Lutz & Associates, P.S.

I retained lutz and associates after leaving another sub par firm. I originally spoke with Mr Lutz himself and he handles my case for about a month before handing it off to an associate attorney. My case involved establishing parentage and temp orders for a custody case. The other party was pro se for months and I was somehow getting railroaded in court while being represented. It took 6 months to get a temp order and cost over 25k. Lots and lots and lots of smaller trust deposits. I was originally quoted 7-9k to gain temp orders. It was triple that. After a disappointing hand down of temp orders from the court, my attorney suggested we do a revision hearing and quoted 4k with travel expenses included. My attorney blew threw 4k+ preparing for revision, failed to confirm the hearing, the hearing got pushed out. Once the hearing got pushed out, my attorney requested another 5k to finish the hearing and submitted an intent to withdraw with the court. My attorney withdrew 4 days before the revision hearing, after 6 months and tens of thousands of dollars. Throughout the entire case, Lutz and associates failed to confirm hearings 3 separate times, including for their own revision hearing!!! They also gave me the wrong time for a court hearing, one in which I flew into WA for from CA. I arrived to the hearing and got told it was in the morning! Bouncing between paralegals, an entitled staff of nincompoops, not submitting evidence I was providing, agreeing to a child support plan in a private zoom meeting with opponents attorney and not consulting me, he didnt even make sure the court adopted the correct financial statements. Yes, because of this firm, I pay child support based on an income I have never even made! Terrible diligence. One thing Ive learned is that Firms absolutely suck. Too many moving parts, too many people in and out, and not a lot of accountability. Lutz is very make money driven, not family driven or morally driven or even ethnically driven. If you sign with them just be aware that the initial trust deposit will be at least doubled if not tripled and they will do it in a very subtle, spread out way, so you dont realize how much youre actually spending. 5k here, 2500 here, 3500 there, another 4k should do it, we need another 6k. Yeah, its never ending here. My opponents attorney is far better and I could not regret my time with Lutz and associates more. Just fing run from this place. They only exist to drain you and your valuable resources.
Mar 17th, 2024

I feel fortunate literally every day of my life for the past two years that Andrew Voelker has been my attorney. Andrew handled my complicated divorce that included a protection order, extreme property damage to the home, and all while the ex was in the process of being criminally prosecuted (found guilty) and relentlessly pursuing vindictive measures against me, to state my case in the simplest terms. Besides having a great personality that is easy to get along and work with, Andrew is dedicated, thorough, available and responsive, compassionate and does an absolute outstanding job. He has knocked it out of the park, as far as Im concerned, with his knowledge and expertise in the subject matters required for my case. When/if unsure of something, he has tapped on his extensive resource bank and been successful at resolving newly learned issues as well, seemingly handling them with ease. He is a true professional, and an asset to his field. I couldn't recommend him more highly. To respond to a couple of the reviews on here - yes, the office in general has experienced turnover with paralegals, but I never found that to be an issue, each time was seamless. I also find that has been the case in the work world in general since COVID...I don't know anything about any of the other attorneys at Lutz, I just thank my lucky stars every day that I got Andrew.
Mar 15th, 2024

Terrible experience. Gave them the exact terminology of what needed to be in the will. Never put it in the will. Then told me it was all completed. Didnt do anything I asked for and when asked them if they could add my dads request, they told me to not contact them again. Poor service. Will be hiring another attorney to address these issues
Feb 5th, 2024

Contacted this office inquiring about filing out 1 piece of paper to submit to the court, a motion to convert a legal seperation order to a final divorce order. Was told by a rude person named April there was a $200 consult fee. I ask twice if they could guide me through the process in the 30 minute consult. She would not give me a straight answer and told me they charge $1000 to do this. When I told her I thought that was an exorbitant amount to file 1 piece of paper, she said ok goodbye and hung up on me. Zero stars. Rude and unhelpful. I got the info I needed from an online legal site for $50.
Feb 1st, 2024

This attorney was ineffective and made mistakes that were very costly in my divorce filing. His office turnover is frequent, and lack of communication and basic note keeping is all by design to keep billing you, and holding your case from moving forward. Do not hire this office. David Lutz cares more about his SEO/google rating and double billing you than actual representation.
Dec 5th, 2023