Georgia A Wilder

How do we go about reporting her to the bar ? Wishing we could give her zero stars -Everything everyone else has written before us , she’s an incompetent thief. Took the money years ago , refuses to make requested changes to verbiage, rude ,and never responds to emails or calls . This must stop befor...e others have to suffer through this .

Ms. Wilder was engaged on my behalf by my Divorce Attorneys, a large Phx Firm, the beginning of April, 2021. Mine is a relatively small Pension Plan and we agreed to split it 50:50. Neither my Attorneys or I could seem to make "contact" with Ms. Wilder, but all the Documents were sent to her... office. Finally in November, apparently one of my attorneys did make contact, telling Ms. Wilder we would likely reach a settlement in December, 2021. I finally spoke with Ms. Wilder on December 2, 2021. I offered to answer any questions she might have, and told her I would gladly participate in this resolution of a 50:50 "SPLIT." I impressed on Ms. Wilder I needed the "split" amount for the Pension Administrator before December, 30, 2019 or, "I was obligated to take a Required Minimum Distribution ("RMD") on the entire amount and PAY TAXES ON THAT AMOUNT." Ms. Wilder stated, "that is between you and your Plan Administrator", but I'll get to work on this. I spoke again with Ms. Wilder on December 6, 2019 expressing my concerns and my willingness to assist her with any questions or concerns she might have. I tried to contact her throughout the remainder of December, but she did not respond. She also did not respond to my Attorney's queries. December 30 passed with no communication from Ms. Wilder, and, yes, I was forced to take the full RMD and I am responsible for considerable tax obligations that should have been avoided. The Divorce Agreement was signed by the Judge in mid-December, 2021. As of mid-February we had no definite communications from Ms. Wilder. When I complained of this to my Attorneys, I was told "perhaps you should handle this yourself" (Strange, but true). Then "suddenly", Ms. Wilder requested all the documentations we had already supplied. We supplied them again. We were rewarded with no additional communications from Ms. Wilder. In mid-March we learned Ms. Wilder had consulted the opposition's Forensic Accountant for reasons unknown. This accountant had been excluded from the Court Proceedings by the Trial Judge. Ms. Wilder did NOT inform my attorneys of these inquiries as is customary in these issues...everything is suppose to be done OPENLY. This smacked of obvious apparent partisan actions on Ms. Wilder's part I then wrote an Email to Ms. Wilder detailing her seemingly non-standard behavior and asking her to complete the task for which she had been contracted and PAID IN ADVANCE. Ms. Wilder attacked me claiming my "tone was condescending, and she did not wish to defend herself". She could not, however, refute anything I said concerning her behavior. She unilateral "withdrew". We must now incur more expense re-educating a new QDRO person. We have "lost" months in this process. Forewarned is Forearmed!

Georgia was hired to prepare a very straight forward and simple QDRO. Just as others have mentioned here, it took Georgia months to get the document done and I finally had to start checking in every week or two (probably still would not be done if I had not inquired regularily). After reviewing the... document, I found it had errors in it. So add another month to the process as the corrections were ignored for weeks. Georgia's attitude became hostile once I began to do regular follow-ups and once I pointed out the mistakes. Geez Georgia...did you just expect me to wait forever?

If there was an option for completely incompetent, thieving, and scumbag, I would have opted for that. After paying this law firm $2,400.00 to prepare two QDROs back in November of 2015, I have yet to receive both of them. The one QDRO Georgia did in fact produce, she could not and completely ref...used to verify or validate her figures. After numerous requests for the documentation supporting her figures, I received a copy of some chicken scratch on a piece of yellow pad paper claiming those were the figures. When I compared her figures against the documents provided in the divorce papers, it was clear that she had calculated certain earning quarters multiple times and omitted others. When I confronted Georgia about this, her attitude became more than abrasive and stated she did not do anything incorrectly. As far as the second QDRO, after 15 months it has still not been completed. I am writing this review on the eve that I finally found out why. Not only does this law firm not care to address incorrect calculations but they are so incompetent, or vindictive, that they have been sending my mail to the wrong address. Not because I moved or provided them with the wrong address, because I had received mail from them prior to me confronting them , but I believe it is out of sheer nastiness. The post office managed to reroute a letter to me with the wrong address clearly printed on the front. Conveniently, Georgia had decided to close my file without ever completing the QDRO she was hired to produce and keep the money paid to her. She used the excuse that I refused to respond to her previous notifications, however none were ever received. Georgia has my personal phone number, my work phone number, and my email address yet there were absolutely zero attempts to contact me about this supposed completed document. Do yourself a favor, do not hire this law firm for any reason what so ever!

I am so surprised by the other two reviews that I can only conclude that it is somewhat a matter of people who didn’t get what they wanted, a frequent occurrence in divorce cases, brought about by ignorance of what the law actually is (listening to friends instead?) and unrealistic expectations. ...Georgia Wilder represented me in my divorce proceedings and in the QDRO preparations, and I think she did an outstanding job. There were four QDROs and she handled each one professionally and as expeditiously as possible. She is very knowledgeable and experienced in this very complex area of the law. It can be extremely time-consuming and costly, and, if the plans are government plans as mine were, frustrating and stressful. But divorce can be all of those things, and that’s even if the result is favorable. I have known Ms. Wilder for approximately 40 years and she is one of the most ethical, trustworthy, and conscientious people I know. I have no hesitation at all in recommending her.