Ky Koch
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Licensed for 11 years
Law Degree
Awards
Primary Practice Area
Divorce and separation
Language
English
About
Jennifer F. Meister joined Older Lundy Alvarez & Koch in September 2016 as an attorney in the firm’s Marital and Family law practice group. In addition to dissolution of marriage and modification cases, Jennifer also handles dependency and termination of parental rights cases, including the complex issues that arise for licensed foster parents, relatives, and non-relative caregivers; adoptions; temporary relative custody cases; and guardian ad litem cases.Jennifer began her legal career in 2010 as a clerk for the City Attorney of Traverse City in Michigan. In 2011, Jennifer moved to Florida and began working for the Department of Children and Families in the Children’s Legal Services division, where she prosecuted dependency and termination of parental rights cases and rose quickly to senior and supervisory roles as her passion for child advocacy grew. In 2013, Jennifer joined the Office of the Attorney General where she litigated complex cases involving dependency, termination of parental rights, domestic violence injunctions, adoption, and paternity matters. Jennifer also handled several complex termination of parental rights appeals as a senior member of the appellate team.Jennifer graduated cum laude from Florida State University with a Bachelor’s Degree in Finance. She earned her Juris Doctor degree from Fordham University School of Law. Jennifer is an active member of the Stann W. Givens Family Law American Inn of Court of Tampa and the Family Law division of the Hillsborough County Bar Association. Jennifer is also a member of the Emerging Leaders Program with the Tampa Bay Chamber of Commerce and Working Women of Tampa Bay.Jennifer was born and raised in Queens, New York. She currently resides in Riverview, Florida, with her husband and twin boys.
Practices Areas
Litigation
Divorce and separation
Family
Domestic Violence
Language
English
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Reviews
Ms. Meister is an incredibly knowledgeable attorney that is easy to work with. She values opinions and is able to understand what is in best interest of her clients, and her cases as a whole. Strongly recommend her as an attorney.
She was very thorough and worked hard on my behalf.. She left no stone unturned if she thought it would benefit me.
I found Jennifer to be amazingly responsive, easy to work with and extremely practical. It was very reassuring to know that she was not just providing sound legal advice but also helping and offering great advice period. She was an excellent resource and I have referred her to many others, which in my mind is the ultimate compliment to her personally and professionally, which I was happy to do.
The compassion and attention to detail that Jenn afforded my case was instramental to my end goal of being a continued presence in my child's life. She was not intimidated by the missteps made by my previous counsel and agressively worked through the process to achieve a just and fair outcome for both myself and my child. Her expertise and diligent forethought was an invaluable asset that I will always be grateful to have aquired at a time when i would have otherwise been helpless to fight for my rights as a concerned father. I owe my sincere appreciation to this woman for the numerous hours she spent consumed by my situation to ensure a suitable outcome was achieved. Lastly, her court room demeanor was only surpassed by her thorough and knowledgable writing in the many filings and motions that she conducted. A true and complete professional and master of her trade.
When i was at the point of feeling as though I had my back to the wall and had no resources to help me. I was put in contact with Ben Older and his team of highly qualified lawyers. One of whom was Jenn Meister, and I had the privilege of having her being assigned my divorce case. I had some very delicate details involving my minor children that was of my utmost concern, Jenn made that her top priority during the whole process. Jenn I can not thank you enough for taking this case and handling in the way you did. You made me feel as though I was your only client(although you had many going on at the same time) and gave me that pointed attention that made me feel at ease. I truly appreciate you and your dedication not only to the law but also for each client you serve and what is in their best interest. Jenn thank you again for all you do, I will highly recommend you to anyone going through a difficult trying family situation.
Jennifer was amazing. After a lackluster experience with another attorney at Older, Lundy, and Alvarez, I decided to give them another shot after having met Jennifer personally. She was more than attentive in the initial consultation, and went to great lengths to ensure she understood all the intricacies of my case(which took a great deal of time and effort),and made sure that I was comfortable with the outlined game plan before I left. We encountered several issues along the way due to a difficult opposing counsel, yet Jennifer always made sure that my interests, and the interests of my children were put first. She was a pit bull when she needed to be, and made herself readily available to me whenever any issue arose(even on holidays). I cannot convey how appreciative I am of her work, and the personal attention and care she gave to my situation along the way. I CANNOT recommend her highly enough.
