Law Office of William S Cizmadia

In a nutshell, I spent 3 years battling my ex; retained (and fired) 3 different attorneys during that period; spent thousands of dollars in attorneys fees; and wasted several hours in court. Very frustrating, to say the least. The whole ordeal is now over and I have ONLY Mr. Cizmadia to thank.
Mr. Cizmadia is dilligent, intelligent, extremely competent, and well put together. Additionally, Mr. Cizmadia is not afraid to respectfully battle a family law judge in order to make his point. Most importantly, Mr. Cizmadia is honest and fair in his billing. Never did I receive an invoice that I thought contained padded hours. To the contrary, I always felt underbilled. When it comes to family law attorneys, these traits are VERY hard, if not impossible, to find.
Regarding competency, Mr. Cizmadia takes the cake. He is prepared, knows the law and knows how to apply the law. You would think all attorneys have the law mastered. Afterall, that’s why us lay people hire them. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. None of my prior FAMILY LAW attorneys had a working knowledge of even the very basic FAMILY LAW principles. In fact, I was misadvised on several different issues.
If there were cons to list, I would most certainly list them. However, there are none.
If you are looking for a good family law attorney, hire Mr. Cizmadia. I can’t urge you enough.

This is my first review on Unilocal and the first time I’ve felt inclined to take the time doing one.
I’m going through an especially ugly divorce and child custody with a woman out to destroy me. Google «divorce personality disorder’. I’m on the receiving end of that.
Round 1 of my ongoing ordeal began with a 100% false domestic abuse charge + CLETS against me. Kicked out of my house, credit cards maxed, and nobody to recommend an attorney I did what most people would probably do: I googled ‘family law attorney’
Not surprisingly the top 20 search results are all $ 400-​$ 450 per hour attack dogs working out of Beverly hills. I decided to visit with one and see what my options were. That visit ended with a $ 10K cash-​only retainer to get started on anything. Not having that kind of cash on hand I had no choice but to look elsewhere.
And boy am I glad I did.
Looking for a more reasonably priced attorney in Glendale (where my wife and I lived) my Google search led me to attorney Bill Cizmadia.
To simply say that his hourly fee was less than half of what the Beverly Hills attorney wanted, or to say the vastly smaller retainer is why you should consider hiring Bill yourself would be to miss the point of a great Unilocal review — and to deprive you of a story that gets only more awesome.
Turns out my wife hired one of those Beverly Hills attorneys. In fact she hired one from the same address, same building, the same floor as the guy I originally met asking for a $ 10K cash retainer. As we used to say, «It’s on like Grey Poupon’
William «Bill» Cizmadia is the family law attorney I hired. He listened to my story and consistently offset my hysteria over the details of my situation with calm reassurances that as an attorney with scores (100s?) of similar cases that the law works a certain way. He was already very familiar with the court and judge who would be reviewing the domestic abuse charges against me.
I’m going to cut to the chase here: Following Bill Cizmadia’s advice and game plan, the domestic abuse allegations and demands for attorney’s fees (hers) were thrown out. That sleazy Beverly Hills attorney charged my ex-​wife in the neighborhood of $ 30,000. Mr. Cizmadia won one of the most important battles that will set the stage for shared custody of my daughter for a fraction of what those Bev Hills attorneys wanted.
I can’t gush enough about Bill Cizmadia. He always kept my best interests a priority, he didn’t nickel and dime me and he proved to me that when it comes to hired guns, it’s all about quality and not quantity.
If you haven’t figured it out by now: I can’t recommend William Cizmadia highly enough.