Jennifer Fulvia Meister

My wife and I worked with Jennifer Meister on a family law matter. The issue involved a parenting plan, and the case was brought on by our son's biological father. Jennifer is a smart and competent woman. However she is also distracted and made it clear that we were not her priority, except when... it came to billing us. Jennifer conducted a marketing photoshoot during my wife's zoom mediation, meaning she was distracted and not present for much of the mediation. This mediation was covering our son's parenting agreement with his biological father, and it was the most important thing in the world to us. Clearly it was not that important to Jennifer. During the mediation, Jennifer actually attempted to tank the mediation and told my wife it's not going to work out very early on, which per my wife was in no way the situation. We believe she did that so that we would have to move to a court case, which would continue to rack up bills. My wife was able to save it and reach an agreed upon parenting agreement thankfully, although a second mediation needed to be scheduled because Jennifer had to leave the first before it could be finalized to watch her child (which I would understand, except for the fact that she was absent for much of it doing a photoshoot, which is beyond ridiculous, and the plan could have been wrapped up in one mediation if she had actually set that time aside in her calendar). The second mediation racked the bills up further. Since reaching that parenting agreement (which we had paid approximately $10,000 to Jennifer to reach it), we have now been charged another $6k just to recalculate child support. Every two weeks her firm sends us another retainer for $4,500, when at this point it is very minor work left over. It looks like we are going to be charged $10k for them to work through a financial affidavit and calculate child support per normal guidelines. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? They also charge us a minimum of $35 for every email sent, even if it's two sentences, and for a 10 minute phone call expect to pay close to $100. Jennifer even charged us $350 for legal research about changing a minor’s name. She’s a family law attorney and she’s charging us to research family law?? Should we pay for her law school also? In addition to Jennifer’s ridiculous billing and complete lack of caring, she also appeared to change her mind frequently on best strategic course of action. She strongly discouraged us from getting GAL involved early on and said it will cost us a lot of money. Then 2 days before the mediation she said we should just cancel the mediation and get GAL involved. We were very confused and decided to keep the mediation, but we now realize it was because the mediation conflicted with her marketing photoshoot. Jennifer is money hungry and does not care about you. If you are not extremely wealthy, steer clear. We fired Jennifer before finalizing child support because she is terrible. We would not have been able to finalize the parenting plan at all if we hadn’t put forth countless hours of work on our own. She certainly didn’t get it done for us.

I found Jennifer to be amazingly responsive, easy to work with and extremely practical. It was very reassuring to know that she was not just providing sound legal advice but also helping and offering great advice period. She was an excellent resource and I have referred her to many others, which in... my mind is the ultimate compliment to her personally and professionally, which I was happy to do.

The compassion and attention to detail that Jenn afforded my case was instramental to my end goal of being a continued presence in my child's life. She was not intimidated by the missteps made by my previous counsel and agressively worked through the process to achieve a just and fair outcome for bot...h myself and my child. Her expertise and diligent forethought was an invaluable asset that I will always be grateful to have aquired at a time when i would have otherwise been helpless to fight for my rights as a concerned father. I owe my sincere appreciation to this woman for the numerous hours she spent consumed by my situation to ensure a suitable outcome was achieved. Lastly, her court room demeanor was only surpassed by her thorough and knowledgable writing in the many filings and motions that she conducted. A true and complete professional and master of her trade.