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Posted by Kayode | January 26, 2017 | Hired Attorney | Family

Recent family Law case

Recent Family Law case. Mr Busby was helpful in seeing my case to its conclusion. And also helped me with a discount with my legal fees will recommend busby and associates.

Posted by anonymous | January 22, 2025 | Hired Attorney | Child Custody

Horrible Experience

I’m sharing this review to not only highlight the disastrous experience I had with Busby & Associates—particularly with attorney Andrew Iwata and Michael Busby—but also to caution others who may be seeking legal counsel. My custody modification case was handled in such a negligent and unprofessional ...manner that I am still considering filing a formal complaint with the Texas Bar Association. Mr. Iwata made a critical error by drafting a court order that did not match the judge’s ruling. When opposing counsel identified this mistake, rather than taking responsibility and correcting the problem he created, he withdrew from my case, leaving me in a far worse position. This abrupt abandonment forced me to scramble for new representation, adding both emotional and financial strain. I had already poured thousands of dollars into Busby & Associates, only to be left without any positive outcomes. The damage done by Mr. Iwata and the firm was so severe that I’m now in the process of recovering from their mistakes before I proceed with a formal complaint against them. Mr. Busby only made matters worse by threatening me if I filed a complaint against them. It’s taken a significant toll on my well-being, but I feel it’s my responsibility to warn others. If you are considering Busby & Associates, please think twice. In my view, you risk facing the same lack of professionalism, accountability, and basic diligence that I experienced. This is my personal experience and honest opinion. I hope it serves as a warning to anyone looking for legal representation to do their due diligence and seek out attorneys who will not leave you bearing the consequences of their own errors.

Michael Busby

Replied last December 18, 2025

The facts as alleged are not true. This person ran out of gas on the one visitation I secured that person with their children. I can only do so much. I withdrew because this person is not a self starter and does nothing to self improve. Lawyers do not gas up cars for clients to see their children.....

Posted by Jose | January 13, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Child Support

Lack of attention to detail

I hired Busby in March of 2016 for a modification of child support. He screwed up my case. He had an associate attorney appear on my behalf when he said he would go and he never apologized when I brought it to his attention. He was disorganized and called me last minute (night before court) to get mo...re documents. Very unprofessional. I would not recommend using him if you need peace of mind.

Michael Busby

Replied last January 13, 2018

Child support is easy enough to calculate. Visitation calendar and child support calculations can all be found here (https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/cs/welcome-to-the-child-support-division). Now, I tell everyone to go first to the Attorney General of Texas, because it is free, if your only issue is child support. The State of Texas provides as a service to the taxpayer, free services to adjust child support up or down, or to establish child support. The Texas attorney general has access to Texas workforce commission wages, (unemployment insurance) to verify wages, I do not. So, for about 75% of the public and those of you reading this post, you would never want to pay a lawyer for child support services, when you can get a better service from the Attorney General for no cost. For the 25% of people for whom are self employed, want to pay or receive child support that is above or below the guidelines, or have other child custody issues not part of the services that could be provided by the attorney general, you need to lawyer up. Thus, in the case at hand, to say I am not efficient, and I called someone the day before court, and that was it, well of course I am so sorry to let you down, but I ask, Was it more than child support? Perhaps you were a non-resident of Texas? But the child resided here? Perhaps you were a candidate for maximum child support? And the mother wanted above guidelines? Perhaps there were other child custody issues in addition to child support? Perhaps there was an issue for credit for possession? Perhaps you never hired me at all, but I had you held in contempt for failure to pay child support and you are posting a false review? As a businessman and a consumer, before I post something about a service for which I would and expect more, I always call the owner or a manager to address my concern and then decide if the explanation was satisfactory. As I was given no chance to troubleshoot with Jose his complaints, I can only wish him well and a Happy New Year.

Posted by anonymous | September 22, 2017 | Hired Attorney | Divorce & Separation

Worst Lawyer please stay away

I initially spoke with Mr.Busby assuming he would be handling my case. My case was sent to one of his associates. I gave them over $2000.00 for my divorce case. I had two appointments for court which they never showed up to court, therefore my case had to be reset twice. Several times I tried to rea...ch his office and no one ever returned my call. After over a year on the case I tried to get some of my money back but I was just ignored and never received a phone call back or money. Please stay away from the scam artist

Michael Busby

Replied last September 22, 2017

My cell number is 281 704 0723. My email is mbusby@busby-lee.com. Everyone is given my contact information. Seems like you reviewed me twice. Sorry to let you down. I hope your current lawyer does better than I.

Posted by anonymous | September 22, 2017 | Hired Attorney

Took my money and did nothing for my case

Stay far away from this lawyer took two thousand dollars from me and did nothing. Also never returned any of my phone calls.

Michael Busby

Replied last September 22, 2017

Phone calls are returned within one business day. If they are not, it means I need to fire somebody. Two thousand dollars is a lot of money to take from someone and do nothing. Any lawyer who does something like that, should be investigated by the bar. At the time of writing this response, there is no pending investigation against me. Thus, I can only speculate that I could not get you what you wanted, but worked on your case, and you were frustrated with the result. Seems like you got me pretty good with a double review? Sorry to let you down.

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