Gary Whitehead & Associates, Inc.

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I went to Gary Whitehead for a divorce. My wife and I were working together and had been quoted $ 2,500.00 for an uncontested divorce from a great attorney, but the cost was too much. Mr. W carefully explained the process and because we three worked together the cost was less than a $ 1,000.00 and it was all done within 6 months.



We also had Gary write up two new living trusts for our real estate holdings and this also was done for less than a $ 1,000.00 each and done in a few days. The office is very nice and the staff quite professional. I am very pleased and have referred my parents to this office.

We hired Gary Whitehead, a Palm Springs paralegal, to mediate our divorce proceedings. At each stage we believe he acted unprofessionally and incompetently, and ultimately abandoned us to conduct the work on our own. As a result he caused us great grief and frustration, and our divorce to take 6 months longer than it should have. As we agreed on everything up front, it should have been the easiest of settlements, since we gave him all the data he needed for the forms. All he had to do was fill in the blanks and submit them to the Court!



What became standard operating procedure was that he would not return calls unless he felt like it, he would tell us he sent documents when he hadn't, and blamed his mistakes on the court, the law, or on us! If we didn't bring things to his attention, e.g., like when the Default Agreement was due, he would have done nothing. So Gary tells me, "I don't like you, you're always attacking me." I told him, "You don't have to like me. I don't think it's unrealistic to expect that you do the job that we paid you $1,150 to do and that you know the law and the schedule of your client's cases!!"



When it came time for the divorce to become final my ex calls him to find out his estimate of the actual date. When he doesn't return her umpteenth call she contacted the Family Court. They told her they'd scheduled a Court date for us because he never filed a Judgment!



When I took the documents to Family Court (which Gary should have submitted) I received a big shock; he had not included the Judgment in the package!!! When we called him to complain, he never returned either of our calls. So I spent the next four weeks preparing and re-preparing the entire Judgment package myself, on the Court's website, with the help of a paralegal and the law clerks in Family Court. It was refused three times before I could even submit it and rejected and returned to me once before it was finally approved by a Family Court Judge!!!…

I needed a revocable living trust because of the real estate I owned and was afraid of probate. After calling three attorneys and meeting with one who quoted me $ 2,500.00, I called four paralegal services including Gary Whitehead. two of the paralegal services never returned my call and the one I spoke with told me he was too busy. Mr. Whitehead scheduled an appointment and it was free too. He carefully explained the process and introduced me to the attorney who supervised this document. They prepared the entire package for $ 950.00 including the new deeds. I am thrilled and have referred my Mother and Aunt to this office as well. Everything was timely and professionally done.