Westchase Law, P.A.

Focus and practice areas

Family law sits at the center of the work at this Tampa firm. The site lists divorce, child custody, child support, alimony, paternity, adoption, and prenuptial and postnuptial agreements as the core family matters the attorneys handle. Under Florida law, a divorce runs as a dissolution of marriage, and Westchase Law P.A. works on simplified, uncontested, and contested versions of that process.

The firm's work reaches past family cases. It also handles business law, employment law, estate planning, personal injury, and real estate, both residential and commercial. That range covers several areas a household or a small business might need in the same year.

How the family law practice works

Florida sorts divorces into categories, and the firm covers each one. A simplified dissolution applies to couples who agree on terms and meet the state's conditions for it. An uncontested case settles the main issues before a judge signs off. A contested case leaves property, support, or parenting for the court to decide.

Child-related matters follow their own tracks. Custody in Florida runs through parenting plans and time-sharing schedules. Child support follows state guidelines tied to income and the number of overnights with each parent.

High-asset divorces add layers that a simpler split avoids. Business valuations, retirement accounts, and shared real estate all need appraisal before a court can divide them. Kelly M. Albanese's family work covers these disputes, where the numbers matter as much as the parenting schedule.

How the team is built

C. Todd Marks founded Westchase Law P.A. His earlier career covered commercial litigation, bankruptcy, and corporate formation and transactions at firms in Washington, DC, and in Florida. He also founded Westchase Title, a title agency that handles residential and commercial closings along with escrow services.

The founder's title background links to the firm's real estate side. A closing and escrow operation runs next to the legal work, which ties the property practice to the mechanics of a transfer. In my opinion, that pairing is worth noting for anyone weighing a home or commercial purchase.

Named attorneys

Kelly M. Albanese is board certified in marital and family law by the Florida Board of Legal Specialization. That certification requires passing an examination and completing added training. She represents clients in high-conflict and high-asset divorces that involve property, business interests, and parent-child relationships.

Paul M. Phillips brings a finance background to the firm. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst charterholder and holds bachelor's and master's degrees in finance. His work covers bank regulatory law, securities law, financial transactions, and general corporate law.

Bianca Trevisan, Esq., is also an attorney at the firm. Paralegals and office staff support the attorneys on active files.

Business and financial work

On the business side, the firm handles entity formation, business transactions, commercial litigation, and bankruptcy. Those services span the setup of a company, its contracts, its court disputes, and debt reorganization when a business reaches that point. Paul M. Phillips's finance training and the founder's corporate history both feed this part of the work.

Entity formation sets the legal shape of a company, whether a limited liability company or a corporation, and that choice affects tax and liability from the start. Commercial litigation then handles the disputes that come up once a business is running, such as contract disputes and unpaid invoices. Bankruptcy work steps in when debts outrun income and a company needs a court-supervised reset.

The finance background shapes this side of the work. A Chartered Financial Analyst handling securities and bank regulatory law reads financial statements closely, and that skill overlaps with the property valuations and business interests that surface in high-asset family cases.

Employment, estate, and property matters

The employment practice represents employees. The named matters are defamation, discrimination, wrongful termination, and workers' compensation claims. Working on the employee side changes how a firm gathers evidence and tracks deadlines, since those differ from an employer defense.

Each employment claim runs on its own clock. Discrimination and wrongful termination cases often begin with an agency charge before they reach court, and workers' compensation claims move through a separate state system with fixed filing windows. A firm that takes these cases watches those deadlines from the first meeting.

Estate planning, personal injury, and real estate fill out the listed areas. The real estate work covers homes and commercial property, and it connects to the closing and escrow services run through Westchase Title. As a reviewer, I read the mix as a general civil practice built around a family law core.

What the public record shows

The firm names four attorneys and supports them with paralegals and office staff. It links to a Facebook page and an X account in its own site data. The site does not list a founding year on any page.

The clearest signals here are the ones a client can check. A lawyer board certified in marital and family law, a Chartered Financial Analyst on the corporate and securities files, and a founder who also runs the Westchase Title agency are all matters of record. Between the family law certification and the finance credentials, the roster pairs two kinds of depth under one name.

Office and directory details

The firm lists its office at 12027 Whitmarsh Lane in Tampa. Its website is westchaselaw.com, and the directory record provides two telephone numbers: 813-490-5211 and 813-490-5212. The numbers differ only in the final digit, so callers should check which line they intend to use.

The legal name appears as Westchase Law, P.A., while the directory display name omits the comma. That small distinction can matter when someone checks court filings, engagement documents, or other records against the directory entry. The full street address also gives prospective clients a more precise reference point than the firm name alone.

Attorney education

C. Todd Marks earned his JD from George Mason University School of Law in 2001. His individual practice record includes probate in addition to the work described elsewhere in the listing. That entry gives a direct educational reference for the founder and identifies another area attached to his own profile.

Kelly M. Albanese earned her JD from Barry University's Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law in 2010. Her individual practice entries include bankruptcy and debt matters as well as probate. Those entries are distinct from her marital and family law certification and give clients a fuller account of the subjects associated with her directory profile.

Paul M. Phillips earned his JD from Seattle University School of Law in 2006. His individual practice record identifies administrative law and government matters. It also lists securities and investment fraud, a more specific entry than a general reference to financial or corporate work.

Additional practice depth in the attorney records

The individual profiles add detail that the firm-level description does not fully develop. Probate appears in the practice records for both Marks and Albanese. Albanese's record also connects her with bankruptcy and debt, while Phillips has entries for administrative law and government work.

These attorney-level entries help separate a firm's general service list from the subjects assigned to named lawyers. For directory users, that distinction can guide an initial inquiry toward the attorney whose recorded focus most closely matches the matter at hand. The entries describe areas of practice only; they do not promise a particular result or indicate that every attorney handles every type of file.