Antonio Gonzalo Jimenez

Antonio did not listen to me, made wrong assumptions, was completely unprepared and and failed to prepare me. He promised he fought for father's rights, and after he got his retainer, he claimed he was not going to take a child form his "sweet young mother." The mother who abandoned her child to ru...n off with a truck driver, the mother who prostituted herself and exploited men and exploited my child, the mother who made huge cash for sexual services and spent it all on wild exploits, the mother who beat her child and her mother and me, and never showed any interest in being a mother at all. I had all the texts and emails and witnesses proving without a doubt that she is abusive and dangerous. Every member of her immediate family has disowned her. He didn't tell me we were going to trial until the last minute, and that left me unable to fire him and get a real lawyer. He claimed he never worked for me, he said he only works for himself. He said the trial would last a few hours - it lasted for 3 days. He ruined me financially, he told the judge I was a difficult client when he showed up to pretrial completely unprepared. I needed him to understand how really dangerous this woman was - but he would not listen and therefore did not know how to manage her in court. Thankfully the Judge saw that the woman was a bad mother - the mother admitted it herself. The woman wanted money, she didn't get it. She is very angry about it and takes it out on my child. We ended up with joint custody - which should not have happened had Antonio bothered to really care. He does what he wants to do, not what I hired him to do. After a few back and forth visits, she ran off with my child and I had no idea where she was with my child for months. I got none of my court ordered property - she sold it all, she stole all my money, she kept BOTH vehicles. When she has my child, he is housed in a tiny camper trailer with no physical address, right next to RR tracks and a major hwy with no fencing. My child has no bed and no bedroom. He has to sleep with his mother and her boyfriend and the 2 dogs and live in filth. My child comes to me and has nightmares about going back with his mother. He begs me not to let him go. He screams and fights and bites her when she comes to pick him up. She never picks him up during court-ordered hours - always late at night. My child is constantly beaten by his mother and her boyfriend. They say he is "in their way." He is currently getting psychological help and the child psychiatrist is trying to help save my child. We have to find a real attorney that can do a better job to save a child. Have been working hard to save the money that was wasted on Antonio. No question that there is prejudice against fathers in family court. Antonio did not fight for us. Not even a little bit. He just wants to be the nice guy. He wants everyone to like him. With all the objective evidence - this should have been an easy win. The mother should have had a psych evaluation, the evidence should have been brought to court. My child exists in a living hell because Antonio refused to believe that a women can be dangerous. She steals, she lies, she cheats. She is in all kinds of legal trouble. I am not at all exaggerating. I just hope I can get my child safe until this women gets her life sorted out. I do believe she should visit her son, but with supervision. I hold Antonio responsible for putting my child in harms way and causing me to lose everything. Antonio admitted to me that family law is not his thing.

Antonio sat practically mute in my contempt "hearing" against my former spouse, who has refused to pay ordered medical expenses for our children or to book appropriate plane tickets for their visits. He said nothing while opposing counsel berated me and called me names...It was a circus! Following th...e hearing, which resulted only in my former spouse being ordered to pay some of his backdue expenses, it took three months for the order to be written up. Antonio never sent me a draft. I received a final version which had eight errors, two of which were significant and egregious (of course, in my former spouse's favor) and quite different from what the judge had actually ordered. When I wrote to Antonio to complain and note these issues, he replied brusquely that he never should have taken the case because it was "petty". When I asked why he too it in that case, he promised to refund half of my retainer. While that does not fix the issues going forward with my ex as a result of this bad order, it did help to reassure me that perhaps Antonio's just a bad attorney, but not a dishonest one. However, this was three weeks ago, and he ignored the Zelle request he asked for and has ignored all subsequent requests to issue the refund he promised. Unfortunately, Antonio is not only incompetent at his practice, but is also a dishonest person.

My mom passed away 2 months ago and I needed help with the custody of my little sister. After making a lot of phone calls to different lawyers where I couldn't get to them directly, but with their secretaries or some others that were rude and trying to get more money from the case. I found him online..., I didn't know him and I liked the fact he picks up the phone and gives you advise or information over the phone without having to go to see him at the office and it made me feel confident that it was going to be a simple case. He was the only one I found who was charging me a flat fee, the other lawyers would tell me that they charge for sending documents and stuffs like that. Today we went to the court and now I have the custody of my sister! It was a stress free process for me and Antonio always answered my text messages and calls in a very polite manner. Thank you! I completely recommend him. P.D: After reading my post I feel like if I was paid to write reviews haha, but I feel so glad that everything went great with Antonio and he was a great lawyer!