Lynn C Tuttle LLC

I consulted with an independent attorney about my case. He asked who the Guardian Et Litem was. I replied: Lynn Tuttle. His response: "She is horrible. She picks a winner and loser. She isn't objective and just needs to retire." I sent my parent coach a copy of what Lynn included in her report relating to their conversation. My parent coach called and said "I am so sorry. My words have been taken out of context and manipulated. She completely misrepresented the situation. I am so angry." My words of caution about hiring Lynne: 1. Timing. She misses deadlines. She will say she has time for the case will take several months (almost 12 in my case) to complete it. 2. Errors. Her report contains material errors. Her response: I don't correct my report. 3. Billing. She will stop work and then tell you she needs more money to complete the work or issue the report. Fine - but why not ask before you stop work? 4. She has flawed logic. Her belief: If a X occurs and situation Y exists - then the only conclusion could be Z. She picks facts to support her conclusions. My sense is she believes everyone should parent in a manner that she parented her children. She is incredibly forgetful - not remembering conversations and facts and it shows in her report. My favorite part of her report is the recommendation relating to mother's day -- "Mother gets mother's day" - this was a male gay relationship. Her work is incredibly sloppy. I would have filed a complaint against her except I wanted my case resolved without incurring more fees. If you have the funds to fight - great. I would avoid this biased attorney.... Social workers are skilled in determining the best interest of the children. Lynn is a mother and attorney who prosecutes one of the parents based on her own views about parenthood.

The primary job of a GAL is to advocate for children and that is not what Lynn did when she quit my case 3/4 of the way through a month and a half before trial which delayed my trial by 7 months due to high conflict by my wife and her attorney. Since the start I have had the children 80% of the time and then 98% with my wife having supervised visits. Lynn had an overwhelming amount of information in our case which showed my wife had engaged in parental alienation, abuse of conflict, violating the restraining order, violating the parenting plan and the physiological evaluation that she ordered for us both which showed several issues about my wife and nothing negative about me. Lynn was at my home doing the home visit when I also had a visit from Child Protective Services due to my wife calling alleging abuse which was unfounded. She even stayed in contact with CPS and was given all the emails between CPS and my ex which only provided more evidence of my ex harassing CPS when they found no abuse and even praised me for my parenting.Lynn quitting my case in no way was in the best interest of my special needs children and has cost me an additional $60k in attorneys fees. It's amazing that there is no accountability for someone to do this to a family going through one of the most traumatic times in their life. She should retire immediately!

I had a pretty extreme case of Parental Alienation occur. To the point where my ex convinced ME to leave the family home (so our bad energy wouldn't affect our kids, I reasoned), and then completely shut me out of my kid's lives the second I moved out. I made him sign a contract saying if I moved down the street, I could return to my home any time to be with my children, and that my moving out would NOT effect custody. Well, I moved and he lied. He refused to let me see the boys, even though I was a stay at home mom, and their sole caretaker from birth until that point. He started lying and telling people he was their sole caretaker. My ex ended up hiring and paying the bill for a Parenting Evaluator (Lynn), and she concluded that the boys should stay with their father 90% of the time SIMPLY because "disrupting the status quo" would be detrimental to the boys. THAT was her conclusion. Nevermind the FACTS, and the clear patterns of emotional abuse and Parental Alienation that occurred. In what UNIVERSE does a stay at home mom with absolutely no parenting issues LOSE custody of her little boys? In Lynn Tuttle's World. Avoid her like the plague, people. Also, My ex paid her entire bill. I still don't know how much he paid her for her "conclusions"....

I have seen some very unethical law professionals, but Lynn Tuttle is the worst. She unethically engaged with one party, who immediately convinced her that the other party was the worst parent ever. The bias was felt by me from the very first email from Lynn. He is very haughty, privileged, and treated me like I was an immigrant trash. She rescheduled appointments repeatedly, including on the day of the appointment, while the children's activities had to be canceled to accommodate her shifting schedules. She ignored the witnesses from my side, and kept regurgitating the other party's witness lies, provided by that family's worst representatives. Many of them refused to participate in the mud slinging, including my mother-in-law. Lynn interviewed the kids, and anything they said about the other party, she blamed on me - I was not even there when the kids experienced all of this!!! She completely ignored the kids' wishes - and she is supposedly there to protect their interests?! She sure was not! She made the kids so uncomfortable with her interrogation, that they dreaded the very name. One of them eventually just shut her off during her multi-hour questioning, because she kept asking the questions to trip him, to get him to say what she wanted to hear - that is a direct quote from the child. She was there to support the lies the other party fed her. She made up her mind on the case before she even met me or the kids. She is the worst and DANGEROUS! PLEASE SAVE YOUR KIDS A LOT OF ANXIETY, AND KEEP THEM AWAY FROM THIS HORRIBLE INDIVIDUAL, WHO SHOULD NOT BE ALLOWED TO TOUCH HUMANS, FORGET DEALING WITH CHILDREN!!!

Guardian ad Litem's are supposed to be advocates for the child. Lynn is horrible. She never bills you, only when she can hold it against you (pay attention to your contract) and when she does, she holds your paperwork hostage (I won't give the court this..... Until you do this.... What does that sound like???) . It is sad that people like her get to abuse the system as they do. That they are considered advocates of the child and yet abuse the courts, their own power, and the parents that want the best for their child. She gets zero respect and is just greedy and money hungry...... If she cared so much for the child, she wouldn't put the child's parents through hell financially like she does and hold hostage important court documents. Disgusting.......and I hear she has children of her own.......even more dispicable as is the Judges who allow this atrocity to continue and do nothing.