Claudia Canales

Fraudulent restraining order filed by grandparents in their deceased daughters name 1 1/2 months after the death of their daughter to gain custody of my 11 year old daughter and 18 year old son when i shared joint custody only with their mother who worked paid rent and lived in home with her parents ...received over 60 thousand dollars in child support and on my health insurance medical dental and vision. my daughter was taken in to my home for 2 1/2 months after the death of their mother the grandparents lawyer waited the week before she turned 12 to interview her in the judges chamber, after being told by the judge she was loyal to me her father and loving both her grandparents and i the judge approved a TRO after stating this child is in no danger and named the grandparents joint managing with primary resident. Mrs. Canales was the amicus that never contacted me never looked at any evidence of mine she only met with the grandparents and only talk to their lawyer, and sent me the bill for everything she has done for grandparents sent me a bill for refusing to reset my de novo hearing and charge me for conflict of date because she was out of the country. there has never been abuse, neglect, or i never relinquish my parental rights away. i work for HFD. 11 years , have no history of any type of violence , have a 5 bed room home where my daughter and son has had their own room over 2 years, and where they spent 1 to 3 nights a week in my home before their mothers death. covered all medical dental, health and vision on all 3 of my children. false history of family violence without any evidence from cps, neighbors, police report nothing at all. the amicus attorney was hand picked to deprive me of due process and work in the best interest of the grandparents.

Claudia was the amicus involved in my grand daughter custody battle. Even when presented the facts (3000 to 4000 Facebook and twitter entries including photos) showing that the mother was "unfit" she still insisted that the child be placed with the mother. She even made several trips to the mothers h...ome which reeks of dog urine and can only be compared to a poorly run dog kennel. Even with the evidence presented she made her choice after a 30 min in office visit with my son. At that point through the advice of our attorney we elected to take this battle to a jury trial. The evidence was presented and the trial was 6 days, they had the stand for 4 1/2 days we had it 1 1/2 days before it went to the jury. 1 hour later the jury had reached a verdict. My son was given custody and geographical rights. My beautiful grand daughter is now living a safe healthy life with us in Pennsylvania. Regardless of the facts, she was more concerned about keeping the child with a druggy mother in Texas than allowing the child to be placed in a safe and healthy environment in Pennsylvania.

Claudia Canales should not be allowed to practice law. She is a heartless person, and could care less about the children's lives she effects everyday. The Father of my child was on drugs and I needed help proving that he was placing my daughter in harms way during the visitations. We hired on ...Claudia as an amicus hoping she would be able to help. I showed her pictures of the things he was involved in. I NEVER HEARD FROM HER AGAIN AFTER SHE TOOK MY FIRST $1000 PAYMENT!!! SHE NEVER RESPONDED TO THE DISTURBING THINGS I SENT HER! NO EMAIL, PHONE CALL, NOTHING!!! That is, until she demanded the rest of her $1500 in court, which was also the first time I met her. Claudia will send load of invoices to you with billable hours, and you'll never hear from her. She is grossly negligent, and needs to be stripped of her rights to practice law. I honestly can't believe that she has the right to have the lives of so many children in her hands. Please beware of this heartless woman. She could have easily ruined my child's life. Thank God we had a judge that saw through her. The BAR is aware of what happened in our case. I hope she is stopped before she ruins a child's life.