Hartley & McGehee: A Limited Liability Law Partnership

although they represent my husband in our divorce and I am Pro Se. They seem to be helpful and professional altogether good people.
Jan 15th, 2023

Aug 21st, 2021

Steve Hartley is smart, experienced, and thorough in times of intensely difficult custody issues. He was very good at explaining every single step along the way, which was really helpful. Also, this whole firm responded very quickly and compassionately to every issue that I had. I cannot say enough good things about how Mr. Hartley and this entire team helped me with solid and accurate advice. Our family has now healed, and I am forever grateful.
Apr 12th, 2020

I cannot recommend working with Hartley & McGehee on any legal case. From my experience, they were unresponsive, slow, and expensive. After a $250 consultation on 2022-02-14 regarding divorce, I was left with a positive impression of Hartley & McGehee. On 2022-02-22, I hired Hartley & McGehee as my legal representation in seeking a divorce. My case was primarily handled by Elsa McGehee, Kalani Kim, and Alyssa Lei. 164 days and $5,441.77* in fees later, I terminated the services of Hartley & McGehee on 2022-08-05. Within this timeframe, the great accomplishments of Hartley & McGehee were limited to (1) filing the Complaint for Divorce and related documents with the court, (2) serving my spouse with the case paperwork, and (3) proposing a Divorce Decree which was ignored by the defendant. After terminating their services, Hartley & McGehee waited until 2022-08-30 to file their motion to withdraw, squandering another 25 days of my case. Not only did they waste more of my time, but Hartley & McGehee continued billing me after terminating their services, sending an invoice which included an additional $714.44* in fees from 2022-08-09 to 2022-08-25. Here are a few other highlights from my experience with Hartley & McGehee: They provided me with misinformed guidance on the sponsors contract of USCIS Form I-864, even after discussing the matter with their immigration law colleague. The key piece of misinformation they provided is that the immigrants income (including alimony payments) would not reduce the financial obligations of the contract, and they insisted that their guidance was correct even after I cited multiple legal cases to the contrary. When refunding the remainder of my deposit / trust account, they mailed the check to an old address in the wrong state despite having been provided with my latest address. Elsa McGehee admitted plainly in an apology to me on 2022-08-10 that they had been short-staffed. They failed to send me all relevant documents for my case, such as email communications with their immigration law colleague, when I requested them upon terminating their services. I needed to pry further with more specific requests, and I am still not certain if I have everything. They cautioned against getting a restraining order against my abusive spouse because it may make our communication with her a bit tricky and left me to handle that on [my] own. In an unrecorded call, they also downplayed the severity of my spouses abuse and harassment since it was no longer physical. However, my spouse has continued harassing me with _thousands_ of messages and numerous voicemails using _hundreds_ of spoofed phone numbers to circumvent attempts to block communication. I requested multiple times that we proceed with advancing the divorce in court in order to have a hearing and a resolution because the defendant was not being responsive to our proposed resolution. These requests were ignored, which was the primary cause for this case being dragged out for so long. On 2022-03-03, near the beginning of the case, I emailed a list of 16 direct questions regarding the case and how to complete the Income & Expense and Asset & Debt forms. Alyssa Lei responded only to questions #4 and #12, ignoring the rest. * This is a sum of the subtotals, not including the 4.712% tax or the 10% discount for early payment.
Nov 18th, 2022

Attorney Steve Hartley, Attorney Elena Bryant and Hartley & McGehee's supporting office staff members: Carlee-Jean Corcoran, Kalani Kim and Harold Ross were an amazing group of professionals to work alongside while helping my nephew gain custody of his son! They truly value their clients and it shows because they listened our needs, our opinions, our points of view and would go above and beyond to make us feel comfortable and at ease not just during the consultation but throughout our entire dealings with Hartley & McGehee from the beginning through until today months after my nephew's case has been settle!From the beginning Steve and his entire staff were extremely empathetic, responsive, attentive, communicated next steps and provided sound advice!I truly and wholeheartedly recommend anyone that requires an attorney versed in Family Law to look no further than Hartley & McGehee, they are the best there is here in the State of Hawai'i!Thank you Steve, Elena, Carlee-Jean, Kalani and Harold for not only the positive turnout of my nephews custody case but for making this entire process effortless and stress-free for both my Aunt and I!All of you deserve my infamous 5-shaka status!
Apr 30th, 2020