Dorothy Louise Carfrae

Don't trust this lawyer "Minor's Counsel" This lady is a turncoat in our Family court system. I personally witnessed this lawyer completely lie to the Judge on three occasions now. Once I had to subpoena her documents to get my point across. If thats what it takes, I recommend doing it. First, she be...lieves she can interview a child in 15-20 minutes whom she had no prior contact with for more than a year and testify and recommend on that child's best interest in regards to Education, Health, and Welfare. WOW! Only 15-20 mins. WOW! In addition BEWARE she will only interview one parent and give that one parents allegations to the court without interviewing the other parent. Therefore I suggest, be ready to object in court on gender bias and state the exact code. Look it up. Ask the court to strike her statements and/or relieve her. This goes for both mother/and fathers. Remember she is a turncoat. Second, This lady Ms Carfrae, will only do what's best for herself in the eyes of the court. Meaning, no matter what, she will side with the Judge even knowing that his decision is wrong. Third, she believes the rules of court do not apply to her. Hence Rules of Evidence. Do not allow her to present testimony that came from anyone other than herself. Hearsay. Be ready to Object and Object often. BEWARE!!! She does not file any reports when the court so orders her to do so. DEMAND her to file a report and do not allow her to give any testimony until she does file the report. Rules are rules so do not allow her to break them because once she does she will continue to take advantage of her attorney title. STOP HER IMMEDIATELY!! Fourth, She will blame the party for not calling, emailing, or writing to set up an appointment. If your paying her, via monthly payments, contract, and/or PACT where does it say that the client needs to call to make an appointment. Although when you do call, write, and email Ms. Carfrae will say you did not try to contact her. BEWARE!!! This review is for the reader's whom are considering Ms Carfrae for counsel. Just remember one thing. BEWARE!!!

Dorothy has handled two cases of mine in which custody and visitation were the battle as said before in some reviews she's worth every single penny I highly recommend her to anyone she is very knowledgeable unprofessional. Her staff were great to work with. Being a single mom she allowed me to make m...onthly payments which made her great service is Affordable for me. I am forever grateful to Dorothy my children are grown adults with their own children now and I was able to share memories and know that they were safe with me all those years

Yes, I would recommend Dorothy Carfrae to my best friend and my relatives, if they ever need a family law attorney. I was referred to Dorothy by a person who lost his family law case because he was represented by an attorney who does not specialize in Family Law. Dorothy specializes in Family Law a...nd has practiced for 30 years. It says a lot when you watch her in court, when she is treated with respect by the judges, other court staff, and other attorneys. Do your homework, go to court, watch her and then decide. She won me custody of my children. And I am forever grateful.

Most of these negative reviews left out the MOST IMPORTANT FACTOR: the person's RESPONSIBILITY FOR THEIR OWN ACTIONS. An attorney is not a miracle worker, they can only work with the facts of your case. And sometimes the client must take responsibility for what they have done. Just as the best a...ttorney cannot get a murderer get away, a family law attorney cannot get a client full custody, restraining orders, max support/alimony, etc... if you are a violent person. a drunk, a drug user, etc.. I am a LESS THAN PERFECT CLIENT, but I got reasonable and fair results thanks to Dorothy Carfrae. Without going into details, I will just say that I had the typical life of an irresponsible man who had a child too early in my life. I was a child myself. I had a couple of DUIs, and been arrested for DV at the report of the mother of my child. Dorothy helped me, through sheer hard work, get some time with my young son. I am thankful for that. Dorothy gave me the chance to know what being a father really is. I started with very little time, increasing the time-share over months and months, and now I am almost at 50% time with my kid. It was also because I now have a steady job, show that I am responsible and can take care of my son. So, don't complain. The results are only as good as WHO YOU ARE. There are no miracles. You have to work with the system.

Dorothy Carfrae was referred to me by another Attorney who said "she is known at Norwalk Court as the DOG for Family Law. I needed to free myself of a very emotionally & physically abusive Husband. She put on a great ACT of compassion, took my money, but from then on her and her staff were very rude,... they didn't return my phone calls to say the least. The last days of my marriage, the police removed my then husband, a TRO was in-forced, which he violated over & over again. An Ex-Parte hearing from the Opposing Counsel was set, I showed up and she sent an Attorney who was just starting out, who didn't understand what the Judges instructions were and gave me wrong information regarding letting my then husband come to retrieve items from my garage. My husband showed up and I told him, he wasn't suppose to be at my home and I would call the police if he didn't leave, he chased me to my car and restrained me from driving off and was threatening me . My neighbors called the police out, I finally got a hold of Carfrae's office and her Paralegal answered, I was very shook up, her Paralegal was very rude. When I told her what My husband did, her Paralegal said " well what do you expect, the judge gave him two weeks to remove his items", I couldn't believe it and the inexperienced Attorney who Dorothy sent to court didn't understand the Judges orders. I told her I was going to get another Restraining Order because I was so afraid of my then husband. I believed he would do what he said to me. The Paralegal said she would let Dorothy know, two days later , still no return phone call, I filed my own TRO, the Judge signed it immediately, by the time I got home Carfrae's office was now calling me saying, " Dorothy is not happy with me for not waiting on her". Carfrae and her staff FAILED at providing the Fiduciary Duty a Professional is to have to their clients. I have since then told anyone who ask and there has been A LOT of people, WHO not to go to for Family Law matters! Sale and divide whats left, because if your EX doesn't pay the creditors he agreed to, they will come after you including Carfrae ! The Divorce Judgment doesn't matter ! I do believe in KARMA!