it's always I'll have to get back with you with this one particular woman. Make a long story short here Mark then stated he was dropping me as a client for non payment so not knowing what to do court coming up I need an attorney I paid him biggest mistake ever! He never did what he said he was going to do in court!!! He blames me as to why the court was not favoring him. Well the real facts are he doesn't really care his heart isn't into his career he is all About being and playing the part of a rich pretty boy attorney which he does do that well. His office is a mess they never know what the heck is going on you constantly have to remind them I felt like I was the attorney I gathered information and paperwork at the end I kick myself wondering why I even got an attorney. I am in such a mess and have zero I mean zero Time with my beautiful children which is killing me. I had to hire another attorney and she cannot believe the mess Mark allowed my to be in!!! She also states why didn't we show up to court on such and such date well..... Answer is Mark never did, he said he was billed us for it but never did! Needless to say I am the type of person if I have bad service or bad taste in my mouth I just look away and never go back but with Mark and his office I have to warn others... We are taking about lives and families here. Please please please look elsewhere do your homework I did not and I am severely paying the price and now I can't afford to dig myself out of Marks mess with a real attorney!! Good luck we didn't have any!!