Jeff Heintschel is nor an advocate for his clients, but rather his own pocketbook.
I was referred to him by another family lawyer too busy to handle my divorce case with a wealthy, abusive and controlling husband who cut me off all his income while I’m only on disability, which I was on prior to our marriage. I had bank records and other evidence of my husband’s financial income, ...which he refused to pursue quickly and gave my husband time to hide hundred of thousands of dollars and open secret bank accounts. My husband has used every dirty, narcissistic lawfare tactic available to refuse to provide Discovery to this very date, bombard me with mountainous paperwork and objections. Jeff Heintschel was my second attorney in my divorce, for 2-1/2 years and after an initial 15,000 fee. He didn’t get my court-ordered mediation until 7 months after I hired him, though the judge ordered it within one week. He didn’t have me go over the large amount of missing Discovery by my husband until a year after I hired him. My first attorney had filed a Motion to Compel Discovery and Sanctions before I fired him, and I’ve still never had a hearing for that in the 2-1/2 years I’d been with Jeff Heintschel. My husband had claimed, all of a sudden after operating two businesses and over 2 million gross income, to be retired since August 2022, four months after I’d had to hire an attorney and have him served. Not uncommon tactics for men like him. Jeff Heintschel not only NEVER got me a hearing before the judge to produce the evidence only I, myself found, he never pursued getting any evidence of my husband’s finances and assets until I threatened to file a complaint with the State Bar after 19 months of 3 cancelled hearings in the Compel Discovery Motion and my getting deeper and deeper into debt and going on the Ticket To Work program and being hired, after 12 years and former work as an LVN, to be a kennel tech at a doggie boarding and daycare. Jeff Heintschel’s cared zero about what I was going through. After my threat to file a complaint, he suddenly had his assistant call me to review an official drat of a court subpoena to Wells Fargo to obtain all my husbands bank records; however, after that; he suddenly changed the format to a simple Records Request, without my knowledge and not requiring being filed with the court. When I was finally given the bank records, they were out of date order, missing checks, and I found evidence of several missing accounts associated with my husband. I called the preparer with Wells Fargo, and she told me her copy stayed to only give the records for the one numbered account we already knew about. At that point, I knew without a doubt Jeff Heintschel was in collusion with my husband, certainly for bribe money, and from there on us even more evidence of his perfidy and attemp to now not only collude with my husband, but cover up his own crimes of collusion. I have more evidence to share, but this is too long already, and I would urge anyone to never, ever hire Jeff Heintschel. He is as crooked as they come.