Jennifer Shephard

Jennifer Shephard is an attorney in Family Law and Mediation.  She understands that too often family Law clients faced with a variety of emotional situations. The collaborative law process empowers parties to achieve practical solutions to complicated problems.  It recognizes that emotional issues exist that cannot be addressed by the legal system.  Often divorcing parties spend thousands of dollars in legal fees to argue about pets or furniture that has little to no monetary value. Generally speaking, the parties in such cases are not arguing about dogs, cats or furniture.  Instead, they are reacting to psychological pains that they are experiencing.  These emotional issues are ignored in the court process.  The collaborative law process is built upon open and transparent disclosure and sharing of information with participants, face to face honest discussion and negotiation and preservation of relationships between the parties.  Rather than being combatants in an adversarial proves, participants in the collaborative process are a “Collaborative Team” that works together to reach a common goal.

After graduating from Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center at Touro College in 2003, Jennifer practiced law in New York for over 14 years, 12 of which concentrated in Family Law. While practicing family law in New York, she represented clients with issues involving divorce and/or separation, domestic partnerships, custody, support, domestic violence, paternity, and many other family situations. Jennifer moved to North Carolina in January 2018 in search of a better quality of life for her family. She has settled into life in the Carolinas and looks forward to being able to help families move forward from difficult situations. Ultimately, my goal is to be a calm, helpful, and supportive advocate for my clients whether as part of the Collaborative Team or litigating in a courtroom.

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