I hired this firm to respond to my ex-wife's request to increase child support. Having hired several attorneys for various reasons over the years, I can say that these are far and above the worse I have seen!
They do NOT respond to calls, they basically had me write my own order to show cause then retype it and charge me a lot of money. They kept canceling my court hearings. They would have their office clerk take my calls and even talk to other attorneys instead of themselves.
The final straw was when I had a telephonic hearing scheduled with the district attorney as they were going to levy all my bank accounts. Not only was I NOT behind in payments, I had a $5000 credit and all the cancelled checks to prove it. The county sent me a position statement prior to the hearing stating they had tried several times to contact my attorney to resolve the matter to no avail. I myself called their firm no less then 10 times in the days leading up to the hearing. I never received a call back. I had to cancel the hearing because I was unsure as how to proceed. After the hearing date William Acosta finally called and said "I didn't call you because your phone does not accept blocked calls" (a simple matter for him to remedy.)
Because the hearing was postponed the county levied all my accounts. I immediately fired Acosta and stated I wanted an accounting of my charges and a refund on my retainer. They refused both. Finally they agreed to send me $1000 out of the more then $4000 I had paid them. They still refused to show me any accounting.in fact William Acosta stated: I owed them more money for all the calls they had made on my behalf. I was told that if I wanted to see the charges I would have to sue them and request them in discovery.
I should add that when I hired a new attorney we immediately requested an ex-parte hearing to stop the banks from sending the money as they were holding it for ten days from the levy date.
At the hearing the county agreed to stop the levy and notified the banks. However the banks received the stop ONE day too late as the money had been released. At this time I am fighting for the return of my money from the state.
All this could have been avoided if my attorneys had done what I paid them to do. I WILL be filing a complaint with the state bar to recover my retainer and filing suit against these "attorneys"
I HIGHLY recommend NOT using this firm.
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