You could make a movie out of the adventure and heartache Mark and I went through! The best thing about Mark is that he tells you the ugly 'truth' even if it scares some of the weaker folk off. After talking with many attorneys for my child custody case, he was the one that stuck out for me because... he was telling me the truth I didn't like, but needed to hear.
And Mark was up front with me how my case was sitting when I first hired him. I thought it was good, but in reality it wasn't really all that good, and he said the way I was handling it was making it worse. So with some deep introspection of myself, I heeded Mark's advice, upped my game as a parent, and my attitude with the law.
This really paid off when my son's mother took her insanity to the next level. I'm not going to go into great detail, but the mother was a pathological liar trying to spread the most horrible lies as a plot to alienate my son against me (feel free to use your imagination...it was the worst). This was through endless threatening motions, false police reports, conning other men to replace me as the father, daycares, fake CPS reports, etc., etc. She said the sickest stuff that came to her psycho brain about me without any filter or consideration. A true psychopath we were up against.
However, Mark won EVERY court battle against her. She even went through 5+ attorneys in order to sell her lies and Mark whipped them all and exposed her bull#$% for what it really was.
And when the mom realized she was losing her custody with her antics (she went from full custody, to joint custody, to NO custody), as a desperate finale move; she abducted my boy internationally across the world coercing me into giving up my parental rights! Otherwise, she wouldn't return him!
With some tactful 'negotiating' with attorneys, the courthouse, and even the DA (unheard of for a civil attorney!!!) Mark was able to play 'let's make a deal' with the mom to convince her and drop certain things to convince her in bringing my son back (the country she took him to wasn't even under the Hague convention!). Mark was able to deal with the mom in subtle legal ways only HE knew about where he was then able to restore all my parental rights she coerced me out of right after she returned him!!! For all intensive purposes, that abusive psychopath of a pitiful excuse of a mother is out of our lives finally and will go to jail!
In my final statements, Mark is not after your pocketbook, he is not there to sell you false hope (or false pessimism either), and most importantly, Mark is a wicked attorney who is also a MORAL human being. I am a poor SOB, and Mark did a lot of work for free (he only does this for me btw ;P ) because it was the RIGHT THING. Mark knows how to expose the morality out of the law and gives our legal system honor. That's what the law is about. The law is not about playing games, but to deliver ethics. Mark is the best legal representation money can buy.
Thank you very much Mark,
- From One Loving Father to Another