Barnholtz & Kugler - Valencia, California

Chrisa C.

It's a very frustrating, stressful and devastating process. Unfortunately I could only give one star to Heidi for my experiences with her on the following aspects:

1. We paid her $7500 for preparing the documents and drafting a settlement agreement. We were not able to reach to an settlement which is understandable. However, I would like to get a revisable version on the settlement agreement draft which we have already paid her work for so that my attorney doesn't have to start from scratch, she refused and claimed it's her product. If this request is against her interest, I understand. But I'm not her opposing party and we have already paid with her hourly rate then we own whatever product she produced in the interim. Thus this is unacceptable to me.

2. She has a very slow turnaround time and is very difficult to access. It took her almost 2 months to draft the settlement agreement. We then requested a video call or phone call with her as soon as possible to move forward and the availability she gave is almost 3 weeks later. While I understand she also serves other clients, needs to take time to be thorough on the settlement agreement, has her own life outside work, etc., I do wish she could move with more urgency and better accommodate clients' needs. During the divorce process, each party is very emotional and might change his mind all of a sudden so time is the essence. This is exactly what happened to my case where my husband changed his mind for the agreed terms while we were waiting for her settlement draft and then changed his mind to mediate again when we need to wait another 3 weeks to talk to her.

After several months of being extremely mentally and physically exhausted and drained, we were not able to reach an agreement working with Heidi. It's going to another time consuming process in which our paid settlement agreement could have been of great help to speed up but Heidi declined to give us the doc. It's unfortunate that both of our attorneys need to start the case from scratch and we are going to suffer a lot mentally until the case is finalized.

Charles H.

This firm is fantastic! I came to them at a bad time for me mentally and physically. They took care of everything! They made it very easy, Asking
simple questions, and determining what I wanted. Then they made it happen! Even got my retainer fee back. Outcome was better than I ever imagined. I highly recommend Barnholtz and Kugler. ✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️✴️

scott P.

Brad was recommended to me by my accountant , and he turned out to be god sent . He is extremely methodical , professional and a master in the courtroom .
My stress level went way down after he got involved , and I contribute my favorable outcome 100% to Brad’s involvement