Patricia Joan Chvatal

Doesn't have an office staff to take calls. Doesn't keep appointments. Walks out of Mediation appointments. Will not sign nor respond to paperwork - Stalls. Obnoxious. Extremly Angry and Rude. Evil demranor. Steals your hard earned money. I do not know why the Mediators or Judges and Commissioners ...put up with her bahavior in Court.

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.

My initital visit she seemed to quickly understand the issues and its complexity and was very clear with me what needed to happen next. Within two days I provided the items she needed. Then the waiting began. No returned phone calls, and no returned e-mails and when I tried to make an appointment ...I was told the first available was 3 weeks away. For nine days I heard nothing from her. There was time sensitive materials to follow through on. My support people encouraged me to sit her in her lobby until I could meet with her. I did just that.. I sat in the lobby for approximately one hour. She came in and out of her office passing me every time. She chatted with her staff around the corner, where I could hear her talking about vacations, food and misc. topics. As she was going into her office a third time she asked me what I was doing in her lobby. I asked her a few questions and I asked her if what she had agreed to do got done. She then yelled at the legal secretary to write up to two letters. In one of the letters there was a deadline involved where action on the other party was required. I e-mailed on the day after the deadline inquiring if the party had responded. No return e-mail. I waited a few days and e-mailed again. No response. I called. No response. Finally 10 days after the deadline, after calling every hour, she took my call at around 3:00 pm. For 30 minutes she called me "stupid" nearly every sentence. When I asked questions about the deadline for the other party, she said like "Are you so stupid to think they were going to respond because of my deadline?". I had three other questions I needed answered. With every questions the response was something like "that is such a stupid question" or "you are so stupid to even be asking that question", I can't believe how stupid you are." There were items she asked me to follow through on and she told me how to follow through on them...she was very specific. I had followed through and she told me I was so stupid in the way I dealt with her requests from our initial, and only meeting. Then when I would let her know how I understood what she said in our initial meeting she yelled, "Don't you twist my words! I know what I said and didn't say. I don't need you to tell me what I said. I have a perfectly good memory!" She continued to yell and then she said "if I wasn't so stupid and did what I did there wouldn't even need to be legal proceedings."...close to those exact words. She kept telling me she couldn't believe how stupid I am, all the while yelling. At one point I told her that I was not stupid and in order to move foward she would have to get clear that I am not stupid. She then offered to outline in yellow highlighter all the stupid things I have said and done and written. I told her I would like her to do that and then she changed the subject. I came back to the subject of her highlightling in yellow the stupid things she thought I had done and written. She then said she would never do or put anything like that in writing. Then she asked me if I thought she was stupid and yelled something to the effect of "I would never be so stupid to do something like that. You are so stupid to think I would put anything like that in writing." This went on for 30 minutes of which I got an answer to only one question of my four questions. She said in my initital visit that these proceedings would stay in WA because of what she was going to do. This ended up not being true. I ended up having to hire an attorney from another state which, in hiring her, was the main thing I wanted to prevent in the first place. Hiring her was a complete disaster to say the least. Her yelling, her deep personal "digs" and the manner in which she belittled me was unbelievably shocking. As I outlined, she did not return phone calls or e-mails in a timely fashion. To get an appointment with her after the first initial appointment was very difficult....I never did! After the first initial meeting, she did not explain anything to me. When the lett