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Joedy Paul Defrank

Licensed for 43 years

Family Lawyer at Sacramento, CA
Practice Areas: Family

2386 Fair Oaks Blvd Ste 202, Sacramento, CA

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Licensed in California for 43 years

State: California

Acquired: 1982

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Joedy Paul Defrank Attorney at Law

2386 Fair Oaks Blvd Ste 202, Sacramento, CA, 95825-4751

Law Offices of Joedy Paul Defrank

2386 Fair Oaks Blvd Ste 202, Sacramento, CA, 95825-4751

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3.1 /5.0

23 Client Reviews

Showing 1 - 5 of 9 reviews | Responsiveness

Posted by Mary bazil | May 23, 2019 | Hired Attorney | Guardianship

Great attorney

I am Mary Bazil I was denied today by the judge to have gardeningship of my grandson. Received Approval from RFA with letter, certificated and cpr certified. CPS, lost first application October 5th that was turned in by me. Orientation was the 2nd October. CPS Notified me November 7th by a c...all from mr. Hale. (Please note I called mr. Hale September after first court day.).LEFT message Please call me. November 7 th mr. Hale finally returned my call . Because he was in forming me RFA NEVER RECEIVED my application for RFA October 5th. But mr Hale made an appointment to do an assessment on me 19th November. And from there on how CPS/RFA WAS DEHIMULATING TO ME. I jumped in and did what CPS/RFA ASKED FOR. Can you be of help to fight CPS. Again iam approved by. RFA / CPR JUDGE SAID THE CHILD IS TO OLD TO MOVE OUT OF FOSTER CARE. THE FOSTER PATENTS WANT TO ADOPT. MARY EVELYN BAZIL. 916 747 0286

Posted by Taylor R | October 19, 2018 | Hired Attorney | Lawsuits & Disputes

Hes a snake in the grass scammer.

AVOID HIM AT ALL COSTS. If I could give him less stars I would. He is a scam artist. He never calls me back. His secretary would leave me on hold for so long until I would hang up. Then she would just ignore my calls. I know that because she answer immediately when I called from my another number.... She proceeded to say he answered but my connection was bad. # Bad at calls When he finally did answer my call weeks later he said I was a low priority client. My question is after working with him for little under a year. With all of this. How does he have any clients. # Took 2 grand and did nothing After my loss I was sent an invoice for a grand more. When he has never explained how the original grand was used. # Never showed up to court He would miss court. An claim he was never served with the papers. So he "would file" an appeal. Which never shows up in the case files. *If you go online you can check the progress of your case, just cannot download any files* It's all public information. That is how I know hes a lair. What papers he did "service" the respondent. Were never signed dated or even filed with the court. # Would leave aggressive voicemails I got a call from a very angry ex, whom shared with me the voicemails he would leave them. Hostile, boarderline violent, mean and threatening them. I hired him yes but not to abuse my ex. # He would Submit to the courts unfinished, poorly written and badly spelled documents. Every document he did submit was poorly written and always misspelled. The judge laughed at this. I looked like an idiot. # He never updated me on my case Up until the last court date. I never knew what was happening. Only thing he would tell me is that my pos ex would get what's coming. That I was in complete compliance of the law. When it came down to the last court date I was almost thrown in jail for my negligence. I was listening to my lawyers advice and it nearly wound me up in jail. Not only that I now have to pay 6x more then what I would have been if I never hired him. # Nor told me I needed to file or submit any documents. I was never told I had to submit any kind of documents. Which helped my ex win there case. # I lost my case due to his negligence. Not only did I lose, he was not even sorry and the day before court he charged me another grand which I never got back after the loss. # I never recieved a single email or document from him or his secretary. He never showed me how he spent my retainer. My ex showed me the timesheets they recieved from there lawyer. Down the the minute was charged and labled. # He would claim to have never recieved any sort or document or summons from the respondent. He played dumb saying he never recieved anything even after I saw that he was faxed everything. I dont understand we took an oth and he flat out lies. Over and over. To the point I feel he honestly believes it. There is something seriously wrong with this man. #He will take your money and never see you again. HES CHEAP FOR A REASON! HE WILL DO NOTHING!

Posted by Kamille | October 02, 2014 | Divorce & Separation

Family Court Issue-Divorce

He handled my case very well. Costs were reasonable and he did everything in a timely manner and made sure that I was well informed as to what to expect, what the next steps would be in the process and so on. He has a very direct way to communicate, which I greatly appreciated. He was easy to contact... via telephone and email. He also did all contact with my ex, which helped to make it a smooth process for everyone. He traveled to Southern California for my case and helped to alleviate any worry or stress that I had. He was referred to me by family and friends. I would also refer him to others and have already.

Posted by Joseph | September 08, 2014 | Divorce & Separation

Do not hire this attorney

I flat out laugh at these canned 4+ star ratings. I hired Joedy from a pre-paid legal service that I had from my work. Joedy was incompetent from the start. He failed to file my income reports at the first divorce hearing and told me that he would just get a continuance. He was denied the contiuan...ce and my now exwife got 3/4 of my paycheck because he screwed up. He then refused to return my phone calls and it took over a year for him to finalize my divorce. I had to threaten to report him to the CA Bar to get him motivated. I ended up doing all if the leg work from 1200 miles away. But if your soon to be ex is in need of lawyer recommend this joke for sure.

Posted by anonymous | October 17, 2013 | Divorce & Separation

DO NOT RECOMMEND

VERY DISSATISFIED. DOES NOT RETURN CALLS, NOT CUSTOMER ORIENTED AND TAKES A LONG TIME TO FINISH CASE. IT'S BEEN OVER A YRAR AND MY DIVORCE IS STILL NOT FINAL. POOR CUSTOMER RELATIONS.

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