Superior Court South County Division — Attraction in Chula Vista

Family court mediator Leticia Castillo Velasquez was extremely biased and one-sided based on no facts.

I am going through a divorce and was scheduled for mediation services here. The mediator by the name of Leticia Castillo Velasquez seems to have a vendetta against women who file for divorce. She made up her mind she didn't like me from the start, and the entire session was extremely unfair. She was extremely biased and unprofessional. I found other reviews about her as well here on Yelp all saying the same thing.

Long story short, my ex husband started using hard drugs during my pregnancy and started verbally and physically abusing me. We have been separated since my daughter was born (she is 7 months now) but I tried very hard to coparent and work with him and give him chance after chance. But every time he'd say he was getting clean he would relapse. Last straw was him threatening my life and showing up to my parent's house where I was staying with my daughter and threatening to kill me. I filed a restraining order he refused to show up to court to fight, thus hasn't seen our daughter in 4 months. He hasn't paid a single cent towards her since she's been born. He refuses to hold down a stable job. While he likes the romantic notion of being a father, he doesn't want the responsibility that comes with it.

Sounds like I should have a slam-dunk case, right? Nope! Leticia blindly believed all of my ex's lies and allowed him to speak freely, while everything I said was challenged. She incorrectly paraphrased everything I said, put words in my mouth, told me I have no credibility and the judge won't like me, called my father a domestic abuser during my childhood (based off my ex telling her he and my dad got in a phsyical altercation several years ago), told me she didn't believe anything I was telling her and why should she believe me and not my ex, how dare I judge my ex for his drug usage when I have skeletons in my own closet (referring to a drinking problem I had two years ago - even my ex told her I quit drinking after I got pregnant but she didn't care).

She asked me for what I wanted as a visitation arrangement and I told her the plan my attorney and I put together. She told me it's not good enough and I need to allow my ex to take my daughter at least three times a week because I'm doing my daughter a disservice by "keeping her from getting to know her father" and she will grow up with psychological issues because of it.

Everything was turned around on me and she threatened to get CPS to come to my house. Not my drug-addicted ex and his drug-using family with violent histories, criminal records and DUI's...But MY house is a bad environment for my daughter.

My ex was allowed to scoff, shake his head and make comments and address my points. But if I would try to do the same she'd yell at me to stop it and refused to let me address the lies he was telling her. Whenever I'd circle back and tell her I needed to address the things he was saying, she flat out told me no and quit backtracking. And to quit minimizing my actions and address my faults.

I left her office in tears. It is my understanding mediators are not supposed to take sides, judge or give personal opinions but she did all of the above. She may have been prejudiced too because my ex went in there speaking Spanish to her and they seemed to form an immediate bond over the fact they share the same culture.

Regardless, I am not sure what her issue is but she clearly has biases towards women who file for divorce based on my experience as well as some of these other reviews I've read.

If you've had a similar situation with this woman, please don't hesitate to PM me as I am planning on filing a formal complaint against her. She should NOT be in this line of work as she is a woman-shamer and victim-blamer, possibly prejudiced and sexist in the sense it seems she finds men more credible than women, no matter what the...

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There is some waiting if you have an arrangement. I made an appointment for 1pm with start time at 1:15. I checked in at 1pm and waited outside the courtroom to gain entry with my group. Once inside the courtroom I had to wait further as we were given court instructions then told we would be called in alphabetical order.

My last name begins with a P so I had to wait a while. The pleading was simple and easy and I onky had to wait a short while for bail, like 5-10 minutes.

The whole process took 90 minutes for an infarction.

The court staff was friendly. The court did not allow me to read a book while waiting for my name to be called. I was told by a deputy to put my book away.

They don't allow eating, drinking, chewing gum, smoking or electronic devices in the courtroom.

Fast bail checkout. Just the wait to plead to the commissioner takes a while. They could tweak it a little more to allow the process to go by faster. Sadly, they don't allow reading books in the courtroom during an...