Craig Wymetalek

My ex husband refused to comply with an already existing order. Hired him to represent me on enforcement. Claimed he had filed, yet failed to ever come up with a court date. I made several attempts to contact him and he became unresponsive. I attempted to hire another attorney, and was told that Mr W...ymatalek would first need to remove himself from my case. Can’t do that if he won’t return phone calls, emails, or text messages. I finally had to file a comment against him with the bar.

Craig,I hired him as my attorney and paid him a retainer, never received any paper work on a retainer agreement, he then told me his wife had cancer, which I understand the feeling my mom passed away from cancer! Craig said everything was ok and can keep representing me in my manner, Craig would show... up in court and in trial with his shirt buttons not buttoned, I am fighting for custody of my child, my kids mom was using narcotics, and that was a big defense of mine! Yet the judge looked at Craig and said " I still do not know what drugs she was using". I wouldn't speak to Craig for weeks at a time and feel there is definatly a malpractice going on. I offered him payments and aggressively denied my payments because it wasn't enough. I still to this day havnt been shown his retainer agreement, to know what his minimum payment would be, also he had never signed any agreement m, I personally have had a horrible time with Craig Wymaltelak, and wish someone can read this so that they can understand what I went through!

I hired Mr. Wymetelak for my family law case involving domestic violence. This is obviously a high stakes situation involving issues of safety as well as usual divorce necessities. Mr. Wymetelak seemed attentive at first but then as the time of my restraining order drew near, his attention seemed t...o wander. He received notice from my husband's attorney that an objection to the restraining order was filed. DV social workers told me a hearing would be scheduled in 5 days standard procedure, but when I called Mr. Wymetelak he put me off saying that that particular county never scheduled anything sooner than 20 days out. We almost missed the hearing, scrambling the night before to poorly prepare. The hearing was scheduled exactly 5 business days from the objection filing. Mr. Wymetelak also misread a settlement offer to me. I was in an understandably emotional state and trusted him, so I did not ask for a copy in that moment. I went through a traumatic and expensive day at trial because of that misreading and possibly missed leverage opportunity also. Mr. Wymetelak did not interview my witnesses or advise me on what was inadmissible or not so I could not make a reasoned go to trial or not decision; I thought witnesses could testify about things they could not, yet they were at trial. Mr. Wymetelak did not read (or bring to court) important documents like police reports that he had been given 5 months prior to the hearing. Mr. Wymetelak wrote the original divorce decree granting property outright to my husband with no mention of mine (we had discussed differently). He brought me this version to sign. Even with all I was dealing with, I caught that error. Unfortunately Mr. Wymetelak also brought his integrity into question by refusing to honor a fee arbitration award and not paying for 10 months and then only because the OSB had to be involved.