My husband and I had the unfortunate luck of working with Hayley Graff for a case involving my husbands parenting agreement with his ex for his rights pertaining to my stepdaughter. The parenting agreement and subsequent case led by Hayley was so poorly done that we’ve had to hire a different lawyer to clean up her mess. She consistently talked us out of the directions we wanted to take to protect my stepdaughter, and as such we are now spending more than double what it should have cost us originally to fix the original parenting agreement. She was also often defensive when we brought up our goals regarding the case being different from hers (such as her outright laughing at my husband when he requested a guardian ad litem half way through our case) as well as incredibly dismissive of our concerns for our daughter’s life with her birth mother, which has now put our stepdaughter in danger as this case is still continuing despite Hayley’s “best efforts”. Throughout the duration of our eight months of using Hayley’s services, twice she went on vacation without giving me or my husband prior notice or instructions of what to do should we need emergency legal counsel, leaving us without any form of communication for over two weeks both times. During that time, the firm was incredibly difficult to get ahold of, and both Hayley and her paralegal consistently acted annoyed by myself or my husband contacting them via multiple emails after no responses, despite this being why we paid them a GENEROUS retainer and subsequent fees for. Overall, we found Hayley and everyone we came in contact with at this firm to be dismissive, unprofessional, and wholly disappointing. I would run FAR in the opposite direction before hiring them for anything related to family law, as you may end up paying a different attorney more to clean up the mess created by Hayley and this firm later.
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