Todd Richard DeVallance

I have been divorced for almost seven year and have joint custody of my 3 teenage sons. Todd helped me with a complex, very contentious, child custody case with my ex husband. A year ago, my ex husband decided to use my short term personal struggles as an opportunity to try to get custody of th...e boys and child support. He was unwilling to work together and support me in the short term despite our history of working together supporting each other for the good of our children. It has taken close to a year to resolve this due to my ex husbands unwillingness to be reasonable. This involved multiple court hearings for motions filed by my ex. Todd prevailed in every hearing. His expertise is evident and his advice was always right on. Not only is Todd have the highest standards of professionalism, he is compassionate and caring. He always responded to my questions, even on evenings and weekends. Todd was realistic yet always kept things in a positive light. He kept the focus on the long term goal which was to maintain the existing parenting plan and 50/50 residential schedule. With Todd’s help that was accomplished through a settlement offer a few weeks ago. There is nothing more important to me than my three sons. With Todd’s help, the goal was achieved and the parenting plan and residential schedule were retained. I also felt that Todd was excellent at keeping legal fees as reasonable as possible. He works very efficiently. This was a very hard time in my life, but it was certainly made better by working with Todd. My ex husband was and still is very bitter and vindictive. He had an aggressive, bull dog attorney. She didn’t seem to have an ounce of compassion and had no qualms about making false accusations and using underhanded tactics against me. Without Todd’s representation I am don’t believe I would have fared nearly as well under those conditions. Today I am able to move past this and look to the future and the years to come with my boys. I would recommend Todd to anyone, he really is the best!

Todd took over my case after choosing a money hungry shark to help me out with my very complicated case, my previous attorney was very unprofessional and really put me in the worst situation, things couldn't of been any worst, I had lost my daughter, after being the primary parent for her since she w...as born, to lies by my now ex husband that i proved were incorrect yet my previous attorney had not a clue what she was doing so I got screwed over and my daughter taken away and my ex was granted temporary custody and to make things worst he was military and was going to be living in Hawaii, my previous attorney did nothing , she didn't stand up for me she just agreed with everything and always made me feel like I was a horrible person, I had to do a lot to prove myself that I wasn't this crazy person that I was made out to be, and losing my daughter completely destroyed me, I didn't know what to do, I felt hopeless, lost and honestly I just hated my life, things kept on getting worst the harder I tried, And i was 100% in compliance with everything but still it wasn't good enough and nothing got any better.. But then I meet Todd he was very different from all the others, he was confident, straight forward and honest with me about everything, and he made me feel comfortable and seemed to understand me, and actually cared about my case and knew what he was talking about, very professional and knew the laws very well, he saw where my attorney had messed up and everything. To be honest yes Todd seemed great but I was already so broken and felt hopeless I didn't know what to expect from a different attorney since I had such a bad experience with my first attorney, right away he took charge he gave me a list of things to do, told me what we were going to do, what we were going to go forward with the courts, and when, he gave me hope to see things differently in a positive light, he wasn't just an attorney but he felt like he became a good friend, someone I could truly trust, and with him knowing everything about me, I never felt so comfortable talking to anyone like I did with him, he never judged me and he really believed in me and encouraged me and really made me feel better about my situation and my self physically, mentally and emotionally. My case was a very bumpy roller coaster, and I felt so discouraged at times but Todd kept on fighting for me even when I wanted so much to give up, he'd tell me "things are going to change, things WILL get better " he'd talk to me even after hours at night when I was just crying and asking myself why everything was happening this way, when my ex would say things like "no attorney is going to give you what you want......"you would need a miracle to have things change"....."he only wants you for your money" and a lot of those things got to me, I was already at the losing side of the stick it felt, but my gut told me to trust Todd, he was so kind to me like no one had ever been and he cared about my case and me as a person, not just as a client. Our first court appearance was with a commissioner Todd told me flat out what was likely to happen, and it did, and then I was very discouraged and had lost some hope, but the tricky part was that that was his plan to go through the commissioner to get down to then go in front of a judge, The way Todd spoke of me was very genuine, he made me feel like I was a good person and more confident about myself, he stood up for me and fought for me his hardest he put so much time and effort into my case it was unbelievable how hard someone would fight for me, Todd literally saved my life he took a broken down woman with a broken down case, and turned it all completely around, he gave me back what I had lost for a whole year he gave me back my confidence, my life, my dignity and most important my daughter, he was my "MiRACLE" .

If anyone is looking to hire a lawyer for divorce and/or for a parenting plan, Todd DeVallance from Tsai Law firm is great! He is intelligent, flexible, honest, and reasonable. Working with him made the stress of dealing with my case so much easier to handle, as I knew there was someone to fight f...or what I wanted.

I adore and admire this attorney. Like another reviewers, I have worked with "Super Lawyers" who didn't care about me, but no one was like Mr. DeVallance. He was kind. He looked out for my best interest. AND HE IS COMPETENT! I'm afraid Todd is too popular now and would not have time for me ba...se on the number of positive reviews here. But he should know many people sing praises about him because of his work ethics! What a rare find in family law profession!

Todd agreed to represent me during a very complicated divorce. It involved such issues as a military spouse on deployment, living in a different state, questionable previous legal representation, and issues that were ongoing without resolve. He addressed each issue in its entirety and was compassiona...te during this very extended process. He and Kim, his legal assistant, went above and beyond what I could have ever expected. I would recommend Mr. DeVallance and am very pleased with the outcome of my case!