Jenifere Reichard Singleton, Esq.
Family Law Attorney
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
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