Burd and Carper Attorneys at Law

I wouldn't suggest using Mary Burd's services. Not only did she nickle and dime me but she called me (her client) by the other party's girlfriends name while questioning the other party. She showed up late to multiple hearings when she told me to show up early to discuss things. Once her excuse was she turned off her alarm thinking it was 30 minutes later. The only reason I won my case was because I had all the receipts from the last 6 years prior to court. She also tried to get me to settle in mediation because he wouldn't budge. Telling me it's only "this many more" days a year. In the end I got exactly what I offered them in the first place.

Please don’t go there she not focused on your case, she’s focused money

Don’t go to Natasha. She will make whatever situation you’re in worse.

I was with them for representation in my divorce case. I spent about 15k to have her paralegal tell me that my abusive situation and what happened to me wasn’t going to matter to the court. I was discouraged from getting a protection order that was imminent and should have been in place. I have been subjected to more abuse for two years until yesterday. I have been representing myself with the evidence I had provided fully for carper. I now have a permanent protection order obtained on even less than what had been currently happening.

My children’s needs were completely overlooked and I felt like our case was just a bill and nothing more.

There was no investment into the case beyond taking information and telling me nothing that happened to me mattered.

I was gaslit by Natasha to the point where she compared my discomfort with an abuser to leaving her autistic son with her husband alone, saying” I wouldn’t be comfortable leaving him with our son without me” as if the separation was a simple case of conflict.

I have no idea why I would pay the hourly rate I did to hear about her personal life in comparison to downplay my abuse and that of my children.

She told me that my marriage would be seen as a toxic relationship and that did not mean toxic parenting. ( I had proof of abandonment, reckless endangerment, intimidation, threats, and more) She told me every case sounds like this, she generalized my concerns, downplayed everything I brought up while it was happening. She would sound sincere while listening and yet there was nothing that followed.

I would like to clarify after speaking with the judge on our case in court that, they in fact, DO CARE. The evidence I had should have been utilized and taken seriously.

I was also told that even if I signed the divorce decree I could fight for the children.

That decree has been weaponized against me in court stating I was okay with what was agreed, when in reality I felt backed into a corner I took on 20k of debt that wasn’t mine to get my ex to sign papers and I lived fearfully until yesterday.

We should have mattered especially when they had no issue cashing in on $15000

I had clear documentation of 5 years tabbed and highlighted and laid out.

I personally went thru over 3000 pages of texts and categorized everything establishing the pattern and the ongoing actions that were happening. I was forced to move from my home for my safety and I was hopeful and believed that I had an attorney that took my case because they were capable of giving us the representation we deserved.

I had heard they were good and I wish more than anything they would have not agreed to take the case, nor the money, when there was never real representation just a string of the court doesn’t care and if this drags out it’s hard on kids.

I will say this, I have watched helplessly as my children have suffered in ways I did all because I was minimized to a participant in a toxic relationship vs a victim in an abusive one.

After my horrendous personal experience, I would not go to them to represent my dog let alone anyone in a vulnerable position.