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Showing 1 - 5 of 14 reviews | Child Custody

Posted by anonymous | March 20, 2024 | Hired Attorney

Patience and integrity

Gwynna and her team excellently helped me navigate some of the most difficult times in my life. Gwynna represents herself, and therefore her clients, with the highest of all integrity. She did not “play dirty” when the other side chose to do so and helped look after the best interest of the children... and myself above all else. She is also able to council and sympathize with care and compassion and most of all, patience.

Posted by anonymous | March 17, 2021 | Hired Attorney

Extremely satisfied

Gwynna and her team were knowledgeable, thoughtful and professional; always delivering a high level of service with thorough details, every step of the way. I felt certain of my choice as soon as I met Gwynna, she understood my goal of an amicable process and the importance of this with kids. I fel...t protected and secure throughout the entire process. Her and her team were sensitive but firm in their recommendations for the best possible outcome for my divorce. I really relied on their expertise from the property settlement to the custody plan, they explained everything and sometimes more than once just to be certain I understood. I really appreciate my experience and would highly recommend Gwynna. Thank you so much!

Posted by Peter | January 24, 2020 | Hired Attorney

Outlining a series of Mistakes

Gwynna seems great, I immediately connected with her personality and she seemed like the good kind person to go up against the other litigious lawyer. I'm just going to outline her mistakes one by one so others can know that at least in my case did a terrible job at representing me from the beginning... until the end. 1. Gwynna forgets to confirm our first trial hearing. This pushes the case back a few months. After such a huge mistake you'd think she'd be extra prepared on our actual court date. 2. When we go to court, Gwynna has another mediation trial on that date. Gwynna is unprepared, weak, and does nothing to defend me. The other lawyer comes down hard and I get supervised visitation something I would never have gotten with a better attorney. 3. Gwynna suggests I not work. so that i can focus on the case. This was poor advice for a father who's career is up in the air. 4. Gwynna suggests that I give my ex $700 a week voluntarily as child support, to make it 'not about money'. That's a lot of money for someone who doesn't make any. 5. Gwynna decides to send me to a consultant. A forensic psychiatrist who works in the child custody field to prepare me for my meeting with the parenting evaluator. This was totally not needed and I didn't ask for it. Gwynna withheld the information she had that my parenting evaluator and the forensic psychiatrist had professional beef at the arch-nemesis level. I had to hear that from the consultant she sent me. 6. Gwynna also withholds information that she has that the parenting evaluator is a lesbian women. 7. Parenting evaluator finds out that I saw her arch-nemesis and writes a letter saying she does not know if she can continue to write the report in an unbiased way because I have seen her arch-nemesis. 8. I should have been told that she was a lesbian at that point at least so i could have made an informed decision. The opposing counsels father is gay, her best friend is gay, there was all sorts of identifying going on. Also, the evaluator I believe because she was a lesbian (or just the kind of person she was i don't want to generalize all lesbians) was prone to be swayed by bias. She wrote a report where she just believed everything the mother said and nothing I said. 9. Gwynna quit at a crucial time right before she left Tedd Billbe to start her own firm. 10. $1.5 million dollars. I got nothing. Possibly 3 hour visits in Anacortes every other week. But i fighting to just get that now. Other problems. She has issues with anxiety, this is not a good fit for someone who is anxious about what might happen with your child. She sometimes loses her temper. She didn't know, how to take control of a situation where both my parents and I were involved in communication. I literally cannot think of one good thing that Gwynna did for me or my family. She made mistakes at every turn, she caused more anxiety. She also fell into traps of the other lawyer. First court date Gwynna is mumbling how she hates 'Katherine K' as she hurriedly signs off on something so she can get to her other tiral. Basic lawyer tricks Gwynna just doesn't know or do, she thinks and tries to convince you that playing nice is the only way to go. Other examples of how she got out lawyered...When trying to hire a consultant for trial she puts the name of the consultant in a court announcement instead of just saying Specialist TBD. Then the next day the opposing counsel's lawyer highers someone from the same firm so Gwynna can't hire her. Her lawyer new better and just said Specialist TBD on her form. After this i remember her drawing my dad and my a picture about how Katherine K was a full service lawyer. I don't know what level of service Gwynna is but it's a level of service that just isn't effective.

Posted by Kelly | September 17, 2019 | Hired Attorney

Professionalism at its best!

I hired Gwynna Biggers Norman a few years back to assist in co-parenting issues I was having with my ex husband. Gwynna was instrumental in providing a platform for us to resolve on-going financial and decision making issues. Most recently, I hired Gwynna to rewrite the parenting plan and acquire fu...ll decision making custody of my children. It was a long process but in the end we were successful in gaining custody all due to Gwynna's hard work and experience! Through the process, Gwynna made me feel very comfortable, was willing to facilitate communication between me and my ex husband, all while considering the children's well being and not adding strain to the situation for anyone involved. I would recommend Gwynna to anyone needing any assistance with their divorce or co-parenting resolution.

Posted by Steven | September 16, 2019 | Hired Attorney

Steven Caughell CEO CPRS

My wife and I hired Gwynna to help navigate a poorly written separation and custody agreement. The matter was not amicable, and took good solid legal work. We had several court dates and with Gwynna's advice avoided trial. We received all the major concessions we were seeking.

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