Kent Amo | Naples Family Lawyer

• Children's Home Society of Florida Advisory Board SWFL
  2013 - Present
• Charity for Change Advisory Board
  2011 - Present
• Collier County Bar Association, Family Law Section Member
  2010 - Present
• American Inns of Court Associate Member
  2007 - 2010

I was retained on a payment plan by an African-American father of a toddler in Ft. Myers, Florida to defend against the mother's creative attempt to gain sole custody in a long-term effort to relocate the child out-of-state. The father did not have much advance notice of the hearing on the Mother's Supplemental Petition to Modify the Parenting Plan. We prevailed in style, demonstrating how inconsistent Mother's testimony was with the true family history.

Successful' is a subjective term. I've succeeded in becoming an attorney that has accomplished the goals of nearly all my clients (whether to prevail or to discover facts), but my practice is struggling to grow with word-of-mouth as my primary source of client referrals.

Clients should be inclined to hire an attorney they know demonstrates competency and maintains rapport with clients, colleagues and judges. Clients should be looking for expertise and efficiency before rapport. In my experience, it is the strong recommendation of a trusted confidant that drives the decision to retain counsel.

Local knowledge is very helpful in managing the logistics of setting hearings and accomplishing litigation, but otherwise, in today's age of technology, most everything substantively required for motion practice can be accomplished remotely.

A free phone consultation gives us the opportunity to initially define the area of practice and explore the fact pattern before determining whether it is essential or helpful to meet.

Party names on both sides of dispute, basic BASIC BASIC facts (typically chronologically), and the scheduled availability for a face-to-face meeting.

I am very well-rounded in my experience as an employee of the court system, having worked as a staff attorney and neutral mediator for a significant amount of time at a relatively young age, so I am generally able to see both sides of a dispute and guage the expectations of a client very early on in a case. Where client satisfaction is key, it helps to manage the client's expectations. I do this in a very straightforward style. I am technologically available and often able to establish rapport with my clients.

Accomplishing the client's wishes by outperforming expectations.

My children, Travel, Snow Skiing, & Scuba Diving.

I sit on the board of two charities, Charity for Change, one that teaches children about philanthropy and the other, Children's Home Society of Florida, the oldest children's charity in Florida which aids children in difficult situations. I have previously participated in Rotary and Florida Justice Teaching, teaching children about the U.S. Constitution, notions of justice and the U.S. legal system.