Patricia Joan Chvatal

Even though the process was hard, I found Pat Chvatal to be wonderful, while I was divorcing my ex! She is a delightful, passionate, and professional. If you want the best attorney in the Tri-Cities, get Pat Chvatal. She will fight for you! My experience is that all of these website are confusing.... Call her at 509-943-3331. E-mail her at [email protected]. I have found out that these are the best ways of contact.

My ex fought me all the way, went through medication, when it came to the final hearing she told me I didn't need to go. Then I get the final papers and half of what was agreed on was not in the papers. I filed bankruptcy to the tune of almost $30,000. This lawyer screwed up - BAD! Still fighting... issues 15 years later.

I had no knowledge of divorce proceedings and what to expect. Even though I was against getting a divorce, my divorce was non combative and non confrontational. However, I was set up with the worst parenting plan, and divorce decree imaginable. Of course I didn't find out until it was too late. Fo...r example, I was literally advised against 50%-50% shared custody that my X and I agreed to. Instead, Pat Chvatal set me up with 50%-50% shared visitation, and told me it was the same thing. Unfortunately, I believed her since I was paying her to advise me. In addition, to the parenting plan, medical premium credits in the child support worksheet were not given. For as easy as my divorce was there should never have been such poor service. Her services ended up costing me more than it should have (thousands $$- years down the road), and less time with my children. My advice is to trust yourself, and not your attorney. Your attorney does not know what is best for your children. If you love your children get 50/50 shared custody, and not 50/50 visitation or even joint custody (there is a difference). Be active in your children's lives, go to parent teach conferences, school events, med,dent, and optical appointments, sports events, dinner events, vacations etc., and document everything you do in a journal. 50/50 shared custody is the best and healthiest custody agreement for children as well as dealing with the X. There is tons of documentation supporting this.

I had a conference with this lawyer in regards of a divorce process. She gave me tons of false hopes simply to get the business and start draining me financially. She will charge $200 flat rate even for secretarial work! I got her assistant to do some forms for me and even before filing I alre...ady have been charge close to $1,000 Luckily I ran into a friend that had used her in the past for a child custody case and told me to drop her immediately. He paid her close to $5,000 and nothing got resolved. Stay away from this lawyer at any cost unless you have tons of time, patience and money.

The initial consultation was positive, she does have her sales pitch down. After providing her with her retainer fee “trust fund” she disappeared. The information I received about my divorce was actually obtained from my ex-husband, whom I was divorcing at the time. Even though my divorce was so ...amicable we didn’t even require a mediation appointment, Patricia managed to use all of the retainer fee with additional monies required. When I did try to get in contact with her office to find out where everything was with the divorce proceedings I had to call and leave multiple messages. When Patricia did finally return my phone call she was completely unprofessional and rude. In a case as easy as the one I provided, I would expect prompt professional service. Instead, I was met with blatant disregard, not a smart image to project in such a small town.