Paula Jean Schaefer

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.