I highly recomend Mr. Phipps. I had a child custody / suppport case for which i tried to resolve by myself and filed a lot of paperwork and dragged for about a year and a half until my daughters mother started threatening me about resorting to extorsion and diffamation to get her way ( she wanted for... me to have supervised visitations every other weekend , wanted to move to tallahassee, wanted for me NOT to have decison making authority and wanted a $900.00 a month child support payment , she stopped working so that it would look that she had no income ). i looked at several other lawyers but their retainer was too high for me on my financial situation at the time .Mr. Phipps came recomended by a co worker of mine who had been represented by Phipps and won his case allowing him to have a 50/50 shared custody of his daughter ( which was my goal as well) Upon contacting Mr. Phipps his secretary was promt on scheduling a phone conference with him so he could look over my case free of charge to determine if he could help me. He listned and scheduled me into his office to look at the paperwork I had already filed. He was conpasionete and conserned, the hearing was in less than a week when i went to talk to him . he quickly worked with me on a retainer i could afford since i had filed a lot of the paperwork already correctly on my own . imediately ccontacted pinellas clerk of couirt and moved my hearing date re did my my child support calculations and imputed her minimun wage since she could not produce tax returns proving she didn't have an income or the inhability to work He prepared a portfolio which blew away the magistrate since everything he asked was in front of him before he asked for it (on the magistrates own words "i'm not used to this level of organization i wish all my cases for the rest of the day would be like this ") he navigated the magistrated through all the evidence and i was in and out of that courtroom in under 45 minutes with everything I asked for. Thanks to Mr. Phipps i'm able to see my daugher 3 days a week I have shared custody and an affortable and fair child support payement and the hablility to have a say so on the decisions that affect my daughters life ( i was not married to the mother so i had no parental rights on the eyes of the law before this aside from paying child support ) . All that and i got money left over on my retainer which he promptly refunded after my final judgment was received . If you want to make sure the court system doesn't rail road you, need someone that will work with you and that will be real about expectations and find the best way for you to approach your case without leaving you bank rupt . this is your lawyer .

I was going through a messy divorce and didn't have a lot of money since I wasn't getting any help from my ex and have 2 kids. Mr Phipps was kind enough to take my case for a very minimal fee . To him it was more about helping than the money which is very rare now a days. I had called several lawye...rs and the amount of money they wanted to charge me was just unbelievable, and they too claimed they were giving me a good deal. He was like and angel that was sent to me through a very difficult time in my life. He is very kind and caring and honest. I would highly recommend him to anyone that is looking for a great lawyer.