My wife and I worked with Jennifer Meister on a family law matter. The issue involved a parenting plan, and the case was brought on by our son's biological father. Jennifer is a smart and competent woman. However she is also distracted and made it clear that we were not her priority, except when it came to billing us. Jennifer conducted a marketing photoshoot during my wife's zoom mediation, meaning she was distracted and not present for much of the mediation. This mediation was covering our son's parenting agreement with his biological father, and it was the most important thing in the world to us. Clearly it was not that important to Jennifer. During the mediation, Jennifer actually attempted to tank the mediation and told my wife it's not going to work out very early on, which per my wife was in no way the situation. We believe she did that so that we would have to move to a court case, which would continue to rack up bills. My wife was able to save it and reach an agreed upon parenting agreement thankfully, although a second mediation needed to be scheduled because Jennifer had to leave the first before it could be finalized to watch her child (which I would understand, except for the fact that she was absent for much of it doing a photoshoot, which is beyond ridiculous, and the plan could have been wrapped up in one mediation if she had actually set that time aside in her calendar). The second mediation racked the bills up further. Since reaching that parenting agreement (which we had paid approximately $10,000 to Jennifer to reach it), we have now been charged another $6k just to recalculate child support. Every two weeks her firm sends us another retainer for $4,500, when at this point it is very minor work left over. It looks like we are going to be charged $10k for them to work through a financial affidavit and calculate child support per normal guidelines. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? They also charge us a minimum of $35 for every email sent, even if it's two sentences, and for a 10 minute phone call expect to pay close to $100. Jennifer even charged us $350 for legal research about changing a minor’s name. She’s a family law attorney and she’s charging us to research family law?? Should we pay for her law school also? In addition to Jennifer’s ridiculous billing and complete lack of caring, she also appeared to change her mind frequently on best strategic course of action. She strongly discouraged us from getting GAL involved early on and said it will cost us a lot of money. Then 2 days before the mediation she said we should just cancel the mediation and get GAL involved. We were very confused and decided to keep the mediation, but we now realize it was because the mediation conflicted with her marketing photoshoot. Jennifer is money hungry and does not care about you. If you are not extremely wealthy, steer clear. We fired Jennifer before finalizing child support because she is terrible. We would not have been able to finalize the parenting plan at all if we hadn’t put forth countless hours of work on our own. She certainly didn’t get it done for us.
Ms. Meister is an incredibly knowledgeable attorney that is easy to work with. She values opinions and is able to understand what is in best interest of her clients, and her cases as a whole. Strongly recommend her as an attorney.
She was very thorough and worked hard on my behalf.. She left no stone unturned if she thought it would benefit me.
I found Jennifer to be amazingly responsive, easy to work with and extremely practical. It was very reassuring to know that she was not just providing sound legal advice but also helping and offering great advice period. She was an excellent resource and I have referred her to many others, which in my mind is the ultimate compliment to her personally and professionally, which I was happy to do.
The compassion and attention to detail that Jenn afforded my case was instramental to my end goal of being a continued presence in my child's life. She was not intimidated by the missteps made by my previous counsel and agressively worked through the process to achieve a just and fair outcome for both myself and my child. Her expertise and diligent forethought was an invaluable asset that I will always be grateful to have aquired at a time when i would have otherwise been helpless to fight for my rights as a concerned father. I owe my sincere appreciation to this woman for the numerous hours she spent consumed by my situation to ensure a suitable outcome was achieved. Lastly, her court room demeanor was only surpassed by her thorough and knowledgable writing in the many filings and motions that she conducted. A true and complete professional and master of her trade.
When i was at the point of feeling as though I had my back to the wall and had no resources to help me. I was put in contact with Ben Older and his team of highly qualified lawyers. One of whom was Jenn Meister, and I had the privilege of having her being assigned my divorce case. I had some very delicate details involving my minor children that was of my utmost concern, Jenn made that her top priority during the whole process. Jenn I can not thank you enough for taking this case and handling in the way you did. You made me feel as though I was your only client(although you had many going on at the same time) and gave me that pointed attention that made me feel at ease. I truly appreciate you and your dedication not only to the law but also for each client you serve and what is in their best interest. Jenn thank you again for all you do, I will highly recommend you to anyone going through a difficult trying family situation.
