Kristin Marie Birkhold

We hired Ms. Birkhold based on her explicit and repeated written and verbal assertion that she would be able to handle my wife’s divorce from her ex-husband, get his parental right terminated, and help me adopt our daughter. Once the divorce was final, we inquired as to what the next step was. At... that time, Ms. Birkhold informed my wife that she was not licensed in the state of Ohio and could assist us no further. My wife sent multiple e-mails to Ms. Birkhold asking why she had told us that she could help us with the entire process if she knew all along that she couldn’t and she never even gave us the courtesy of a reply. We were devastated, disappointed, and shocked. After being so close to being able to move on as a family, to be told by the lawyer that was supposed to be protecting us that she lied to us from the beginning… I have never been so disappointed in a professional businessperson in my life. She never even apologized, she just stopped communicating with us. Ms. Birkhold’s behavior is repugnant for a legal professional and businessperson.