DON'T BELIEVE ALL THIS PERFECT REVIEWS ABOUT THIS ATTORNEY, RUN FROM HIM IF IT'S A CHILD CASE!!!! Benjamin William is the worst nightmare for custody cases or if he is court appointed for child council , he lies and coaches child to lie about the good parent! He was court appointed for my granddaughter as there were allegations of abuse by child's mother , he never investigated the allegations nor spoke to any one of paternal family side and lied on paper saying Paternal grandmother was no where to be found! When i kept calling him to find out when he was coming to talk to me and the family, And wrote a horrible report on child's father like , that he felt scared because father looked like he was going to beat up , that he was not a good father , that he kept child up all night and child would fall asleep in school which ended in father's custody to supervised visit ! and he recommended for my granddaughter to stay with her abuser ! Thanks to him my granddaughter try to take her life cutting her arm because she could not take so much abuse from mother and on top non of paternal family was able to see her , this child grew up with paternal family till 13 yrs old and i raised her and this evil attorney only had horrible things to say about me (us) I don't understand why he's still in business , at his age .. he looks like he's 100 yrs old ! And is bias , he gives the children to the bad parent and on top takes away the father from child for no reason but his lies , and doesn't even recommend for child to keep in contact with paternal family ! I remember my granddaughter called me and asked if i could call her attorney and ask if him if he could get her to visit us as she missed us so much and i called attorney Benjamin William , to ask him what my granddaughter told me , and he had the nerve to tell me: Your granddaughter doesn't want to see you ! It's the maternal grandmother she wants to see , which made no sense at all because why would my granddaughter call me to ask to see her maternal grandmother? if she is already in contact with her , if child lives with mother its obvious she has contact with the maternal grandmother ! But the mother and this dishonest attorney made my granddaughter lie and change the story! I was devastated ! And didn't see my princess for a year and a half , until i went to court and showed evidence of all abuse in court and thank you Jesus i was joined in the custody ! At least my granddaughter who is now 15 gets to see me and her paternal family, she's very happy and we all are helping her with her self esteem, not to ever try to take her life , and to speak up and not let no one at all coach her to lie about her family that loves her so much, as a lie can destroy a good person and if she wants to succeed in life she has to be honest. Its very sad how the system has failed her along with this evil man and the other attorney not to mention Angela Buono .. stay away from this two attorneys because all they do is milk" you for thousands and thousands of dollars and at the last court they told the father not to go as it would be better, regardless of him begging Angela Buono his attorney he wanted to appear Angela Buono told me to do anything to keep him away from court! Because if he showed up he would loose custody ! Only to call us back at 9pm to give us the bad news , Father has supervised visits only and has to pay for them and that his child was not coming back home! Unbelievable what a pair of corrupted attorneys can do!! Most likely both of this attorneys have no biological kids or if they do they sure need a heart transplant!! read more

Not going to listen and act in your best interests. Lip service only. Get another attorney if your divorce is the slightest bit complicated or you are being victimized by non-physical abuse. He has zero abilities with Verbal, emotional, financial coercion and abuse . He won't Enforce what is ordered. Nightmare. Move on to the next attorney on the list. Trust me. read more

I utilized Mr. Benjamin for a few years through mid 2019, when after his recommendation on a final issue, it wasn't working out. I asked we stop the ongoing work, and given this final effort was based upon his recommendation, I asked he waive the final fees (~$8K). I thought we agreed to part that way, but I'm now learning that's not the case. Mr. Benjamin's office has filed with the Court for fees, interest and collection fees. I've spoken briefly with Mr. Benjamin this week asking if we can resolve and split the difference- he got angry and asked for full feel regardless of the outcome. And today after sharing our email history from mid-2019, he responded simply stating he'll move forward with collection efforts. It's unfortunate it's come to this, given I have respect for Mr. Benjamin and his team! Yet the office only sees fees and not a link to their performance and fees - particularly since I only moved forward based upon HIS recommendation! read more

William Benjamin represented my now ex-wife in family law matters between 2015 and 2021. I found him to be dishonest and interested only in prolonging disagreements between the parties. In December 2018, I was notified by the California State Disbursement unit that Benjamin had filed to switch child support payments to the online system. My payments (which had been timely to that date) were simply sent to his office. The change took roughly two months to register and one of the payments was routed to a bank account held in Trust with my now ex-wife. The other two payments were both processed and received by the state by May 15, 2019. Benjamin filed to garnish over $10,000 from my bank account without bothering to check the online portal or the Trust account to see that my ex-wife had actually already received several payments. He never sent me a letter notifying me that he intended to file the Writ of garnishment, he simply filed it without bothering to do any due diligence, presumably just to harass me. In 2020, he filed on behalf of my ex-wife a failed five year restraining order against me and scheduled a 3 day trial where the effort was denied by the courts. Among his irrelevant and compromised witnesses were another of my ex-wife's attorneys, Michael Kirby, who failed in his 11 day trial to modify our divorce agreement in 2018. Benjamin should have retired many years ago, the courts would have been rid of this menace to the family law courts. read more

High integrity, no nonsense, rational, highly respected, thorough understanding of the law, worth every penny and then some. Listen to what he says and do exactly as he tells you - he will get you through this horrible experience!! read more

My best advice is stay away from this attorney. I thought I did my research on him before hiring him. Ask a Forsenic Accountant - and they will tell you he has so many sanctions against him. He made severe mistakes and never corrected them at court or on his billing. Check him out at the court house in the records dept. or go to the assessor office.. or go to the court house and see him in court before signing your life away. read more

The best of the best. High integrity, Mr. Benjamin knows this stuff and won't waste your money with useless motions or machinations.