Jennifer was amazing. After a lackluster experience with another attorney at Older, Lundy, and Alvarez, I decided to give them another shot after having met Jennifer personally. She was more than attentive in the initial consultation, and went to great lengths to ensure she understood all the intricacies of my case(which took a great deal of time and effort),and made sure that I was comfortable with the outlined game plan before I left. We encountered several issues along the way due to a difficult opposing counsel, yet Jennifer always made sure that my interests, and the interests of my children were put first. She was a pit bull when she needed to be, and made herself readily available to me whenever any issue arose(even on holidays). I cannot convey how appreciative I am of her work, and the personal attention and care she gave to my situation along the way. I CANNOT recommend her highly enough.
My wife and I worked with Jennifer Meister on a family law matter. The issue involved a parenting plan, and the case was brought on by our son's biological father. Jennifer is a smart and competent woman. However she is also distracted and made it clear that we were not her priority, except when it came to billing us. Jennifer conducted a marketing photoshoot during my wife's zoom mediation, meaning she was distracted and not present for much of the mediation. This mediation was covering our son's parenting agreement with his biological father, and it was the most important thing in the world to us. Clearly it was not that important to Jennifer. During the mediation, Jennifer actually attempted to tank the mediation and told my wife it's not going to work out very early on, which per my wife was in no way the situation. We believe she did that so that we would have to move to a court case, which would continue to rack up bills. My wife was able to save it and reach an agreed upon parenting agreement thankfully, although a second mediation needed to be scheduled because Jennifer had to leave the first before it could be finalized to watch her child (which I would understand, except for the fact that she was absent for much of it doing a photoshoot, which is beyond ridiculous, and the plan could have been wrapped up in one mediation if she had actually set that time aside in her calendar). The second mediation racked the bills up further. Since reaching that parenting agreement (which we had paid approximately $10,000 to Jennifer to reach it), we have now been charged another $6k just to recalculate child support. Every two weeks her firm sends us another retainer for $4,500, when at this point it is very minor work left over. It looks like we are going to be charged $10k for them to work through a financial affidavit and calculate child support per normal guidelines. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? They also charge us a minimum of $35 for every email sent, even if it's two sentences, and for a 10 minute phone call expect to pay close to $100. Jennifer even charged us $350 for legal research about changing a minor’s name. She’s a family law attorney and she’s charging us to research family law?? Should we pay for her law school also? In addition to Jennifer’s ridiculous billing and complete lack of caring, she also appeared to change her mind frequently on best strategic course of action. She strongly discouraged us from getting GAL involved early on and said it will cost us a lot of money. Then 2 days before the mediation she said we should just cancel the mediation and get GAL involved. We were very confused and decided to keep the mediation, but we now realize it was because the mediation conflicted with her marketing photoshoot. Jennifer is money hungry and does not care about you. If you are not extremely wealthy, steer clear. We fired Jennifer before finalizing child support because she is terrible. We would not have been able to finalize the parenting plan at all if we hadn’t put forth countless hours of work on our own. She certainly didn’t get it done for us.
Ms. Meister is an incredibly knowledgeable attorney that is easy to work with. She values opinions and is able to understand what is in best interest of her clients, and her cases as a whole. Strongly recommend her as an attorney.
She was very thorough and worked hard on my behalf.. She left no stone unturned if she thought it would benefit me.
I found Jennifer to be amazingly responsive, easy to work with and extremely practical. It was very reassuring to know that she was not just providing sound legal advice but also helping and offering great advice period. She was an excellent resource and I have referred her to many others, which in my mind is the ultimate compliment to her personally and professionally, which I was happy to do.
The compassion and attention to detail that Jenn afforded my case was instramental to my end goal of being a continued presence in my child's life. She was not intimidated by the missteps made by my previous counsel and agressively worked through the process to achieve a just and fair outcome for both myself and my child. Her expertise and diligent forethought was an invaluable asset that I will always be grateful to have aquired at a time when i would have otherwise been helpless to fight for my rights as a concerned father. I owe my sincere appreciation to this woman for the numerous hours she spent consumed by my situation to ensure a suitable outcome was achieved. Lastly, her court room demeanor was only surpassed by her thorough and knowledgable writing in the many filings and motions that she conducted. A true and complete professional and master of her trade.
