Waits Family Law, LLC in Blue Springs

Lindsey and her staff are the absolute best! Dealing with so many clients during their most emotionally and financially draining time cannot be easy, (at all!) and they make the process as smooth as possible. Lindsey truly takes the time and recalls details and conversations like no other. I feel she truly had my child’s best interest in mind, always. Kathy, LeAnne and Amy always took the time to go over any questions I had and talked me off the ledge many times during such difficult lengthy proceedings. I would highly recommend Lindsey and her team to anyone!

Lindsey and her staff were incredibly helpful! They supported me every step of the way during a difficult process. Lindsey was able to guide us through mediation and helped make the divorce process go a smoothly as possible. I would highly recommend Waits Family Law to anyone in need of these services.

This law team is unbelievably invested in their clients on all accounts. As a female I felt very confident with their guidance through such an emotional journey. They explained things to me anytime had a questions and I knew and trusted they always had my future and my children's futures best interest at the forefront of their efforts and work. Highly professional on every level and the follow up after such a life changing event is unmatched. You want Lindsey and her team on your side. If you can get her to represent you feel fortunate. She and her team go above and beyond.

Lindsey and her staff were very helpful. What a difficult challenge to walk well with people during one of life's most difficult adversities. My case had some unique issues and I appreciate the great detail, excellence and hard work the Waits team put in to my case. I would recommend this team to those who have the unfortunate need to hire them.

Used Lindsey twice for custody. Won primary custody in 2019 and then sole custody in 2023. Hands down best attorney for someone that may not know how the courts work. Amy and Leanne are helpful on questions. And appreciate the team. I refer just about anyone straight to them.

When I came to Lindsey I’d been to six different lawyers and she was the only one that charged to have a consultation but man when I was done with my hour consultation I was happy to pay the 2500 to start the divorce and when it was all over she paid her own legal fees getting me way more than I even expected and 50/50 with my kids

I’m really sad I didn’t trust my gut. I know Lindsay’s family personally and knew she went to my hs so I wanted to support her. Our first $250-350 (I dont remember) consult she talked the entire time about her cousins and where they’re living now and some of her very private info from other cases. I felt a little rude having to interrupt as I nervously watched my one hour timer tick down. I kept saying, “I’m so sorry but I have so many questions I need to ask on this call, can I get to these?” Then she’d go down another rabbit hole of personal stories. We didn’t even make it to discussing my kids, and that was the highest priority and with five minutes left she said, “I’m So sorry we didn’t even get to talk about your kids. We’ll have to do this again on another meeting.” (In my head, I’m thinking, do I have to pay for that meeting because I sent a list of questions prior to this first one and we didn’t even discuss my situation). We never had that meeting. I trusted her just because I knew her family. Lots of my friends said not to hire her for those reasons and they didn’t have a good feeling. When you are not only cheated on, and had money taken by your partner, who is experiencing the lowest of his life, on top of multiple deaths in the family, new foster children involved, and so many hard things to navigate, I would think they (Lindsay and her staff) would be so much more empathetic and kind working with clients. Her paralegal Kathy treated me like I was stupid every time she talk to me. I don’t live in the legal world so I don’t even know what a lot of things mean. Anytime I asked a Q she talked down to me. I have so much email proof of me getting back to them just a day later and then they would hound me a week later saying they didn’t receive anything from me. I literally have proof every single time and would forward that to her but Lyndsey would respond with, “ Quit trying to prove things and move on.” Divorcing is like taking on a full to a part-time job in paperwork. Not only was I emotionally stressed, I was trying to wrap my head around all the 1000 of things I had to take off work for to handle this divorce. I asked her if she could just take the #s I had given her for assets and debts and tell me even what was an inappropriate number to try and negotiate with my ex and they continue to say I’m trying to get to step 9 when we are on step 1. Her paralegal wouldn’t help at all. When she would ask me questions about every penny, even down to how much my cleats cost for my kids baseball season, she talked to me in such a rude way as if I was lying. I called their secretary & asked her if there was another paralegal in the office I could work with bc I felt like I was being a little interrogated as if I was talking to my exes lawyer, and she said, “hang on.” Lindsay then picked up the phone and proceeded to cuss me out and tell me how dare I say anyone in her office is unkind or talking down to me. She literally said she was “a pitbull, and could turn on me in a heartbeat, and I should highly consider withdrawing her as her attorney” and hung up. I had her on speaker phone with a friend nearby and our jaws hit the floor. I paid her $3500 to send in paperwork that’s nice. But they were never kind, and not helpful. I got a mediator friend to help with the assets and debts numbers bc really it should be that simple, and he calculated the numbers on who should owe who in about 10 minutes. Which led us to resolving the issue without an attorney. After hiring multiple attorneys between foster care/adoption and now divorce, I’ve realized that lawyers are only there to file paperwork (all of which you can do on your own and save your money). They aren’t there to give advice or guidance. The absolute most informative person who was so super sweet during this process was her secretary who gave me more emotional and legal insight than I received the entire year and after two terrible lawyers. Beware of Kathy & Lindsay.. are very mean. Every lawyer I spoke to after said Lindsay is very mean in court also.

Paid lindsey waits $3,200 in 2016 just for her to NOT SHOW UP FOR COURT 3 TIMES!!! Sent her associate Mr witteman, who knew nothing about my case. At the 3rd hearing i was cornered into making a decision or threatened to pay my ex's court costs. It was a complete disaster! I've waited 7 years to write this review because I didn't want to say anything out of anger. I still feel the same way about this "attorney". Please DO NOT waste your time or money for legal representation that doesn't even take the time to show up for your important court date!

Lindsey waits paralegal was absolutely rude and absurd and told my fiancé to have the CHILD ask the MOTHER if he could “have an extra day” that’s putting the kid right in the middle of something the child doesn’t need to be in between 2 parents. She also treated us as if we’re dumb. She said “we’ll if your daughters failing classes you should talk to the school, you don’t have to talk to the mother” like as if we don’t know we can talk to the counselor. We asked her what’s our chance look like getting.50:50 since we already have 40 and the mom has 60. She literally asked why would we want 50/50 if we already have her 40 percent of the time. Plenty more where that came from. Unprofessional and very unkind talks to you as if your stupid.

I hired this lawyer because I heard great reviews. Spent 17k to get absolutely nowhere in my custody battle. Ended up having to provide my own parenting agreement which I had from a previous custody battle because no headway was made in over a year. Do not hire this lawyer. You will spend all of your money for nothing. Very disappointed!