Andrew David Peach

When my wife obtained a "protection" order against me, because she was tired of listening to my complaints about her relationship with our daughters' kung fu instructor, I hired Andrew Peach to get the order canceled or quashed. We walked into the courtroom with evidence that she had committed per...jury to obtain the order, and that further, the order had been issued illegally because her petition did not meet the requirements under RCW 26.50.070(1). But instead of fighting the order, Peach immediately held a private discussion with my wife’s attorney, coming back with a proposal to let me visit my children if I agreed to supervision and a psychiatric examination – despite the fact that my wife had made no accusations that I had abused our children. Further, he failed to inform me that my agreeing to the proposal would put an end to the hearing – that I would lose the chance to challenge the order. Desperate to see my children, I immediately agreed to the proposal – and the judge brought down the gavel and declared the hearing over. His failure to have the order quashed led to serious legal complications for me. Immediately after being served with the order, I had asked a friend to tell my wife that I forgave her. The State, apparently assuming the order was legal, later brought charges against me for violating the no-contact clause of the order and I had to pay $2500 for an attorney to convince the jury I was innocent. Years later, my (now ex-) wife admitted that her attorney had taken seriously the possibility of our filing perjury charges against her. To this day, I believe that, faced with the prospect of perjury charges and the order being quashed, my wife would have opted for counseling and mediation to resolve our dispute, sparing our two daughters the trauma of divorce. As near as I can see, when Peach saw the prospect of divorce, he saw the opportunity for charging thousands of dollars in fees instead of the mere $750 for overturning a protection order, and immediately sold out my interests to line his pockets. Peach is NOT an attorney you want to trust to defend your interests. Probably the best use you could make of his services is to somehow trick your opponent into hiring him.