Claire Karlene Mehaffey

I will start off by saying that Claire seemed very ready and willing to represent me in the beginning , when I had first come up with full amount $3,500 dollar retainer fee for my Child custody case for my son with my ex boyfriend . As I said , at first she seemed attentive to a degree . Then I would... get emails from her where it came off as if she was putting my story and actions into question . In our particular case there was domestic violence that I had occurred that I had never reported until after I had taken my children , my 3 year old daughter from a previous relationship and my son and fled . I had pictures of the numerous attacks on me and had filed a report with APD and had even been living at the Noah Project . She seemed enthusiastic about all of this documentation that I had , yet when we went to court she didn't really focus on it too much . Infact , she really didn't focus much on anything . It seemed to me that she was just there to keep the peace and not really fight for me . After it was all said and done, Claire was very short and hardly ever responded to an email or phone call . I was never sent copies of the court order and had to go on a "Wild goose chase" to only find out that our orders had never been filed or even signed by the judge . So, basically I'm right back where to where I started and it feels like I had payed all of that money for a retainer, which somehow she managed to GO OVER !!! All for nothing . What a terrible experience, She is horrible ! Definitely wouldn't recommend her ..