When i was at the point of feeling as though I had my back to the wall and had no resources to help me. I was put in contact with Ben Older and his team of highly qualified lawyers. One of whom was Jenn Meister, and I had the privilege of having her being assigned my divorce case. I had some very delicate details involving my minor children that was of my utmost concern, Jenn made that her top priority during the whole process. Jenn I can not thank you enough for taking this case and handling in the way you did. You made me feel as though I was your only client(although you had many going on at the same time) and gave me that pointed attention that made me feel at ease. I truly appreciate you and your dedication not only to the law but also for each client you serve and what is in their best interest. Jenn thank you again for all you do, I will highly recommend you to anyone going through a difficult trying family situation.
Jennifer was amazing. After a lackluster experience with another attorney at Older, Lundy, and Alvarez, I decided to give them another shot after having met Jennifer personally. She was more than attentive in the initial consultation, and went to great lengths to ensure she understood all the intricacies of my case(which took a great deal of time and effort),and made sure that I was comfortable with the outlined game plan before I left. We encountered several issues along the way due to a difficult opposing counsel, yet Jennifer always made sure that my interests, and the interests of my children were put first. She was a pit bull when she needed to be, and made herself readily available to me whenever any issue arose(even on holidays). I cannot convey how appreciative I am of her work, and the personal attention and care she gave to my situation along the way. I CANNOT recommend her highly enough.
My wife and I worked with Jennifer Meister on a family law matter. The issue involved a parenting plan, and the case was brought on by our son's biological father. Jennifer is a smart and competent woman. However she is also distracted and made it clear that we were not her priority, except when it came to billing us. Jennifer conducted a marketing photoshoot during my wife's zoom mediation, meaning she was distracted and not present for much of the mediation. This mediation was covering our son's parenting agreement with his biological father, and it was the most important thing in the world to us. Clearly it was not that important to Jennifer. During the mediation, Jennifer actually attempted to tank the mediation and told my wife it's not going to work out very early on, which per my wife was in no way the situation. We believe she did that so that we would have to move to a court case, which would continue to rack up bills. My wife was able to save it and reach an agreed upon parenting agreement thankfully, although a second mediation needed to be scheduled because Jennifer had to leave the first before it could be finalized to watch her child (which I would understand, except for the fact that she was absent for much of it doing a photoshoot, which is beyond ridiculous, and the plan could have been wrapped up in one mediation if she had actually set that time aside in her calendar). The second mediation racked the bills up further. Since reaching that parenting agreement (which we had paid approximately $10,000 to Jennifer to reach it), we have now been charged another $6k just to recalculate child support. Every two weeks her firm sends us another retainer for $4,500, when at this point it is very minor work left over. It looks like we are going to be charged $10k for them to work through a financial affidavit and calculate child support per normal guidelines. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? They also charge us a minimum of $35 for every email sent, even if it's two sentences, and for a 10 minute phone call expect to pay close to $100. Jennifer even charged us $350 for legal research about changing a minor’s name. She’s a family law attorney and she’s charging us to research family law?? Should we pay for her law school also? In addition to Jennifer’s ridiculous billing and complete lack of caring, she also appeared to change her mind frequently on best strategic course of action. She strongly discouraged us from getting GAL involved early on and said it will cost us a lot of money. Then 2 days before the mediation she said we should just cancel the mediation and get GAL involved. We were very confused and decided to keep the mediation, but we now realize it was because the mediation conflicted with her marketing photoshoot. Jennifer is money hungry and does not care about you. If you are not extremely wealthy, steer clear. We fired Jennifer before finalizing child support because she is terrible. We would not have been able to finalize the parenting plan at all if we hadn’t put forth countless hours of work on our own. She certainly didn’t get it done for us.
Ms. Meister is an incredibly knowledgeable attorney that is easy to work with. She values opinions and is able to understand what is in best interest of her clients, and her cases as a whole. Strongly recommend her as an attorney.
She was very thorough and worked hard on my behalf.. She left no stone unturned if she thought it would benefit me.
I found Jennifer to be amazingly responsive, easy to work with and extremely practical. It was very reassuring to know that she was not just providing sound legal advice but also helping and offering great advice period. She was an excellent resource and I have referred her to many others, which in my mind is the ultimate compliment to her personally and professionally, which I was happy to do.
