Moore, Schulman & Moore, APC - San Diego, CA

To say that I am disgusted with the actions of my attorney Julie Westerman would be an understatement. Please keep in mind that this has nothing to do with the fact that I lost my case trying to protect my son from a verbal and physically abusive alcoholic. The reason I am so upset and frustrated is because Julie did not do her job. In addition to the response time being extremely slow if at all. I spent a lot of time writing my initial declaration along with a follow up to my ex's statement. In great detail, explaining that my son was scared of this person and was upset. Essentially, I was asking for one of two things. I was asking that my exes boyfriend not be in my son's presence during her custody time or I was asking for more time to minimize my son's exposure to this toxic man. The whole entire purpose of going to court was this material fact. The week before the case Julie and I had a conversation. And during that conversation, it sounded like she was in her car doing two or three other things, and not really paying attention to the conversation because the thing she was talking about did not make sense. I was not asking for more custody for the sake of just having more custody. And I said that to Julie. I said this Has to do with this guy being verbally abusive to my son, and it scares him and his mother. So I re-emphasize everything and I thought we were on the same page. On the day of our court case she showed up late. And while she was talking to opposing counsel, I was able to listen and she was talking about what her husband likes to drink when they go out. And I felt that that kind of conversation before we walked into court was completely improper because it had nothing to do with what was currently going on. And because of that conversation with opposing counsel, I had no time to speak to my attorney before we even walked in the court. Then, when we got to ?the courtroom, my attorney completely went off script, and made no mention of the man that was verbally abusing my son, and turned the whole thing into me, just wanting to have more time. And when opposing counsel was telling the judge that there's no evidence of any violence in their house, I was writing on a piece of paper, telling my attorney that she just contradicted what family court services had written after interviewing my son. And she ?p?ushed the piece of paper back to me, and made no mention of what FCS ?s?aid. Please understand that this has nothing to do with me losing. This Has to do with Julie Westerman not doing any research, not listening to me, and just doing what she felt which again does not make any sense because the whole reason we were doing this was to try to remove my ex?'?s boyfriend from being around my son. When I left court, that day, I felt sick, I felt frustrated, I felt upset, and worst of all I felt betrayed! My attorney literally did nothing! She stuttered and stammered her way through the statement she made to the judge, while her hands were shaking, and made no reference to any portion of my declaration or response that I took so long to write. To me, this is literally a bad dream! That I spent all this money for her to just Sit there (that's right, she didn't even stand for the judge!) and make a nonsensical argument as to why I was looking for more custody to have the judge. Just say we're gonna keep everything the way it is. I have documented this information to the California Bar as a formal complaint against Julie Westerman from malpractice in my case. And I would encourage anybody else to do the same. I hate having to do this, but the person I I was paying to protect me, and my son betrayed me, and I'm not gonna deal with it. And I'm gonna make sure everybody knows exactly the type of attorney. She is one that does not care because clearly her personal life is more important than her clients.

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