Reviews

Vivian Howell is absolutely amazing! She is personable, strong, extremely knowledgeable and works in the best interest of the children. She knows exactly what she’s doing., and is extremely available for her clients! Highly recommend her! 🙏🏽 thanks for making my kids happier than ever!! You are a blessing

I have had a professional relationship with attorney Shelley Kester for many years. She has shown time and again, her and her firm strive to do the absolute best for their clients. I know her team has delivered excellent results in extraordinarily difficult circumstances. Probably the best thing is they show compasion for their clients and help them while they are going through a divorce which is a challenging time in their lives.

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I can't recommend this attorney highly enough! From the moment I reached out, the response was incredibly fast. Not only was the communication clear and concise, but also very friendly, which made the whole process so much easier to navigate. If you're looking for someone reliable and effective to handle your divorce, this is the attorney to go to. Truly a standout in the field—would recommend to anyone!

If you need a bulldog that won’t let you down! She is amazing

I don't know how to start except to say it started at HELLO. Cortney was AMAZING!!! She was understanding and helpful and most knowledgeable of the direction that needed to be taken. She calmed my nerves when she stated You have the RIGHT person for the case!!! She spoke with my Dad who had questions and she quickly said Let me have him talk to Shelly. I AM BLOWN AWAY at the communication with Shelly Kester and her team. Cortney, YOU are AMAZING!! Thank you Shelly Kester for being there in my time of need!!!

I will forever be grateful to Shelley for taking on my unbelievably skewed EDRO in August 2015. Since my surreal judgment of divorce in 2009...a result of ex-family ties with the in Emmet County Court, I desperately sought counsel from several attorney consultations throughout Michigan without success. Thankfully Shelley acccepted my journey for justice with positivity and tenacity, along with Ryan Hulst ending in December 2019 with an agreeable outcome. I wish I could turn back time, have Shelley as my initial counsel for a "collaborative divorce", rather than the experience I endured. I highly recommend Wilson-Kester for a fair, outstanding, and compassionate experience!

You can do no better than with Shelley Kester. She was incredibly diligent, detailed, and her examination and cross examination was simply spot on. She was able to uncover the falsehoods and bring to light the truths. All of my ex-wife's "Witnesses" essentially ended up being my witnesses and strengthened my case. This was all due to the incredible thoroughness of Ms. Kester and the way she builds her case to present to the Judge or Referee. Meticulous & Textbook. None of the witnesses could know where any line of questioning was going and so they all ended up being unprepared for what they were supposed to say and ended up speaking the truth about who I am as a dad. Each witness shoring up my position and revealing the twisting and manipulation of reality that had been going on while old friends and family were turned into people who now seemed to dislike me. Above everything, Shelley Kester is about getting down to the truth. Backround: Our tale of family destruction is not new. It was unilateral and was a surprise to everyone not know as my ex-wife. In the end people deserve to be happy in life and I don't find fault with her wanting a new start. But such new starts are better when there is some level of discussion and things are less abrupt. Joint planning would have been better. Our court case however is a very challenging one and maybe a bit novel. My ex-wife and I had a signed and notarized agreement which allowed the kids(3) to decide where they wished to live. Our kids have always had a lot of autonomy and their own agency. Everything worked well throughout the first year after the divorce, but all of my kids were deciding to spend more time with me. I had always been the primary caretake since they were infants, and with my ex-wife primarily in charge post divorce, they simply were missing the day-to-day parenting I have always provided. My ex-wife has always had an active life outside the home and that worked well when we were together. However, while I was recovering from the abrupt one-sided dissolution of our family, I ended up moving back to my home state and my ex-wife ended up with the most custody of our kids. As time went on, my kids began to make choices about where they wished to live. My eldest child decided to move where I was. But when the second child decided to move as well and the third was contemplating spending more time at my house, my ex-wife decided to shut that down and got an interim court decision blocking my kids from coming to freely stay with me as had been the previous understanding. They ended up being sequestered at her house the majority of the time with simple visitation 3 times a year. That's not what any of them wanted and not part of our agreement. So the kids opinion really shifted much more after the lawsuit and initial decision by the court was entered. The kids felt trapped and stuck. Obviously, this began a year and 1/2 dispute as my ex-wife decided to drag things into the court rather than use the existing mechanism of arbitration provided by our signed agreement. Hell was unleashed unilaterally upon both sides of our family once again. And the lives of the kids became a purgatory of uncertainty and perpetual stress. Contrary to being a normal thing as my ex-wife framed the court case to our children, Court cases are a sign of gross dysfunction. Our case was incredibly destructive, hostile, and rampaged over both sides of our family mercilessly for a year and 1/2. I needed an amazing lawyer and an amazing team. I am incredibly lucky to have found Ms. Kester et. al. A competent legal team became like family for me. My case is extraordinarily different in the sense that 1) I am a man who is fighting the mother of my kids for them to have more right to see me. But what makes the extra difficult is that I also live in 2) an entirely different state. Yet even with such a normally heavy lift, we were able to prevail in the case. Truly, you can do no better to get at the truth and bring back balance in your family than by working with Ms. Kester and her team.

Fantastic team! Not only did they do a terrific job legally, but they were always very kind and supportive throughout a difficult period of time for me. Highly recommend.

Shelley is without a doubt a leader in her profession. Her attention to detail is incomparable and sensitivity to the situation at hand, outstanding. She is fierce yet compassionate. As a client, I felt safe as she guided me through many unknowns. She came highly recommended and I can say without a doubt I wouldn't have wanted anyone else standing up for me. If you're in need of a highly professional, experienced, empathetic attorney, look no further. Shelley and her team will be there for you every step of the way.

Shelley and her team were very skilled in helping me with various legal issues over the last 2 years. Recently, I needed a quick, short answer to a narrow legal questions and asked her to reply ASAP, if she could. Shelley just called me back within 10 minutes of my email and solved everything. Now, I'm sure, with her busy schedule. that she can't always call back that quickly. But, at least I know that when she can, she and her team will make the extra effort, as they always had for me. No more worries. Thank you,

I contacted Shelley a short time before my legal issues and even in a short amount of time she had me feeling more than confident about my situation and turned it turned out extremely well I couldn’t thank her more! She’s hard working and great at what she does.