Craig Richard Van Thiel

I thoroughly recommend this firm and the lawyers if you are seeking for someone courteous, considerate, and sensitive to support you through your divorce. Attorney Craig Richard Van Thiel and attorney Grant Bayerle assisted us in proceeding through the separation procedure in timely, reasonable term...s. They were  comprehensive and reliable, making sure we both understood exactly what we were agreeing to and that we had a child care plan that would be the most beneficial for our son.

Most people don't expect to ever have to go through using a divorce lawyer when they're married but if you find yourself in this unfortunate circumstance, these are definitely the guys to go to. I would highly recommend them to friends and family. They maintain communication through the whole proce...ss and are very business saavy. If you are looking for a great divorce lawyer in the Oceanside area, definitely look up the attorneys at Fischer & Van Thiel.sammy

I hired craig for my very difficult divorce - he was more interested it doing things the "easy" way, I would get numerous emails regarding the exact same things we had previously discussed, only to be billed multiple times for the same thing. I had to constantly hold his hand and coach him on what th...e facts were. Settlement was a disaster - I had written signed agreement with ex that he would bear all childrens student loan costs, and craig thought it would be fair for me to take the loans that were in my name - I was unaware that there were any in my name (30 year marriage) - ex said, "oh, I think there's one, craig said "be fair" if theres only 20,000 in your name you should just take the responsibility of that one" - I wanted to clarify a few things before the judge - he said "you cannot talk", He wanted it over asap. The student loans? 100,000 - all were in my name, He was extremely poor and unprofessional in handling a difficult case - he would yell and scream at me about my ex - yet didn't have the guts to fight back. DO NOT hire this man if you need to win

My wife made claims about me, saying that I had abused her and forced himself upon her. I hired Craig to help me through it; it didn't help. I found him to be hard to communicate with, not very insightful as to the issues of my case. I ended up with a restraining order against me and he didn't even c...all the witnesses that could prove that none of this it happened. He assured me that he had my case in hand and I was safe with him, but I wasn't. I now have to pick up the pieces of my life with the stain of being labeled a "domestic abuser." As you can probably tell, I am not at all happy with the services of this lawyer. My career, my reputation, my relationship with my kids, have all been severely damaged by his lack of attention or at minimum is lack of skill as an attorney.

Hired Craig for a complicated divorce and custody case. Yet Im still married. He seemed to have either underestimated the case or willingly taken it without having the required skills and knowledge was not kept informed very well if at all. Craig has a very poor personality and does not seem to perso...naly care very much. I would not recommend. Dont waste your money.