The compassion and attention to detail that Jenn afforded my case was instramental to my end goal of being a continued presence in my child's life. She was not intimidated by the missteps made by my previous counsel and agressively worked through the process to achieve a just and fair outcome for both myself and my child. Her expertise and diligent forethought was an invaluable asset that I will always be grateful to have aquired at a time when i would have otherwise been helpless to fight for my rights as a concerned father. I owe my sincere appreciation to this woman for the numerous hours she spent consumed by my situation to ensure a suitable outcome was achieved. Lastly, her court room demeanor was only surpassed by her thorough and knowledgable writing in the many filings and motions that she conducted. A true and complete professional and master of her trade.
When i was at the point of feeling as though I had my back to the wall and had no resources to help me. I was put in contact with Ben Older and his team of highly qualified lawyers. One of whom was Jenn Meister, and I had the privilege of having her being assigned my divorce case. I had some very delicate details involving my minor children that was of my utmost concern, Jenn made that her top priority during the whole process. Jenn I can not thank you enough for taking this case and handling in the way you did. You made me feel as though I was your only client(although you had many going on at the same time) and gave me that pointed attention that made me feel at ease. I truly appreciate you and your dedication not only to the law but also for each client you serve and what is in their best interest. Jenn thank you again for all you do, I will highly recommend you to anyone going through a difficult trying family situation.
Jennifer was amazing. After a lackluster experience with another attorney at Older, Lundy, and Alvarez, I decided to give them another shot after having met Jennifer personally. She was more than attentive in the initial consultation, and went to great lengths to ensure she understood all the intricacies of my case(which took a great deal of time and effort),and made sure that I was comfortable with the outlined game plan before I left. We encountered several issues along the way due to a difficult opposing counsel, yet Jennifer always made sure that my interests, and the interests of my children were put first. She was a pit bull when she needed to be, and made herself readily available to me whenever any issue arose(even on holidays). I cannot convey how appreciative I am of her work, and the personal attention and care she gave to my situation along the way. I CANNOT recommend her highly enough.
My wife and I worked with Jennifer Meister on a family law matter. The issue involved a parenting plan, and the case was brought on by our son's biological father. Jennifer is a smart and competent woman. However she is also distracted and made it clear that we were not her priority, except when it came to billing us. Jennifer conducted a marketing photoshoot during my wife's zoom mediation, meaning she was distracted and not present for much of the mediation. This mediation was covering our son's parenting agreement with his biological father, and it was the most important thing in the world to us. Clearly it was not that important to Jennifer. During the mediation, Jennifer actually attempted to tank the mediation and told my wife it's not going to work out very early on, which per my wife was in no way the situation. We believe she did that so that we would have to move to a court case, which would continue to rack up bills. My wife was able to save it and reach an agreed upon parenting agreement thankfully, although a second mediation needed to be scheduled because Jennifer had to leave the first before it could be finalized to watch her child (which I would understand, except for the fact that she was absent for much of it doing a photoshoot, which is beyond ridiculous, and the plan could have been wrapped up in one mediation if she had actually set that time aside in her calendar). The second mediation racked the bills up further. Since reaching that parenting agreement (which we had paid approximately $10,000 to Jennifer to reach it), we have now been charged another $6k just to recalculate child support. Every two weeks her firm sends us another retainer for $4,500, when at this point it is very minor work left over. It looks like we are going to be charged $10k for them to work through a financial affidavit and calculate child support per normal guidelines. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?? They also charge us a minimum of $35 for every email sent, even if it's two sentences, and for a 10 minute phone call expect to pay close to $100. Jennifer even charged us $350 for legal research about changing a minor’s name. She’s a family law attorney and she’s charging us to research family law?? Should we pay for her law school also? In addition to Jennifer’s ridiculous billing and complete lack of caring, she also appeared to change her mind frequently on best strategic course of action. She strongly discouraged us from getting GAL involved early on and said it will cost us a lot of money. Then 2 days before the mediation she said we should just cancel the mediation and get GAL involved. We were very confused and decided to keep the mediation, but we now realize it was because the mediation conflicted with her marketing photoshoot. Jennifer is money hungry and does not care about you. If you are not extremely wealthy, steer clear. We fired Jennifer before finalizing child support because she is terrible. We would not have been able to finalize the parenting plan at all if we hadn’t put forth countless hours of work on our own. She certainly didn’t get it done for us.