Crystal Laree Gayden

All 3 of my husbands kids have wanted to live with him, for almost 5 years. We were in court with her 2 years before his daughter was going to turn 12. We had so much evidence on paper about their mother it was ridiculous. The youngest son had over 100 and something tardies to school, somewhere aroun...d 15 or so absences. The oldest daughter was just as bad. His ex was working nights and would leave the kids home alone. They did a home visit, & the lady who evaluated the home misconstrued everything. I wrote down everything that was wrong from the home visit, to our personal interviews, and we had asked Mrs. Gayden to present this in court. She never did. We knew how much value the home visit held. She acted like she spent not even 5 minutes reviewing it. The whole experience was miserable. Every time his ex wanted something she would just say to agree, because they weren’t going to budge. We had asked her to file paperwork on his oldest son that lives with us to get child support for him. She said she was working on it. A few months ago we are back in court & the district clerk said she left it open and never filed the paperwork. Now he is 18, and almost 5 years have passed and we have gotten absolutely no child support at all for him, and can’t because of his age. I would send over papers weeks in advance on so many things, and she would say they never got it. His ex broke her restraining order on multiple occasions. We had mutiple photos and a video, and she never presented them. Postings on social media making up things, and badgering my husband. A police report that lied and said he hit her, and myself and the daughter, were there to tell the cops that she was lying! BUT NONE OF THESE THINGS WERE PRESENTED IN COURT!!! She never even got our meeting place changed and we asked her to do that for 2 years!!!!! She said that the other side wouldn’t budge that we had to agree. She wasted our kids lives, our lives, and our money! She was recommended through a church friend, sadly that is what is so disappointing. If you need a family law attorney DO NOT HIRE HER! She is very in organized, & waits till the last minute on absolutely everything! I worked for a family law attorney for 6 years and couldn’t believe how she maneuvered. I told my husband to fire her repeatedly but he just wouldn’t do it, & ended up not paying her anymore at the end because he finally had it!

I really don't want to go into details but from my experience I would not recommend Crystal Gayden to my worst enemy. She talks a good game but her ending results are horrendous. After 2 years of paying her greatly she managed to connive me into settling at mediation which was not favorable to me. If... I had of known the way her office was I would of represented myself. Criminal law is probably what she needs to focus on because family law is certainly not her specialty. Especially after having her tell me not to worry about the findings in the social study that was performed Crystal Gayden waited until mediation to tell me the social study carried a lot of weight. If she will do this to me trust and believe she will do this to anyone.

Crystal was very attentive to all my needs and wants in my family case. She made sure to answer all my questions, reply to my calls, texts and emails quickly. Her staff was extremely professional and kind. I came to Crystal with a custody matter and she made sure to get what I wanted. I refer her... to all my friends and family.