Patricia Joan Chvatal

I had evidence there was negotiation with the opposing counsel without my presence. She put minimal effort into my case. I went there because she had a fierce reputation for representing women, sadly that has been years ago and her fire has gone out. Admittedly she said, I don't manage money well so ...I'll just keep working. Very sad, it's all about sustaining her office, not your interests.

Hired for divorce and custody. She didn’t cross examine and failed to present evidence the clearly showed the other party was lying! She failed to present evidence including tapes of the threats and intimidation made by other party. She tried to extort money from me to return my photos! She failed to... appear for the hearing and sent out nasty letters saying we didn’t show up; the court records stated she was in another court. She sent the bills to collection and they responded that she did her job so poorly she shouldn’t be paid. And I still don’t have the pictures of my son because I refused to pay her for them! I took the pictures and gave them to her for my case but she didn’t use them! And here now 30 years later I still don’t have them! She avoided legal filings that caused more litigation fees and hearings.

Patricia Chvatal know how to set you up after being a attorney for 41 years. She will tell you everything you want to hear, just to get a contract from you.Ms. Chvatal will walk out of meeting with you, to go help another client, even the settlement conference. Her staff will make error on your bill ...and Ms Chvatal will try to take every $ you have for all her trip, she take while she is working on your case. When you have a meeting with Ms. Chvatal will talk about everything like to join her church, your dog ,your childhood,and wanting you to vote for attorney that she want to be the next Judge .I guess she think that will help her in court. Then,when you get her bill all that time you spent with her is on your bill. Ms. Chvatal did not check to see how much money my x wife had in her retirement.I found out after I fired Ms. Chavatal after the divorce was over and hire another attorney to fix the error she made on the final divorce and he found that my x- wife had pulled $85,555 out of community property retirement account and did not disclose that to the courts before the divorce was over. There was a court order that all large amount of money taken out of account was to be disclosed. I hire different attorney and save my part of my share of her retirement account, He even had to track her down in Florida, When she went missing. The mistake that Ms Chvatal made ,it took a year and 1/2 after my divorce to get my money from my x-wife retirement account and more attorney bill, the total cost for both attorney this was over $35,000.