Reviews

Lorraine Eckard was my divorce lawyer several years ago. Before I retained her, she presented herself as someone that was eager to help me and do everything she could for me as I was the wife who was lied to, cheated on and really the only dependable parent to our children. She even said that she hoped we would be good friends afterwards. A few months after retaining her, I began to question her actions. She discussed openly one of her other cases (a paternity case and even said her client's name in front of me which I have never disclosed to anyone) over the telephone to the judge's assistant/secretary? during my appointment with her. She told me to gather letters/notes that I had received from my now ex-husband's mistress which she NEVER used and never gave back to me, and she also started giving ME duties such as people to call for information on and pertaining to my case which after paying her $3,000.00 I would think that would come under her duties as my attorney. Getting closer and closer to the court date, this attorney would openly criticize me to the point that is caused me VERY MUCH distress. (Upon hearing about these things, my sister one day said to me, "Whose attorney is she... yours or HIS?"). She never fought for me and instead, just accepted whatever demands they made. I felt completely defeated. And even when I started to question her in my mind, I felt it was too late to turn back. REMEMBER, I DID NOTHING WRONG -- i was the wife who was lied to, cheated on and all the while stayed in my home with my children to take care of them as a mother should and, I as a person, would have it no other way. She prepared me in NO way for the court proceedings -- NOT AT ALL. She told me that we wouldn't have to be right in the courtroom, that we could stay in a room off of the courtroom and answer questions there. Another lie. That was not true. I asked her the day of the hearing what I needed to do/say. She answered me in these exact words, "Just say yes to everything". When we left the courtroom she told me she still owed me some money back. I never received it. Not another word was said about it. And I just didn't want to see her ever again.