Kimberly Ann Staley

I paid $18,000+ for Kimberly Staley services as a family attorney and everything I wanted to improve is now worse after employing Kimberly Staley. My child support increased by 40% when I had one child who was emancipated over a year ago. I am now responsible for paying the attorney’s fees of the opp...osing party in the amount of $12,000. I was found fit as a parent, but I was not granted 50/50 custody of children above the age of 14 and want to be with me. While in court she was unable to function in the capacity of representing me effectively. A large amount of evidence was submitted from the opposing party, and this seems to overwhelm the capabilities of Kimberly Staley. I asked her about appealing this obvious one-sided, bias decision, “I would not do that, it would not work with this judge’s decision.” I asked again a couple of days later then Kim Staley’s response changed to $10,000…….. to appeal what she failed at after I paid her $18,000. Hire Kimberly Staley and you will lose money, and everything will be worse, please do not employ her legal services. Go to the website for Kimberly Staley and there it states Kimberly Staley as a “Lead Counsel Verified”, interesting. I can prove all my statements in this review. I served this country honorably for 24 years in 2 different wars after being paralyzed twice. I typically do not discuss my background. I need to because I have paid for all services on time, and I received a below standard product. In the court order, I am NOT found unfit as a parent. The court also stated, “The parties struggle in communication, and their parenting plan is vaguely written such that there are issues with the parties understanding of what the parenting plan requires.”………a parenting plan that was vaguely written and how am I punished for that?

Kim represented me in my divorce. Early on it was quite clear the case could only be settled by going to trial due to my very unethical and uncompromising (now) ex-wife who was represented by an equally aggressive counsel. Although Kim claims we "won" at trail, I was disappointed in her performance t...hroughout the entire process. Despite my multiple requests for legal counsel, it was mostly non-existent to the point she let me do things that were not to my advantage (such as declare an investment account community property). She told me she would not release any documents until after my review; yet released an investment account history to meet a deadline she had overlooked, again causing me financial loss in the settlement. Her near constant advice to settle the case in my wife's best interests (not mine) before going to trial made me feel as though I had an additional adversary, and my perception was that she was intimated by opposing counsel. I felt we were totally unprepared for trial as she didn't even have the exhibit numbers right, let alone having a prepared strategy to present my case. Conversely, opposing counsel’s arguments during trial were well-choreographed and hard hitting. In her defense, Kim had an overwhelming workload assigned to her by her law firm, but that is no excuse for me to be under- and poorly represented during the entire process and especially at trail. She has now been assigned a paralegal to work with her.