Sharon Voyles Filipour

I retained Sharon Filipour as my attorney to represent me in my final three custody/visitation trials to gain significantly more visitation with my then young son thru his eventual emancipation. Sharon helped me climb out of a daunting and seemingly insurmountable legal custody hole - so common for... fathers that fall prey to the State of Virginia’s long record of blatant default custody rulings favoring the mother over the father - to successfully present our case for more visitation time with my then young son. Sharon readily provided me with her legal reasoning, solid common sense and sage advice, which enabled me to better handle and successfully diffuse many difficult and highly charged moments and situations over the course of many years with my ex-wife. Sharon's billing me for her legal services was always honest, fair and reasonable. Thru her tenacious efforts on my behalf during litigation with opposing counsel and in court, I was able to play a major role in my son’s life and develop and still enjoy a strong and loving relationship with him, now a 20-year-old junior flourishing in college.

I wholeheartedly agree with the existing reviews in regards to Sharon's expertise and demeanor. She is fair, honest, realistic, warm and perceptive. Right from the start, her goal was to help me come out on the other side of this divorce with the ability to rebuild my life - NOT to spend needless amo...unts of time and money trying to inflict pain on the person whose decisions destroyed our family life. She was truly the calm throughout the most difficult time of my life and kept me focused on the most important parts of the case. While she did her best to minimize fees and approach the case with a strategy of resolving things quickly and reasonably, she is definitely the one you want by your side when forced to litigate. I had many friends and family members in the court room and each one of them commented to me about how outstanding she was in court. In addition to her legal expertise, Sharon's life experiences as a parent and spouse helped me navigate very difficult parenting situations and personal hurdles. The advice and confidence she inspired in those areas could never be billed at an hourly rate. She is simply "the best". I consulted with several attorneys before a friend recommended Sharon, and choosing her was unequivocally the best decision I made. If you have to go through "the worst", you might as well have "the best" by your side.

I'd had a TERRIBLE experience in Family Court over the last several years with loss after loss. I went through 2 different attorneys who only seemed concerned with billing and didn't take the time to really listen and to help me. After being fed up with attorneys acting like they were doing me a fa...vor to work on my case for hundreds of dollars an hour, I hired Sharon with only a few days to go before a court proceeding. Right from the start, she was caring and knowledgeable and actually listened. She successfully argued for a continuance and was able to put together a winning strategy for court so, for once, I had a successful outcome. In preparing my case, it was not uncommon for me to get an email at 11:00 at night from Sharon saying, "what about this?" or "have you thought of this?" She obviously cares about the people she represents and genuinely wants to help. Her billing is extremely fair and she could have billed me for many hours of her time, both during work hours and after, but she chose not to out of the kindness of her heart. She has even helped me find a lawyer in another state to help me with a visitation matter. Also, she is very respectful to opposing counsel yet no nonsense. She will aggressively argue a point but be kind and reasonable at the same time. THANK YOU FOR EVERYTHING SHARON!