Paula Jean Schaefer

Family Law Attorney Paula Schaefer is simply AMAZING! READ THIS REVIEW I struggled for 3 years to find a family law attorney who actually listened, treated me like a human being, and cared about the details of my divorce case. I went through 2 attorneys and thousands of wasted dollars before I ...found Paula. I used to get so frustrated and say "I wish I was rich so I could afford an attorney who actually cared about my case as much as I do" Well I'm not rich, but I found an attorney in Paula, who treated me like I was. Her fees are competitive with the Indianapolis area Marketplace, but you will get so much more from Paula than any other attorney. She is kind, steadfast, honest, professional, cool under pressure, and a classy attorney who will never make you feel like you are unworthy of great legal representation. Paula is also a mom so she knows what you are going through. She has the right combination of experience and compassion and I promise you from experience, that it is rare to find these qualities in an attorney. She returns phone calls, responds to e-mails, Has an incredible legal staff, and prepares thoroughly so you are ABSOLUTELY ready for a hearing if necessary. I can not thank her enough for the way she treated me, the way she valued my input, and the way she cared about my case. So why am I writing this review for Paula Schaefer? Because she has totally restored my faith in attorneys. Paula you are the best and I am so grateful that I found you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

I got very little help from Paula. Every time we met I felt she was unprepared, she had not really taken the time to sit down and study my case. She made a mistake early on in a very simple child support form that costed me an additional round of negotiations. We ended up going to mediation because o...f her advice, and once there her focus was much more on appeasing / comforting me than on actually working for me. She backpedaled in the mediation on advice she had provided during the actual preparation for it. She couldn't defend or even explain, during mediation, how the opposing counsel had calculated my salary to appear higher and less beneficial for our calculations, but still totally accepted their calculations. At the end, I walked out with the same result as if I had gone straight to court or accepted my ex spouses's initial proposal... only a year later and with way higher attorney fees.

After having multiple other lawyers who stood by and did nothing while allowing my ex to essentially railroad me, Paula was truly a God send. My case was complicated and bad when Paula agreed to take it. She immediately recognized the egregious mistakes that past lawyers had made and she went right... to work. Paula performed miracles....she fixed things that others said could not be fixed. She is incredibly intelligent, organized, ethical, honest, and aggressive....nothing gets past her. Her fees were fair and she was very meticulous about the time that I was charged for. Paula is a well respected insider who knows every detail about how the family courts function, who the players are, etc. I will warn potential clients....Paula ONLY practices by the utmost ethical standards. As a client, if you are willing to lie and cheat, are vindictive and just want to make your ex suffer, Paula will NOT endorse or put up with this type of behavior.