Law Offices of Matthew J Gonsalves

This counselor is burnt out and lazy.
He only cares about the money.
He sat me in front of a known gender biased Commissioner and directed me to the BAR reviews to prove it (Elizabeth Hendrickson who is rightfully and finally demoted to traffic court). Other lawyers said they would never allow Hendrickson to preside over their cases. Matt admitted to me that some lawyers were dodging this awful Commissioner at the clerk’s office during filing.
Why did Matt not recuse this Commissioner and go straight to trial in front of the Presiding Judge?
GREED!
Matt admitted to me that he knew that particular Commissioner and the opposing counsel (Cherie T Davis of the «Holistic Law Offices of CT Davis» BARF!!) had the pattern and practice of bringing known false abuse allegations and dragging cases on so long that litigants frequently went broke before resolving anything.
My case bankrupt me and cost me my child, after fighting for 4 years due to «strategic errors» that Matt created for me (The CA State BAR cited «Strategic Errors» and recommended that I sue for Legal Malpractice but I didn’t have the resources to sue or I would have).
My daughter is a mess as she never sees me, her baby brother, or family since the mom has been given full custody, despite her being proven to have lied about the «choking of the child».
My daughter has spent so much time in mental hospitals since living with mother for the last several years, that she can’t even go to reqular school anymore. She struggles with cutting and suicudal ideation and had heard voices telling her to «hurt» herself.
The child’s friends have dumped her because she is «Too sad all the time».
She did want to be a doctor but now I’ll be happy if she just doesn’t kill herself or turn out to be a dysfunctional misanthrope like her borderline mother. (I know that’s terrible but the record supports that opinion, unfortunately)
Matt told me «Just remember, you are just another good-​for-​nothing man in that family court.» He also said that the court hated him as much as they hate me!
He was correct about that presumption, but he also should have attacked the abuse allegations in trail and never allowed me to sit before that Commissioner, or enter into a 730 custody evaluation.
One lawyer told me I was stupid for doing a custody evaluation.
Matt had just built a new office when I hired him and I suppose he thought I would be paying for it all by myself from my case alone.
My case got so screwed up that Matt offered to pay for another lawyer to take over the case. He even interviewed the new lawyer for me. Then he abruptly refused to pay the new attorney.
I was left alone to watch my child being taken away and slowly deteriorate over the last several years.