Law Ofc Karen Heller Berdy

It took me over a year to write this review. I have actually never written a bad review about anyone or any business. I do feel, however, that if I can spare someone from wasting the money that I wasted, it will be worth it. I used the collaborative process for my divorce and was represented by Karen Berdy. My ex husband and I had agreed on everything except how to split a business and spousal support numbers (using TWO HOURS of mediation) prior to starting the collaborative process, but we needed a little extra help finalizing and didn't want to go through the court system. We had so many wasted appointments in this collaborative process. SO MANY appointments when literally nothing was accomplished except the 7 (YES SEVEN) professionals in the room were paid a lot of money. There were prep appointments, prep time, there was time for each "specialist" and "coach", there was time billed for the attorneys to talk to each other and EACH SPECIALIST for hours, there was time that the "coaches" had to meet with us. It was the biggest racket and the biggest waste of time. Custody was never an issue. After my ex and I had each spent over $60k, there were STILL no attempts to talk numbers, every appointment was just fluff. We decided to communicate on our own and came up with what we thought would be fair. Karen just typed it up and filed it. Now, I don't want to share any more about my personal situation, but I was not well represented or informed about the final agreement that we came up with. It continues to come back to haunt me years later. My friends are constantly asking me if I actually had an attorney represent me and why didn't my attorney tell me these things that keep coming up. So... save yourself. I think the entire collaborative process is a racket, but if you are going to use it, look elsewhere.