Paula Diane Kleinman

I hired Paula Kleinman to help me get unsupervised visits with my children after they were requested by my child’s mother due to a brain injury. At the initial meeting with Paula, she made me feel like she would be able to get me unsupervised visitation until she received the $3500 retainer fee and t...hats when her whole approach and effort changed. At my court hearing, she asked to sit and have a meeting with my sons mother that lasted over 2 hours at $300 a hour. During the meeting, there weren’t any points made by Paula, she was basically an expensive spectator or interpreter. When the meeting was completed she was not able to get me 1 thing I requested of her. I was ordered to have supervised visits at $40 a hour. When I fired Paula I Called and emailed multiple times to receive any remaining funds so I could hire a helpful lawyer, I WAS CHARGED TO FIRE WHICH WAS BILLED AS “Drafted email to client and substitution of attorney” for .2 of a hour $60. When I let her know that I would no longer be needing her services and to send me a substitution of attorney form, there apparently was another determined father that was also firing her that same day as Paula being the genius she is, sent me his substitution of attorney form. So I called no more than twice a day to get her to send the correct form and to receive my refund. I had no idea my refund was dwindling while I was contacting her to receive it. Upon asking Paula Kleinman what she did for me, this was her exact response “Please review the custody order wherein I negotiated you to have no supervised visits and mother to pay one-half of day. Please review the DCSS wherein the one-half payment of the professional supervision will take be applied.” It states she negotiated for me to have no supervised visits and for mother to pay “one-half of day”, now IF no supervised visits were granted then what is mother to pay half of? Mother made the offer to take half of the paid supervisor out of her already over $2000 a month child support. NOT Paula. At the end of everything, Paula was no help to me whatsoever, if anything she hurt me because she couldn’t speak to my child’s mother with respect.

If you are a military spouse, need an aggressive attorney who is knowledgeable about family law...DO NOT GO TO HER! I gave this attorney my last 2k for a retainer, she worked (I use that term very loosely) on the case for 3 months at the most. Once she went through the retainer...which I don't know h...ow since she did nothing for me. She represented me in court and talked negatively about me to the other party. She stated she couldn't represent me TO him and his attorney. Not only was this verified through my husband but also in emails from his attorney. How unprofessional and disrespectful of an attorney. Also, convenient for her that the retainer was gone when she started asking to withdraw from the case. She then ignored my phone calls and emails for over a month and a half and told the other party I was not responding. I have actual billing statements given to me by the other party that show this. A week before my trial, sent me an email to sign a paper to get another attorney. I even asked her to send one email to the other party to try and resolve the case and no response. Besides her complete incompetency, her responses she prepared were nothing like a trained professional would write.