Silicon Valley Law Offices

Evelyn is an excellent family law attorney. She’s professional, knowledgeable, and very responsive to all of my questions and concerns. She truly made a difficult situation much easier to navigate and advocated for my best interests. Highly recommend this office.

Michael Pascoe is an outstanding family law attorney. I have known him professionally for many years and have tremendous respect for the work he does as a family law attorney. As someone who works closely with divorcing couples myself, I understand how important it is to have a lawyer who combines strong legal judgment with empathy and professionalism. Michael brings exactly that balance to his practice.

He is thoughtful, highly knowledgeable, and deeply committed to helping his clients navigate difficult situations with clarity and dignity. When anyone in the Silicon Valley area asks me for a referral to a family law attorney, I always recommend Michael with complete confidence.

Attorney Evelyn and her team are wonderful. I always felt highly supported and well advocated for with Attorney Evelyn and her team. She always remained transparent about the difficult divorce process, detailed what options I had, and always maintained professionalism. I worked with them in 2019-2020 during my initial filing and required their support again this past year for follow-up issues. I cannot fully express how grateful I am to have had their support during those most trying times, but thank you.

Let's go over what Mrs. Pascoe claimed for my case:
1) 500 usd for Court filing fee
2) 500 for meeting 1
3) 500 for meeting 2
TOTAL: 1,500
Answer:
1) In California, when you hire a lawyer to represent you in a divorce case (or any family law proceeding), the process to inform the court of their representation is typically handled by filing a Substitution of Attorney form (Judicial Council Form MC-050). This form notifies the court that your new attorney is now representing you, often replacing self-representation (in pro per) or a prior attorney.

There is no court filing fee required for submitting the Substitution of Attorney form. This is a standard statewide rule for superior courts handling family law matters like divorce.

https://selfhelp.courts.ca.gov/substitution-attorney

2) We met for 5m just to sign 1 paper that he is now representing me. 500 usd for 5 min.

3) Next time we met was only to hand him a check and let him know that he is no longer needed. Handling of check was charged another 500 usd as considered as a meeting with the client (obviously).

While he may partially technically be right in terms of meetings only, think again if you like to have this kind of ethics follow you during your case and weather something like this should cost 1,500 USD.