Practice Areas
A Single Focus, Practiced Deeply
Sixteen focused practice areas within a single discipline, family law and domestic relations, handled by attorneys with more than 36 years of experience.
Divorce & Family Law Practice Areas
Contested Divorce
A contested divorce is a divorce where the spouses cannot agree on one or more major issues: property, support, or parenting.
Learn More →Uncontested Divorce
An uncontested divorce is one where both spouses agree on every term before the case is filed.
Learn More →Dissolution
A dissolution is Ohio's no-fault, fully agreed path to ending a marriage: both spouses negotiate every term first, then file jointly and finish, often within ninety days.
Learn More →High-Income Divorce
In a high-income divorce, support and property turn on what income really is: salary, bonus, commissions, equity awards, distributions, deferred compensation.
Learn More →High-Asset Divorce
A high-asset divorce is decided by valuation, characterization, and tracing: what exists, what it is worth, and what is marital versus separate.
Learn More →Complex Divorce Litigation
Some divorces cannot be settled on fair terms: valuations are disputed, conduct is contested, jurisdictions conflict, or the other side simply will not be reasonable.
Learn More →Property Division
Ohio is an equitable distribution state, not a strict 50/50 state: marital property is presumed to divide equally, and courts adjust that split for separate property and the other statutory factors.
Learn More →Child Custody & Parenting Time
Ohio allocates parental rights and responsibilities based on one standard: the best interest of the child.
Learn More →Divorce Involving a Business
When a business is in the marital estate, the divorce has two jobs: value it fairly and keep it running.
Learn More →Post-Decree Modifications & Enforcement
Life changes after the decree: incomes rise and fall, jobs move, children's needs evolve, and sometimes the other party simply stops complying.
Learn More →Grandparents' Rights
Ohio law allows grandparents to seek court-ordered visitation in specific circumstances, most commonly during or after their child's divorce, when a parent is deceased, or when the child was born to unmarried parents.
Learn More →Spousal Support
Spousal support, what most people call alimony, is not a formula in Ohio.
Learn More →Civil Protection Order (CPO)
To get a civil protection order in Ohio, you file a petition in your county's court of common pleas, usually its domestic relations division; a temporary order can issue the same day, and a full hearing follows within about a week to ten court days.
Learn More →Prenuptial Agreements
A prenuptial agreement settles, in advance, how property and support would be handled if the marriage ends.
Learn More →Legal Separation
A legal separation resolves everything a divorce does, property division, support, parenting, except the marriage itself remains intact.
Learn More →Annulment
An annulment declares that a marriage was never valid, on specific statutory grounds such as fraud, bigamy, underage marriage, incompetence, or a marriage never consummated.
Learn More →Matters we refer out
To stay exclusively focused, we do not accept standalone child support cases, mediation, cps (children's protective services) cases, domestic violence defense. If your matter overlaps one of these, we will say so candidly at your consultation.