Lynn C Tuttle

I'm a 54-year-old father, I've never been arrested. I don't do drugs. The police have never come to my house. I have owned a business of over 30 years. My last speeding ticket was 10 years ago when my wife and I were riding our Harley's through the farmlands of Wyoming. I was married for 13 years... and have an 8-year-old son. I have tolerated my in-laws telling me I'm stupid, I'm lazy and I'm cheap, and that my son would be stupid if he didn't attend SCD. My in-laws are European each with a PhD. Me, I'm a farm boy from Oregon that made good money fishing in Alaska. When I finally told my in-laws to F***/off for telling me my son would be stupid if he didn't attend SCD I was served with divorce papers five days later. I felt a 50/50 co-parenting was fair. However, my wife's parents didn't think so. Since we couldn't agree on an equitable parenting plan the attorneys hired Lynn Tuttle. Lynn's process took better than 8 months, costing over $9,000 and I only met with her twice for a total of 4 hours. Part of Lynn's process (next to losing crucial fax/emails) is to have each parent provide 3 letters regarding each husband / wife's parenting ability. I supplied what Lynn wanted; 3 support letters of how I am as a father. I do all the cooking, shopping, I do laundry, I clean the house, I'm a house Dad and involved. Additionally I spend 2 - 3 days a week at my son's school at lunch. However when it came to my ex-wife, her (3) letters didn't support her parenting ability, but rather focused on criticizing me. Describing me as an alcoholic, abusive, and incompetent with added accusations of "hiding money". There was even mention of me "Peeing off a dock 26 years ago". Now what does this have to do with my wife's parenting skills? Absolutely NOTHING. Lynn didn’t know that 2 of the three letters provided were from sub-contractors for my ex-wife with one of them receiving over $50,000 / year in compensation. For my own self-help to deal with the bullying my In-laws were inflicting I attended Anger Management, (self-enrolled), for 16 sessions. I learned how to deal with her family bullying me for being uneducated, and much more. However, the ink hadn't even dried on our deposition and my ex-wife's attorney sent a letter to Lynn stating only "Mr. Schneider didn't get anything from Anger Management". Lynn gave me ZERO opportunity to rebut these accusations. Instead, ALL the letters became apart of the parenting plan that puts restrictions on the time I get with my son. I'm not a perfect parent. It's hands on learning. But I now realize the "only resolution" to a Lynn Tuttle involvement is someone is going to have their time restricted with their children. And, you'll be required to attend a classes of what Lynn likes to think is needed help. It doesn't matter if you're the mother or the father, I'll almost guarantee you you'll have to attend some type of Anger Management and then the Wellsprings or similar program. Combined, a good year of your life and $1,000's of dollars of cost. And dealing with the humiliation of it.

Would not recommend her as a Parenting Evaluator to anyone. She was late to appointments and even had to call her to remind her of an appointment when she was a no show. Took large retainer and immediately went on two vacation in a short period of time without informing us. She was very disorganiz...ed and sometimes absent minded. It took her 7 months to do a report instead of 3 months. Her poor work ethic made it very difficult to work with her. Used our life savings to pay her hefty bills also most $8,000 and she wanted to drag it further out. We had to put a stop to it. Her sloppy work was not worth our time or money!!! I am sure there are other Gal's/Parenting Evaluators out there with much better moral, ethical and work values. Do your research but avoid her.