Mandy J. McKellar

Please do not waste your money or time on this lady. She will move slowly and not pay attention to your emails, and then come back asking for information you've already provided weeks ago. She will talk to you like you are an idiot. In one of her emails to me she said "Ok, let me break it down t...o you.. read slowly" this is verbatim and "don't for a second treat me like I don't know what the F... I am doing" when I showed frustration and used the "damn" word in my email. Mind you, you are the one who's paying her and she's talking to you like this. She will sign away your money without your consent. She offered the other side a lot money after I explicitly told her not to and then she comes back with "well, it's too late, they've already accepted". Why did I keep her and keep paying her? Because I thought my ex and I reached an agreement but he would then change his mind and ask for more. Which he kept getting. Yes, she will settle your case for you, for sure. Just be prepared to have her give the other side EVERYTHING they ask for and avoid court at every expense. She will tell you over and over, " I just want to get you divorced and save you money", all the while giving away your money like it's water. Do not hire this lady if your case is remotely complicated or you are a high income earner with your own business. And of course if you are looking for someone who remotely respects or listens to you. This to say, that by the time, I brought another lawyer in, it was too late to undo all the damage she had already done and I was out of money to keep paying more and more fees. Wish I had someone different from the beginning. I would possibly still had paid alimony but much less than what was projected by the time another party came into play. The whole justice system is not just people. Be prepared to lose as the lawyers make all the money. Divorce law is antiquated and needs an overhaul.

Hired Mandy sept of 2017. She files a motion which cost me 1500 roughly that was rejected and not even heard. She talked to me like I was a little kid and was disrespectful in our face to face conversations. Emailed her paperwork to file in court and she never filed them. Have her legal paperwork... to review before court she failed to. Had no game play at the hearing I had to schedule an appointment with her day before court just to come up with a game plan. Was an hour late to court because she told me the hearing was at 11 when it was at 10. Made us both late that day and it hurt my case. Judge asked her to file the order and she never filed it. Asked her set up an appoint with other party per the judge order. She charged me for setting up the appointment but never got the sit in. Asked her to erase the extra charges she charged me and she didn’t then she filed a motion to withdraw as counsel and even charged me for the motion to withdraw. Very unorganized counsel. Other attorney looked professional and she was never prepared to counter. She charged me for motions that were never heard failed to communicate file paperwork correctly and was late for court. Very below standard and do not recommend. She doesn’t care about her clients

She is the best family law attorney you can find ! I am from California and had to come to Nevada to visit just born son who is withheld from me for the first three months of his life because of lies his mother told even after it was ordered for me to have visitation every weekend the because of l...ies his mother told even after it was ordered for me to have visitation every weekend his mother still withheld him from me still withheld him Even though his mother was telling terrible lies about me Mandy stood by mestood by me me Mandy stood by me and believed in me and protected my son by the time we got to trial it was nearly a year and a half Mandy fought so hard for my son and I sifting through the lies of his alcoholic mother i received primary custody April 2015 and she still fight to protect my son today . If you are on the side of truth and you want am attorney that will fight for you and your child or children I highly suggest you hire Her as your attorney!

Mandy was my divorce attorney. She gave me false hope on my case. I was a soon to be single mom with 3 kids, 15, 11, and 6. The 15 year old and the 11 year old were not my EX Husbands "legal children" only the 6 year old boy, but at the time he was just turning 5. I wasn't asking for much from my di...vorce, child support, and for the kids to remain together and not be separate. I wasn't asking for the house, cars, furniture.. Etc.. Just for my 3 children to remain together majorly of the time. Mandy thought she could make that happen. 1 weeks before the trial date I had an appointment with Mandy, I walked into her office to discuss my case when it smelled like an ash-tray as I walked in, also she had a smoking pipe just sitting on her desk. As she is hacking up a lung and I am now concerened for my court hearing in a week, Mandy says "The judge shouldn't split up the siblings it all going to be ok, I feel like we have a strong case!" I walked out with doubt, but already paid 3,500 for a retainer that I later fpuns out I owed more! We went to court that next week. My kids were split up and Mandy never brought up my kids in court!! My ex husbands attorney did when he called them "teenage girls!" They're not teenage girls I was thinking, I then nudged Mandy and told her she needs to say something, She only said " the sibling are very close" That was it. My son now is in therapy twice a week due to the trauma of being split up with his siblings and not wanting to go to his dad's every weekend. Mandy knew all this and my concern with my ex and his verbally abusive ways, not only with me but with my kids as well! And she said NOTHING! It was all about the paycheck! There is one thing to love your job and be successfully good at it, but there is another to think your good at your job and only take advantage of the situation and the clients money. After my court case I recieved another bill from Mandy for over 1,500 dollars. I paid it in full. And will make sure I tell everyone my experience I had with this attorney. She was a nightmare and her poor work has only made it more difficult for myself and my children. She also wouldn't speak to me on the phone because I had a balance owed to her. Seriously? She also charged me about her 500.00 dollars to drop me as a client. She went to court and signed off on my legal representation and charged me 500.00 for that. In the mean time my ex and his lawyer showed up as well, I was not longer being represented so I knew nothing about the court date. I was then slapped with another 2,500.00 dollar request from my ex husbands Attorney for taking up his time and for him having to show up in court so Mandy could tell the judge she was no longer representing me. So 3,000 dollars is what I was charged the day Mandy dismissed her self as my council. 2,500 I was summons to pay my ex and 500.00 to Mandy. She was the worst attorney. You get what you pay for obviously.

Had a meeting with Mandy on a complex messy case (due to the laziness of other lawyers). Mandy provided us with clear direction, honesty about what we can to to address the mistakes made by other laywers. She explained why things were done the way they were. If I need a lawyer in the future, I wi...ll go to her.