Mehaffey & Watson Law Firm

Although Claire did win my open and shut case it cost me $3500 for not much work and she is horrible in the customer service area. Wrote her 3 email recently about another matter and never heard back. I’m done with her and her firm. GT

I would not recommend Clair Mehaffey to anyone. I hired her to get full custody

of my daughter because she was being sexually molested by the her maternal uncle.

When my wife and I sat down with Claire and explained the situation, she said

that this was going to be an open and close case and she could get a temporary

custody order signed as soon as she got her retainer fee of $3500.00. For my

daughter's protection, we managed to pay her in full and she said the documents

were ready to be sign by the judge.I was fortunate of the timing because according

to Claire's assistant, Claire got the judge to sign the temporary order while my

daughter was still in my custody so the law firm advised me there was no need to

return her to her mother. Little did I know, the judge didn't sign the paper until

the next day and I was convinced to go against my current court orders.

I attended the first court hearing and Claire came in 5 minutes before the

court time unprepared. Unfortunately, the judge denied the motion to keep my

daughter because of the previous events leading up to not giving her back.

After Claire recieved her retainer fee, she left me in the dark and never

communicated with me. When I would call her, I gave her assistant a callback

message and my call was never returned. The day before the final hearing, I

got an unexpected call from Claire's assistant to come to the office and sign

some papers for court. Claire was not in the office, so the assistant went

over the paperwork I signed and told me I needed to bring my Tax returns to

court the next day. The next day, Claire showed up 2 minutes before we were

required to start and asked me if I still wanted full custody or if I was willing to

go back to the original court orders. I thought it was odd for her to ask that

seeing as I originally hired her to get full custody she lost the case and has not returned my phone calls in over 7 weeks

Warning: do not use Claire Mehaffey. We hired her in a pinch and were very disappointed. She gave our case little to no attention and lost the case and the appeal due to her lack of attention to the case. After the hearings she would quickly leave us standing in the courthouse without debriefing or answering any questions to the next step. We had unreturned phone calls and a missed appointment (we actually showed up to her office and were told she was not in). Her assistant is rude and acts like you are a bother whenever you call.