Ruben Gerardo Flores

Mr. Flores was retained by my ex wife to conduct an “amicable” divorce. I paid him for said services. He did an amazing job of making the proceedings as animosity-laden as he could. Legal malpractice 101 is a very old scam: stall the guy who will be paying child support and/or spousal maintenance by ...enabling the signer to refuse to sign final papers for months at a time. Then hit the guy up for out of pocket cash on the pretense that the state will accept the receipts (they won’t), use shame, guilt, you name it, to secure as much cash as possible, then tell the guy, “sorry” when the state hits him for the full amount plus what he gave through the attorney so his now ex wife can refuse to get a job. Ruben tried this with me, but I saw him coming. I countered with an offer to make said payment on the condition that he swear an affidavit that if the state refused to accept the receipts he would reimburse me the $15,000 he was demanding. The state always refuses to accept receipts from divorce lawyers because they don’t get reimbursed for federal matching funds from receipts; just cash. When he declined, the game became apparent. It’s sleaze 101.