Maria Obdulia Padgett

I'm a trust beneficiary in a case where the trustee misappropriated trust estate funds. I was fearful of the trustee (for reasons I will not disclose here). My good friend referred me to Ms. Maria. The attorney Ms. Maria worked everything out with the trustee's lawyer so the estate got paid back, e...verything was kept out of court, and best of all, each beneficiary received their true share amount according to my parents' trust documents. I am truly grateful for Ms. Maria's negotiation and legal skills which quickly concluded this matter. It could have easily been a long expensive court battle. I plan to refer her to anyone with a similar situation.

Edit: 1/24/21 The work described below has since been completed and was done free of charge. Ms Padgett contacted me, apologizing and explaining the difficulties faced by businesses during these pandemic times. I certainly understand that times are challenging and would understand about delays in ...work. I still find it problematic, however, to have no communication about such delays and to be unreachable for over 2 months. I would hope that such issues would not occur in the absence of the pandemic, but it is unclear to me if communication practices within the firm have substantially changed at this time. That being said, Ms. Padgett was prompt and efficient in handling our request once she did respond. ------------------------------------ (previous 1 star review) My experience with this law firm has been horrible. We've been trying to get our deed transferred into a living trust that they helped us create since October (it is now early January). It still isn't done. We reached out repeatedly through the months of November and December after not hearing anything and, every time we reached out (at least at first) we would get a promise that the work would be finished by the end of the week. This never materialized and we would never hear anything back. Now I've been trying for weeks to get a hold of anyone (multiple email addresses and phone numbers). We've haven't been able to get a hold of anyone who can even talk to us about the status of our case. The people answering the phone lines don't have direct lines to anyone handling cases and can only leave messages that are never returned. Emails are never answered and I'm starting to seriously wonder if anyone is actually working at this firm. I do not intend to do business here ever again and I would suggest you avoid them as well.

I paid Ms. Padgett to get full custody of my child once I paid her she was MIA. I emailed her about what the next steps were and I didnt her back from her for 17 days. In that time I called and emailed more and then when I emailed regarding a refund they finally got back to me the day after saying th...at they are 90 percent done with the case however I only had one intro consultation with Ms. Padgett so there's no way they are 90 % done. So out of the 1500 I paid they said Id get 500 which was completely wrong. I have never seen anything from the case, no paperwork or case number. When I confronted her and showed her screenshots of my attempts she just said what I had said to her was inaccurate. Don't hire this lawyer!