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The Family Law Practice Group serves individuals in eastern North Carolina and throughout the state.  Our attorneys, with the assistance of local counsel, also represent clients in family law matters throughout the United States.  We offer a broad range of family law legal services, including representation in preparation of premarital and postmarital agreements, separation and property settlement agreements, equitable distribution litigation, child custody and support, and alimony claims.

We frequently represent individuals in complex equitable distribution cases, often involving substantial assets.  Such assets may include ownership interest in valuable real estate and business entities, such as corporations and partnerships.  In these types of cases we work directly with real estate appraisers and business valuation experts to assist us in making appropriate recommendations to our client.
 
Our attorneys also represent clients in alienation of affections and criminal conversation litigation, both in the prosecution of claims against responsible parties and the defense of such claims.
 
Our attorneys have excellent trial skills and more than 48 years of combined broad trial experience.  Attorneys in the Family Law Practice Group bring to their work a range of complementary experience, including the following:  former law clerk to Judge J. Douglas McCullough, North Carolina Court of Appeals, and a former New York State town/village justice and continuing legal education instructor for the New York State Magistrates Association.  Our practical experience is enhanced by our active involvement in professional organizations, including the Family Law Sections of the American and North Carolina Bar Associations, American Association for Justice, and North Carolina Advocates for Justice. One of our attorneys has been included in the publication The Best Lawyers in America since 1995 and one has been recognized in "Super Lawyers" by North Carolina Super Lawyers since 2006.