Kyle Joseph Siems

My experience with Kyle was deeply disappointing and ultimately damaging. I retained Kyle from late 2017 through mid-2023 for a complex, high-conflict custody and child support matter. During this period, I was unemployed, facing a federal civil lawsuit by the FTC, and under an asset freeze. Despi...te repeated requests—documented in emails over multiple years—for Kyle to correct my temporary child support obligations using proper guideline calculations (which would have shown the mother owing me support), he failed to act. On his advice, I stipulated in early 2018 to pay $3,000/month “without prejudice,” under the belief that we would later correct the figures retroactively. However, when the FTC filed suit and froze my assets in late 2018, Kyle refused to address support at our November 2018 hearing. He advised against pursuing the issue, despite my financial hardship and the mother’s continued employment and higher income. His October 16, 2018 response to my concerns was: “I'd like to avoid all that at this point, if at all possible, as the cost is going to outweigh the benefit.” In hindsight, this decision has been devastating. That temporary order—never corrected—ultimately led to an erroneous $109,000 arrears judgment based on numbers the mother submitted to DCSS on her FL-420 and FL-421 forms. These inflated figures were taken at face value, and I am still fighting to unwind them in court. DCSS now confirms the mother, who earns four times my income, should be paying me support. Yet I cannot receive it because of these “arrears” she is being reimbursed for—based on flawed, outdated data Kyle never challenged. I’m now forced to pursue a motion to vacate this judgment on my own, because Kyle refuses to assist in fixing this monumental error. In addition, I asked Kyle for years to seek a restraining order due to repeated abusive conduct by the mother toward me and the children. He declined to pursue it. After relieving him, I filed for a TRO on my own and was granted one that lasted 7 months—proving that my concerns were valid and should have been raised long before. I eventually decided to allow the DVRO to expire because the mother stipulated to quit acting in a list of abusive ways to the children and I. This review is hard to write, as I once viewed Kyle as a trusted advisor and even a friend. But I spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on his services, and in the end, I was left unprotected and saddled with legal and financial burdens that could have been avoided. Based on my experience, I cannot recommend his representation. He is also ignoring me.

I contacted kyle to help me with my child custody and support case. I gave him all the money I had to get the retainer done and make sure things would start moving. He started out great and working on my case, but then when it came to fighting against my ex for custody and support he didn't want to d...o anything I recommended or wanted. He advised me to just go along with what they wanted and that it was the best I could get. I was in military and had a reliable car a reliable job and a stable house for my daughter to be in and her mom barely worked had no car and lived with relatives or friends or her mom when she wasn't fighting with her and had a domestic violence case against her. In the end I got only 30% custody so only 3 weekends a month and some holidays and was paying over 600 in child support a month on top of being the only one that traveled to see my daughter as I worked and lived 3 hours away. I drove to get her and back to drop her off. Kyle didn't fight to get me anything better and went well over the 3,000 retainer some how. Even other lawyers I talked to said he didn't strive to get me anything better. His own office at the time waived the rest of my fees because they knew he didn't get me anything. I wouldn't recommend this lawyer.