Van Oliver Kinney

He charged me an OUTRAGEOUS retainer, sat on my divorce for 2 years and I still had to hire another attorney to get a simple divorce! I hired him as a divorce attorney at a $3500.00 upfront fee for a simple , mutually agreed upon divorce. Two years later, there was still no divorce! I requested my f...ile so that I could hire another attorney and in the case file, not only were there BLANK SHEETS of paper-but duplicates and triplicates from the paperwork that had been completed mostly by my ex-wife's attorney to make it look like I had a file! He never even showed up in court for the only appearance he ever needed to make on my behalf and then charged me more for the "stand in" attorney who knew nothing about my simple divorce case! He was rarely ever available over the two year period in which he drug out my divorce, never answered my questions, never read my documents and even tried billing me many more times for sitting on my divorce case unnecessarily for two years! The longer he sat on it, the more he continued to try to charge! I then hired a brilliant attorney that was able to achieve a bifurcation in 30 days for only $1000.00! Does Van Kinney know what a bifurcation is after "practicing" taking people's money for over 30 years? Research and get the service you pay for somewhere else! After my experience and reading the other reviews, I agree, how is this man still able to represent himself as an attorney? Based on my direct experience with Van Kinney, in my opinion, his actions bring disgrace upon himself and his profession by misrepresenting what he said he would do to ensure my divorce, taking my payment for a service he never delivered, and not even reading my submissions to be knowledgeable about my case. He threw red-herrings instead of answers. Zero accountability for his lack of action. Look at his Bar record. Read reviews from people that experienced his incompetence,which seems more to me like he just does not care and knows how to take advantage of people since it would be hard to be an attorney for that many years and hide behind the disguise of incompetence. Go any where else!