Renee M DeFreece

Our family is so thankful to Renee for her expert legal advice and compassion during the most stressful time of our lives. Our married daughter was 8 months pregnant when her husband walked out the door, leaving her and her 7 year old son with no explanation or financial support. We hired Renee who i...mmediately went to work on a parenting plan, child support, and did her best to help support us with our court cases. After a year long case, our daughter's divorce was finalized and she was awarded primary custody of both young children. Now we are able to ensure our grandchildren are going to be raised in a stable and loving home with our family. Stacie, paralegal, was also amazing and there for us when we had so many questions! What a great team, we are so THANKFUL to have outstanding legal advice and representation.

The first impression during the consult was Renee was very intelligent and knew her stuff. She appeared to be honest with what she truly thought we could accomplish. She had another attorney Karan help because it was cheaper. But it took his WAY longer to do everything and he clearly had no idea what... he was doing. We stared to feel like she didn’t have time for us and was squeezed our case into her work load. Looking back she shouldn’t have taken our case and been honest that she couldn’t take another client, she tried her best but was too busy to really give our case the attention it deserved, this was about our child after all and deserved to be not just squeezed in. The worst part is at the end of it all, not being satisfied we reached out after already having paid $10,000, we had a balance of a little over $600. She then told us to pay what we could. At that point we had nothing to pay, we had paid all we could and didn’t bother attempting to borrow money from friends and family we just didn’t pay anything. Months had passed with no communication and then my husband gets a phone call saying we are in collections and that Renee is suing us over $600 we owed her. I called the office confused they said since we didn’t pay anything they sent us to collections. I explained Renee said to pay what we could, which was nothing Stacie here paralegal then said that meant “within reason”. If some type of minimum payment was due then that should have been stated. I reached out via email to Renee stating I want to see my final notice that says you’re sending me to collections. She said she doesn’t need to do that and that she had said she would “be willing to accept anything”. So now we are in collections and she will not pull it from collections after telling us we only needed to pay what we could. Renee stated one thing and did another. If we knew this was going to collections we would have asked friends and family to help. After paying her THOUSANDS of dollars and being told to pay “what we could”, we find ourselves in collections over $600, Do NOT recommend. Do NOT use.

Renee represented our us in a complex, multi-sibling family custody case. We were distraught with emotions and fear for our grandchildren’s safety and personal care. She showed a genuine interest in our case and the welfare of our family, as a whole. Renee is direct and clear when communicating with... us. She was quick to set me straight, when I was off course. She did it with a soft but steady influence. Renee has a gentle but intense approach in the way she represented us in court. I felt confident when she was addressing our pleas to the commissioner. The way she poised the law over our situation was impressive and I sensed a level of respect that I don’t often feel in court hearings. Rene’s Paralegal, Stacie, is phenomenal. She is responsive and confident. I have complete faith in the both of them. I sleep every night, at peace, knowing that my grandchildren are not only safe, but thriving.