Adam Ballout

Some people may have the misconception that it’s only bio families who are harassed by CPS. That’s not the case. Unfortunately, our family experienced the wrath of CPS as we were trying to help vulnerable children who had been placed into the foster care system. We are experienced foster parents, lic...ensed for nearly 9 years, with a squeaky-clean foster license. What began as an employee not liking me personally, snow-balled into a full attack on our family. We retained Adam to protect our family and he did exactly that. He is intelligent, kind and understanding. His dedication to our case has been remarkable. Adam is approachable and extremely knowledgeable with dependency cases. He’s easy to talk to and explains things in a way that we always understand. Most of all, he won our case, which was a very sticky contested adoption. We couldn’t have retained a better attorney. We will be forever grateful for his dedication and hard work.

While in the process of separation/divorce, I was surprised one evening with a phone call from cps announcing that there had been some allegations made against me of child abuse and neglect. They then went on to explain that an investigation into the matter had already begun and that they had intervi...ewed my children earlier in the day at their school/daycare. Based on the details of what I was being accused of, I had a pretty good idea who was behind the report. While obvious to me this was all false, the possibility of losing my children had me terrified and I was afraid to talk to the case worker without some advice. The next day I explained the circumstances to my family law attorney, who then referred me to Adam at ABC Law Group. What a relief! It was immediately clear, from Adam Ballout's initial consultation, I had found the person I was looking for. He was very knowledgeable, thorough and supportive in his communication. He helped me sort through the details and regain the confidence I needed to adequately explain what really happened and provide the full picture to my appointed case worker. As a result, all of the charges have been deemed unfounded and my boys and I are happily getting our lives back on track. Thanks Adam! You're the best!

We began receiving harassing calls from CPS after a person at my daughters school made a bogus complaint. After a lot of sleepless nights and being treated like criminals by the social worker our friend at work referred us to Adam's office. We met with him and he walked us through what the process wa...s going to look like and came with us to our next meeting. Our next meeting was a 180 change from the one before and we were finally allowed to present our side of what was happenening without being interrupted or talked down to. We didnt know we could have family and friends attend the meeting with us before and this time we had people from our church and neighbors who've seen us with our children there and speaking up for us. The allegations against our family came back and not true and we avoided having cps in our lives. Adam was a dear through the whole ordeal and kept reassuring us that things were going to be ok and that we would have our voices heard. He kept in contact with us and also helped relay to the worker our frustrations with the process and having our kids talked to at school without us knowing about it or having any say. if anyone is ever going through this with their kids i would tell them to get Adam on your side right away. thank u!

I've never written a review before but felt compelling to after my case ended. Mr. Ballout was a total professional in meeting with me and my husband. He was patient in answering our questions and information he didn't have he obtained quickly and got back to us. I never felt that we were being "law...yered" or talked down to at all. Mr. Ballout was proactive and would check in with us to provide updates on how our case was progressing and let us know what to expect. I will be recommending Mr. Ballout to friends and family.

Adam was recommended to us by a co-worker at Boeing. Our family was recently involved with CPS and had no idea how to deal with a very hostile and very complicated process. Adam met with me and explained the process and attended 3 meetings with us, during that time we were able to find out exactly wh...y these allegations were happening. The contrast between how we were treated during that first meeting and the second meeting when we had a lawyer was night and day. The first meeting everyone was hostile and my wife and I felt very much like we were on trial somehow with the social worker telling us that we did things we did not. Once we were at the second meeting the entire tone changed and we were allowed to talk and present paperwork and our view of what was happening. We were able to meet with Adam, who we could tell knew his stuff. I was immediately relieved after leaving his office and felt like for once in this whole process we actually had a plan for what to do. Not having a voice or being able to say what you need to say was incredibly frustrating. I can say definitively that our family is together still because of his intervention. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND Adam to any family dealing with CPS.