Law Offices of Jeffery M. Leving, Ltd.

My wife filed for divorce in August of 2021, I searched around and found the "Dad's Rights Lawyer" and bought into the hype, Paid their huge retainer and waited for the divorce to start. Fast forward a year and a half, They advised me to constantly compromise on everything and never seemed willing to actually go to bat for me, just always advised me to settle to avoid court costs. My wife and her lawyer apparently had a strategy of just dragging their feet on everything as much as possible and allow my lawyers to continue running up my bill, which they did, to the tune of anywhere between $3000-$8000 a month. Within a year and a half I had already paid these people over $35,000 and still owed $35,000 more for doing not much but sending emails telling me to agree with my my ex-wife wanted. I'd go weeks or even a month at a time with no update other than the monthly bill, and if you called them to ask what's going on they'd charge you $250 bucks for that 5 minute phone call. I made my $1500 a month payment on time every month as was agreed upon between me and their financial department when out of the blue they called me and said I owed to much and they would be filing a motion to withdraw. Due to the compromises they basically shoehorned me into (including paying my ex-wife's lawyer fees somehow) I was no longer making enough money to continue paying their insane bills. So here I am a year and a half later, with this divorce basically at 99% completed (by me compromising at every turn at thier insistence) and I now have to finish it representing myself anyway. And to top it off the best they could manage to negotiate was me getting my kids every for Spring Break every other year, 1 week at Christmas, and for about half of the Summer. Stay away from this firm, they don't care about you, they don't care about your kids, they talk a good game and then allow you to be screwed over and over by the opposition all the while racking up a huge bill they know you cant afford to pay, then they drop you like a bad habit right before the finish line.