I am currently the Managing Partner/Owner of the Bates-Buchanan & Savitsky Law Group, P.A., a boutique law firm handling cases as a Mediator in Family Law and Circuit Civil Foreclosure Mediation in State Court and Bankruptcy, as well as Bankruptcy (Chapter 13 Mortgage Modification Mediation), Estate Planning (Wills, Living Wills, Trusts), /Probate, Animal Law, Foreclosure Defense, Civil Mediation, Counsumer/Housing, Family Law/Dependency/Kinship Adoption. I have also been a Foreclosure Defense contract attorney at Gulfcoast Legal Services, Bradenton, Florida office. I am the immediate past managing attorney, with GLS. I had been with GLS since September of 2006, but have been practicing law since September 1999, for legal serivces and primarily practices domestic violence family law. I have been practicing elder law since 2006, helping Seniors with defense of consumer, housing, landlord/tenant issues and providing help with foreclosures and estate planning. In 2011 I opened by own firm and have specialized in Bankruptcy, Estate Planning, Probate, Consumer Defense Law, Foreclosure Defense and Family Law.

I am also a Certified Family Law and Circuit Civil Mediator with special training in Foreclosure Mortgage Modification Mediation. I am also certified as a Collaborate Family Law Attorney. Collaborate Family Law is a non-litigation path to resolving family issues and creating peace. For more information go to nextgenerationdivorce.com.

I offer a consultation for $75.00, but if you hire me or my firm then the consultation fee is credited towards your retainer.