Reviews

WARNING- She will take your case, post pone court dates and push them out to prolong the process until your last payment with her is made. As soon as you make that last payment (months later) all of a sudden your court day will finally come. Your case will be over and you’ll be left with the same terrible end result as the next person who had no lawyer to begin with. My friend and I got charged at the same time for the same thing only difference with our outcome was that I paid this scammer $1800 and he paid nothing. She did NOTHING. Communication was terrible, she will not respond to your calls or texts. I feel she should get her BAR revoked. She is a scammer. If she decides to show, she will show up to court so unprofessionally which is embarrassing. Helen Silva of Seminole/Volusia county is a joke of a “lawyer.” Honestly felt so disappointed and scammed .

We hired Helen based off a recommendation and the original meeting that we had. She stated her approach in the family law case and were very pleased with her outlook. Paid her the $4,000 deposit and she immediately filed the emergency petition. The petition got denied and we have not heard from her since. Have made many attempts to contact her via email, texts, and phone calls and to no avail have we had a response. I would never recommend her to anyone for any type of case!

Hired Helen for divorce. Paid her $5,000 and she stated that would cover up to mediation. Helen has failed to send back acceptance of petition. She emailed me to execute on 8/28 and I emailed back the same day. I never received and email from her confirming she sent it. I followed up several days after with no response. I also told Helen that I wanted to draft a settlement offer, waited several weeks and never received a draft. Same went for the response to petition and response to offer sent by husband when I told her I wanted to proceed. It didnt get done.

We hired Helen to represent my brother on a criminal charge and paid her a $5000 deposit. First she never showed up at the prison stating that she didnt know where 33rd was and then never showed up at his court date stating that she supposedly had to take her car to the mechanic. She never even looked at his case and refuses to return the $5000 we paid her. What really bothers me is the fact that we are the same nationality as her and she would treat us this way. We hispanics are supposed to stand together, not steal from each other. She is unproffesional and should be removed off the bar.

As a law student who has had the opportunity to observe and work with many attorneys both personally, professionally, and academically, I can say that hands down Attorney Helen Silva is one of the best that there is. I found myself in the midst of a 4 year long custody battle when I observed her in court working on another case and knew right away that she was the type of attorney that I needed. Attorney Silva is highly intelligent, competent, and will put forth the effort in your case. I only wish that I had known about her at the beginning of my case because initially I went with several high profile attorneys who neither cared, nor delivered, did more harm than good- and cost me everything. I don't want to forget to mention her assistant Debby who was equally amazing, down to earth, always returned my calls, and answered any questions that I had. I can't say enough good things about Attorney Silva, she is the reason why I have my son.