Jessica Casenave Skinner

Do not walk, but RUN. In two years I have never seen my attorney's face, and have only spoken with her a couple of times. Her office has had much turnover in two years and is a trainwreck. You will not get your emails or phonecalls returned and nothing happens unless you physically walk into their of...fice, which still results in no meeting with attorney face to face or your case getting the attention it requires. I contacted a local judge after being exasperated at efforts. His advice was to fire her. That she has a reputation for no face to face and she does not return calls. This all coming from a local judge. I took his advice and did just that. I have no clue that this woman actually exists except her paralegal stating she does. She is a ghost behind closed doors and obviously has a reputation.

I hired Jessica, I was told she was one of the best. I was happy and ready to finley get a good lawer. I gave her 2500 up front. After 3 months of waiting, I get a call back, to my surprise I had got a call from my kids dad the day before. I was asoming Jessica had did her job in they had already ser...ved my kids father, long story short ( her secretary had told my kids dad I was taking him to court) Jessica then said because of her secretary leaking the information, (and knowing my kids dad)-she reimburse my money - very unprofessional of the secretary and very inappropriate to keep her on the team. she should find a new job, if she is gonna let her personal life get in the way of her job life.

If I could offer anyone two words of advice, those two words would be RUN AWAY!! Here are a few of the reasons I give this review: *She gave so little attention to my case that I had to tell her what dates we had court *When she did show up to court she was grossly unprepared and showed up wi...th someone named James’ court file- my name is Brandy and the other party’s name starts with an E. There is no James involved in my case at all. *Her legal assistant is best family friends with the opposing counsel on my case (my ex’s attorney). I brought this to her attention and she failed to remove her from working on my case. My ex kept finding out about every single piece of evidence I submitted to Skinner Law. This assistant even told me we did not have court on a day that we DID. *Jessica did not call a single witness or submit any information that I had provided to prove my case, how could she, she had James’ information at trial :\ *She failed to call for a dismissal when she heard my Ex admit to witness tampering, admitting that he threatened our daughter to change her answers to the judge and amicus attorney while he was on the stand during her questioning. * I told her way ahead of time for our case that I had personal knowledge of the assigned judge being “for sale” as he stated our county didn’t pay enough for him to bring convictions so if someone wanted a favorable outcome they would need to pay up- to which she states she knew the DA was for sale but not the judge. She didn’t bother or ask for another judge. Oh my, I could go on and on and on. She even did work for my nephew and filed OFFICIAL documents with a combination of names from his case and the parties of another case. She will NOT give your case the time or attention it deserves. Trust me, do not hire her- consider yourself warned if you do. ** a little back story on my case: I have had custody of my two kids (teenagers now) since 2007, their dad was only minimally involved, per his choice. He was sued by the state of Texas for back child support of more that $130,000.00 When he got this notice he sued me for custody to offset his balance. The Amicus attorney in this case said it was in the best interest of my children to remain with me. Long story short, between a paid-off judge and lazy attorney (Jessica Skinner) I lost custody and now have to pay child support. I have ZERO criminal history, do not drink or do drugs and my children testified that I am a great and very involved mother. I have absolute documentation and recordings of everything I have written here.

I hired Jessica to assist me with my child support order. My withholding order was based on an amount when I had a different job. After months of working with Jessica she got it lowered only for 2 months, no order was ever filed with district court on her behalf. I have tried to call her office sever...al times and tried to contact her by email only to get NOTHING! All I want is services I paid for. I contacted Texas OAG and nothing was ever notated received by her office.