Family Law

Carson Messinger offers wide ranging expertise in addressing your needs in this very important and highly personal area.

Michael Nevels Shirley J. Wahl

Carson Messinger’s lawyers understand that a divorce, a custody dispute, or any other family law matter may be the most personal and important legal matters that a person may encounter. Every family law matter receives the high level of attention, commitment, and responsiveness that Carson Messinger lawyers have brought to our clients for over 80 years.

Family law also often involves more than just marital issues. Family law regularly touches on a variety of legal areas in which our firm has long practiced, including real estate, business and corporate law, tax, estate planning and trusts, bankruptcy, fraud, torts, and complex litigation. In addition to their own broad practice experiences, Carson Messinger family law practitioners and their clients are able to draw on the firm’s many other experienced lawyers to address and solve the problems that arise when there are property or business issues in a divorce, or in moving forward after the divorce is completed.

Family law practice areas

  • Divorce

  • Legal separation

  • Child custody

  • Child support

  • Parenting time, visitation, and access to children

  • Spousal maintenance

  • Property and debt division and allocation

  • Enforcement and collection proceedings for child support and spousal maintenance

  • Modification proceedings for custody, visitation, support, and maintenance

  • Out-of-state relocation issues

  • Protective orders

  • Name changes

  • Guardianship proceedings

  • Prenuptial agreements

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