Anne Rebecca Fokstuen

Successful 60% of the time but often required many trips back to court for basic outcomes. Simple matters and details that made negative, big differences in our case, were things she would just ignore. She does not represent well in a hearing and her paperwork was often riddled with typos and inaccur...acies. Most organized paperwork was always her bill. She is constantly on vacation, unreachable, disorganized, as expensive as the bigger more skilled firms, and in general just someone I regret working with even though she did have some “wins” (if there is such a thing in family law).

We hired her to process a simple, amicable, no stress divorce to be filed by the end of 2022. She charged $3000. We submitted paperwork in April 2022. She did not submit the second round of paperwork we had signed in October until November. I asked a friend of mine to check and see the Court record a...bout where we were at. The record showed the document for the judge to sign had been rejected on Dec 2. She did not tell us this; rather, in response to our inquiry said “these things can take from 4 weeks to 3 or 4 months”. My lawyer friend told me that these rejections are due to not filling out forms correctly or missing boxes to check!, which when confronted Fokstuen then admitted. My lawyer friend also told me to ask her to backdate the document through a process called “nunc pro dunc”, which she did not respond to. Instead, after our nth reminder, and insistence that this must be completed by Dec 30, 2022, she offered that we could pay a Private Judge” to sign off before the deadline- for more money. We agreed, what else could we do? As I said, a simple process that someone with 19 years of experience should be able to do. But no. Is this her scam? I’ll give her the benefit of the doubt: she’s inattentive, a prevaricator, and incompetent.