We help reduce conflict and improve peace between family members who are struggling to resolve family issues. An especially satisfying area of our practice is helping clients realize their dream of adopting a child or helping to place a child on a temporary basis. Clifford Family Law helps facilitate adoptions and custody to bring well-suited children into your home and life.
Separation, divorce, and family strife can be painful and difficult to confront, unless you have sound legal guidance. Clifford Family Law helps adoptive parents seeking to intervene in a dependency case by guiding them through the dependency system and finalizing the adoption. Having the right attorney working on your behalf and guiding the legal process to make it easier is ultimately the best choice you can make for your future.
Separation, divorce, and family strife can be painful and difficult to confront, unless you have sound legal guidance. Clifford Family Law helps adoptive parents seeking to intervene in a dependency case by guiding them through the dependency system and finalizing the adoption. Having the right attorney working on your behalf and guiding the legal process to make it easier is ultimately the best choice you can make for your future.
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Attorney Lori W. Clifford has been practicing family and marital law and handling difficult divorce, adoption, custody, and intervention dependency matters to safeguard families for 34 years. She established her own private law practice in 2010. Her primary areas of practice are all areas of adoption law (family, foreign and interstate), as well as family, marital, and intervention dependency law.
One of the most satisfying parts of our practice is in safeguarding families through adoptions and custody matters. Clifford Family Law provides affordable professional legal services to birth parents, grandparents, step-parents, and others in domestic, interstate, and domesticated adoptions. There are many issues that present risks and potential breakdown of the process.
If you are in a marriage that's no longer fulfilling your needs, talk to us. We're experienced in helping families solve problems and move forward in a cooperative way that starts the healing process for everyone, including the children. In some cases, a post-nuptial agreement may be an avenue to avoid divorce and reduce tensions.
Intervention Dependency is authorized by Florida Statute 63.082. When a dependency case is brought by the Department of Children & Family Services, a birth parent may agree that they wish their child adopted by another person. The birth parent(s) have the right to choose an appropriate and qualified adoptive parent or parents for their own child.
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Mary Sagert
Aug 16, 2021
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Monica R.
Oct 24, 2020
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Missy the receptionist is absolutely the most vile unprofessional individual. Cut me off every time I tried to speak. Did not listen to my questions. She should not be the face of a family law practice. She had the audacity to say to me “If you want to make an appointment you can. If not Ha Ha Ha keep dialing for other firms” Ha Ha Ha??? Yes. She said that.
She never answered if the the firm represented my type of sensitive case. Then she resorted to name calling? And told me I was very rude. I didn’t appreciate her aggressive and belittling demeanor. Don’t waste your time or money here
She never answered if the the firm represented my type of sensitive case. Then she resorted to name calling? And told me I was very rude. I didn’t appreciate her aggressive and belittling demeanor. Don’t waste your time or money here
Lucy O.
Oct 21, 2020
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Lori is the best lawyer I could have possibly hired for my case. She is VERY knowledgeable and current on custody and adoption laws. She does everything by the book and crosses all her T's to ensure that the judge does not dismiss the case and gives a verdict quickly. I am impressed with how much she went out of her way for me, especially it being such an emotional case. Come to find out, she has an amazing reputation with not only her peers but with judges and the Lee county system. Needless to say, I won my case and was able to proceed happily with my family. There is no price for peace of mind
Rebecca Soto Ramirez
Sep 21, 2020
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Trina Ludwig
Sep 06, 2020
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I hired Lori to help me with a custody case and was initially very pleased with her work. When she made a mistake on our paperwork, that she filed with the courts, she gave us a full refund and then offered to "help" in writing up a simple notarized agreement because of her mistake; which I accepted. After 3 weeks of being a "new mom", doing all the guardianship/custody research and decision making away from my husband and home, I was emotionally exhausted. When I went to pick up my paperwork from Lori she ended up charging me for 3 hours. I was so shocked I just paid it and left. After a good
Jessica Horne
Aug 19, 2020
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Lindsy Lind
Jul 12, 2020
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Norida Fetzner
Nov 06, 2019
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I have nothing but wonderful things to say. Lori is great at explaining things and how the process for everything works and how long it should take. We had tried doing this on our own but was recommended to call Lori and my husband and I are so grateful we did. Missy the receptionist is so nice and always has a smile when I see her.
Adriana White
Sep 27, 2019
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Kim Bright
Nov 20, 2018
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Pamela Marshall
Sep 15, 2018
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Aug 09, 2016
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