Bonnie Platter

Bonnie represented me when my daughter's father took me to court to establish custody, parenting time and child support. At the time I had an active order of protection against him. I genuinely felt my daughter and my life were both in danger around her father. I told Bonnie my story and provided ...my evidence for her. She represented our case exceptionally well in court. We were dealing with a judge who is known to give split custody to parents even when domestic violence is an issue from one of the parties. In my case, there was a domestic dispute, but I had no proof. She was able to extract the most important pieces of evidence and position it to the judge so he was able to understand the severity of the situation. There were many times in court when Bonnie had to act on her toes. Especially having to deal with the father's angry spikes in court, display of aggression towards me or the judge and helping to keep it calm on our end. She made great suggestion for psychiatric evulation of the father and the judge took her position to order it. The psychiatrist unfortunately dropped the ball. Yet, Bonnie was still able to effectively show the judge how the psychiatrist failed on her end and was able to use evidence from the evaluation to position our case. I mention all these details to stress how she consistently had to execute well during intense moments of our case. I asked for Sole Custody and quite frankly did not care for child support. In court, I was originally granted Temporary Sole Custody, supervised visits and child support. The final hearing, since the father had passed all the drug tests, we were granted Joint Custody. However, I had final decision making authority. In addition, another huge win is that I am the custodial parent and child is with father every other weekend for 48 hours. I was also awarded child support and back pay for hospital fees the father never paid me. Even though I wanted Sole Custody, I am still happy with this outcome considering the judge usually just gives Joint to almost every couple. This is very personal to me, because Bonnie helped to protect my daughter from enduring a traumatic childhood and I am very grateful to have hired her.

I am so glad that I found Bonnie to represent me in my case! She is knowledgeable, insightful, and has lots of experience in the field. Throughout my case, she was always ready for anything that happened and had several strategies prepared for any given scenario. During hearings, Bonnie was alwa...ys confident and prepared. I am also grateful for how personable Bonnie has been. She was compassionate and caring, which is so important in cases like these. Lonnie, the paralegal in the case, was also always helpful and great at sending over any correspondence. Thank you again!

I am writing this review because I feel strongly that it should be shared in the event others find themselves in a hard place, like I found myself in. During the most trying time of my life Bonnie was not only a fantastic lawyer but grew to be a dear friend. Bonnie is somehow professional and persona...ble, extremely knowledgeable but also willing to learn & research. Bonnie helped me to also understand the process every step of the way. She took interest in my case and it felt like it was her personal fight to get my kids back, which she ultimately did. My family and I are so grateful for Bonnie, and I would implore any other family to hire her as well.

If I could give more than 5 stars I definitely would. I hired Bonnie for custody of my son, and let me tell you, I made the right choice. I think the general population only seeks a lawyer in a time of need and I was one of those people. From the start she made me feel better about the situation and ...helped lift the biggest weight I have ever had in my life. I worked with Bonnie for a year and a half and there are some definite things I can tell you, SHE CARES! Not like you are paying her so she should care. I'm talking really cares. I always felt like she was invested in me, my son and our case. She was upset about the things that I was upset about, happy about the things I was happy about. We had the same goal and I felt like she was my team captain. She took the time to learn how I was as an individual and before I could even ask questions she already had answers. She would even remember the tiniest details from the beginning that even I had forgot about. I never felt like a number or a client. I have and would recommended her to anyone looking for a lawyer. You are truly getting the best there is to offer and I mean that with all sincerity.

I hired Bonnie to fight for my sons future. She went above and beyond, she has so much knowledge and shows so much passion in what she does. I can not imagine having gone through my case without her advocating for us! If I ever need another attorney, there is no doubt I will go with her again. I can ...not recommend her enough!!!