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Serena Baldacchino

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Meet Serena Baldacchino

Brooklyn, NY born, and Daytona Beach raised, Serena is a seasoned litigator who has practiced law in Florida since 2006. Serena began her legal career prosecuting criminal cases as an Assistant State Attorney for the Seventh Judicial Circuit before going on to represent the best interest of Florida’s abused, neglected, and abandoned children as a Senior Guardian ad Litem Attorney in Volusia County. Serena then focused on practicing Family Law for several years, representing clients in dissolution of marriage, paternity, modification, and injunction for protection actions before joining the Family Law Practice Group at the Rice Law Firm.

Serena earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from Stetson University and her Juris Doctorate from the University of Florida Levin College of Law, where she was a teaching assistant in Legal Research and Writing and Appellate Advocacy.
Licenses: Admitted to the Florida Bar, 2005

Serena Baldacchino's Blog

If you are considering, or already involved in, a Florida Dissolution of Marriage with minor children or Paternity action, you might wonder whether the courts favor mothers when it comes to parental responsibility for, and timesharing with, the minor children.
When you are pro se (meaning “for oneself”) in a legal action, you represent yourself directly in the case. In Florida Family Law cases, there is no law requiring representation by an attorney, so you certainly can represent yourself - but should you?