Whew! Lot of emotion here. Bill Benjamin handled my divorce. I found him to be ethical, cost-effective (he used para-legals when appropriate and billed me appropriately), and aggressive when the situation called for it. I recommend him to my friends. read more

You know, not all of people's comments are going to be similar. My experience happens to be completely different . I had a rather perfect experience if I could add I can say 'interesting'. I have one bad seed baby's mother. I have a full time that we share with our son who is now 15. The mother is so jealous that my marriage is secure and everything a wife wants that she still don't have. She has 2 other children with that fiancee she so calls. That has not made his move to marry, They been "engaged" from 12 years. She lives with his parents down stairs, I have a 3 bed house that I took over from my pops that he almost lost. We go to all of my sons activities and sports practices and kung fu, where the fiancee has not showed up for 1 since my son could walk. (I separated from the mother when my son was 1 to 2 yrs). Anyway, I had to file hardship last year against her because she was collecting support me from when my son was living with me full time everyday, 5 days a week 3 years straight. My wife thought that was just wrong. And we also wanted to establish my custody as a father which I never did after separation and thats one thing that killed me every time I would change careers, they would collect 90% of my check and never asked for my establishment. It was Bad. After the hardship they awarded me. strike 1 So she would start paying me every month. Then ontop of that the other court room assigned us to mediation. They interviewed us then my son. And we would never have to go into mediation if mom wasn't trying to switch all his living lifestyle. She wanted to change his 'TECH' school that I enrolled him in 2 years prior, she wanted too enroll him next to her house. That school was called Mar Vista Jr, which was not even a tech school. Basically she wanted to show she had him full time and change his living, with non of his friends living there. Guess what, She lost that case too. Strike 2 Now this is where I am introduced to Mr atty William. So the judge asks well do any of you have anything to add.. and the mom raises her hands crying and says "Thats it", "Just like that"? (I forgot to mentioned every time we would be infront of the judge, she would put on this cry! and say I don't know how to do this Im new to all this" BALLING". Which means crying a river to some of you. Judge states "What do you mean Ms _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _? " This court is over, because I feel like your on his side", while she is crying and sobbing her breath. "The judge says, "Well Ms. _ _ _ _ _ _, If you feel like that then file"! "Mom says "But he just walked out on us no trace for 10 years", I almost died! It was a whole new court date right there."Judge says If you feel he owes you for so many amount of years then you can do this and...ydda, yadda...etc. Guess what, thats exactly what she did. I got a letter in the mail from child support saying I owe her 56,000 dollars for these many years. I was week in the knees let me tell ya! I didn't know what to do, but in my own truth, I never walked out. I always remained a good loyal father to my son, it was unclear why she was doing this, she knew this too when I looked at her she gave me this glare in her eye at this very 1st court hearing. So I gathered all my evidence to show me being in my sons life through all his sports, school records, my sign ins sign outs of 6 to 6 program, his kung fu classes, I mean everything you can think of. Brought all that to court and at the end the judge tells me, Well Mr. _ _ _ _ _ , If you can show me where you or she signed that you dont owe her then this will go in effect. No matter my evidence, that wasn't enough for this judge. I was introduced to Mr Benjamen , and he took all my info down, we did the retainer, he did a what you call a disposition with her and let me tell you, on that day, I never seen her white cells turn her brown skin pail in my whole life trying to stay on top of his questions. I even recorded it on my cell. I still have it One key point that Mr Benjamin completed was getting info from the welfare office. We as regular citizens are unable to collect any piece of simple paper. He got this one small piece of her signature stating she needed help with welfare on her other family and she stated that I was an active father to her older son. That completely killed her motive and on Sunday before our final hearing, I got a call from Mr Benjamin at 7pm saying she wanted to close the case, she don't owe me and I don't owe her with no arrears on top of that! Thank you Mr Benjamin for figuring where 56,000 dollars was going... "Nowhere!" . read more

Mr. Benjamin was my attorney in my divorce and child custody in the late 2012. I found him to be ethical, brilliant, skillful, honest, cost-effective (he used paralegals when appropriate and billed me appropriately), and aggressive when the situation called for it. I had best experience and I highly recommend Mr. Benjamin without reservation. read more

I used Mr. Benjamin for my child custody case. I was referred to him by a friend, and I could not be any more grateful. He is simply the BEST attorney for child custody around in all of San Diego. He is truly looking out for the child(rens) best interest - unlike most attorney's who just want more money. He knows more about child psychology than any other attorney I talked to and will work to make sure what is best FOR YOUR KIDS is what you will get. I was so happy with the result he attained for me in regards to custody and would recommend you use him for sure if you are worried about losing custody of your kids or losing more than you think is best/fair for them. I am so thankful he represented me. He may not be flashy and fancy like other attorneys but don't be fooled by all that -- he knows the system more than anyone else as he's been doing this for years. He knows all the judges, etc. too and knows how to obtain the results YOU want. read more