Sunset Mediation - Milford, New Hampshire

Kate G.

I had the worst experience with this guy. He is overpriced, he’s a thief and only cares about taking your money. During my divorce, He charged more then double what my lawyer charged, and he’s not a lawyer, he's just a retired cop. He’s condescending and has a “holier than thou” type attitude. He is not favorable to women, he supported and repeatedly defended my ex, who is an addict, alcoholic and was abusive to me and the kids, yet he went above and beyond to defend him, to the point during his testimony the judge was openly less than impressed with him. Luckily the judge saw through him and my ex and the divorce still went favorable in my way. He originally sent an invoice with my balance and I paid monthly as agreed. A couple months ago I needed to get a new debit card due to a name change and forgot my card was attached to his bill. Two months goes by and I get ONE email stating I was behind and he threatened court if I didn’t fix it. When I received the email I immediately contacted him to rectify the situation. The same week he calls me regarding my ex and stated that he tried several attempts and means to get a hold of him as he was way behind on payments. I advised him my ex was in jail for something unrelated to me, but he went above and beyond to try and contact him, yet I got one email about my card not working and court threatened to me. During his testimony for my divorce he made up things that “I had done” to make me look bad and actually had to apologized in court stating “I’m not sure where I got that info, but I guess it’s not true”. Additionally he did a house visit with me and my kids. I have never had a drug or alcohol problem, never been arrested or been in any trouble what so ever with the law, highly respected at work and involved in my community, And half my family members are in law enforcement, yet he felt the need to observe me around my kids, and not my ex, who had repeatedly been in trouble with the law, drove drunk and high with my kids and was very abusive to our son, to the point the state doesn’t allow my ex any contact with our son. The judge even questioned why he didn’t observe my ex with our daughter. During his visit with me, he asked my daughter if she liked being with her dad and she stated “not really” she also told DCYF and a detective involved that she was scared of her father. Yet when we went to court Tom lied on the stand and said “the child stated she likes being with both parents”. During our recent interaction, When I asked him for a statement of total bill and what’s been paid, he didn’t have details and couldn’t provide anything and stated his office would figure it out. It took 3 emails to him to finally get a financial statement and what’s still owed. When Tom called looking for my new card info, that I already sent to his secretary, my new husband was next to me saying “don’t give your card info over the phone, find out the balance and get a statement” and Tom heard him and immediately got an attitude and said “I’m not going to be yelled at through the phone by someone else” when my husband had every right to question this transaction. I asked him why he didn’t call me the day my card was declined or email, and he said “well we tried several times” I told him he emailed once, two months later and I gave him the date and time. His response was “well I’m not going to go through every email I sent you” I said “you don’t have to, I searched your name and I’m telling you when you contacted me about this issue, and I immediately responded to fix the situation” he had no response after that. I had a colleague that was also coerced in to using him for her child custody, even though I told her absolutely do not use him, and she called me and had the same experience with him. He was favoring her ex, was rude to her and charged astronomical amounts of money for basically doing nothing. This man is a crook, he’s in the wrong line of work, has no idea what he’s doing. Do yourself a favor and find a different GAL. Please beware of this guy and find someone else.