Experience

• Represents clients in both high and low conflict domestic relations and family law matters with varying levels of complexity, including divorce, dissolution, child custody, child support and related juvenile matters
• Extensive experience with business valuations and division of retirement benefits
• Fervent advocate in domestic relations and family law matters while always striving to resolve issues in a practical and amicable way; encouraging clients to work towards a “win-win” outcome
• Strongly believes in Collaborative Law, mediation and other alternative dispute resolution tactics as effective mechanisms to achieve solutions beneficial to all parties

Background

• Jenifere has always focused on family law, including a two-year clerkship with a small, boutique Cleveland law firm during law school
• Trained in Collaborative and advanced Collaborative techniques
• Trained in mediation
• Guardian ad Litem Memberships & Associations
• Trustee of The Center for Principled Family Advocacy
• Center for Principled Family Advocacy’s Cleveland Collaborative Practice Group
• International Academy of Collaborative Professionals (IACP)
• Family Law sections of the American, Ohio State and Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Associations

Publications

• Speaker on various domestic relations and family law topics most often centering on the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction
• Worked extensively on a case of first impression and ground-breaking decision: Simcox v. Simcox, 2008 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 56754 (N.D. Ohio 2008); as it relates to the Grave Risk Defense & Undertakings pursuant to the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction

Education

Villanova University, B.A., 2000

Cleveland-Marshall College of Law, J.D., 2003