Family Law

The Phyllis Deeb Law Office – Family Law Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky

Family law is a broad topic that covers many issues that modern families face when a marriage dissolves. Our office focuses its practice entirely on family law issues, providing you with highly competent legal services. If you wish, you can directly provide our office with more information about your case by filling out our online contact form or by calling us at (502) 585-4358.

Divorce and Marital Dissolution
Divorce, by itself, simply means the end of a marriage. However, the real issues that divorce creates are oriented around property division and any children of the marriage. Our office provides full-service in this area of family law. We will help you resolve every issue that you are facing when you are considering divorce, including child support, spousal support, child custody and visitation.

Property Division, Spousal Support and Alimony
Kentucky uses equitable division to separate all property accumulated during the course of a marriage, including houses, cars, pensions, 401k's and stocks. Equitable distribution means that property is divided according to the financial resources of each partner of the marriage, while taking into account their non-monetary contributions to the marriage. It is this area in which representation by a competent attorney can make the biggest difference in the outcome of a divorce proceeding.

Collaborative Law
This is a non-litigation method of resolving any type of family law dispute. In collaborative law, the parties to a divorce and their lawyers sign an agreement that they will not resort to litigation to resolve their disputes. Then they negotiate a mutually acceptable divorce agreement that is converted into a binding contract. This is particularly helpful to clients who wish to avoid the 'scorched earth' litigation that can come out of a divorce trial. It preserves goodwill among the parties and can serve as the basis for conducting a mature working relationship in the future. It also allows children to develop self-esteem from their concept of their parents working together to end conflict and move forward.

Mediation
The concept of mediation is similar to that of collaborative law. However, the mediator must serve impartially, while the parties and their counsel are still adversarial, whereas in collaborative law, both parties and their counsel are a “team.”

Paternity and Child Support
Our office will help you draft a pleadings for paternity testing in order to establish parentage of a child. This is a necessary step to establishing ongoing child support obligations as well as the right to be kept informed of and to be consulted on other major issues in a child's life.

Stepparent Adoptions
Our office also handles stepparent adoptions for blended families in which one spouse wishes to adopt the other's children.

Domestic Violence
We will help you gain protection from an abusive domestic partner through emergency protection orders (EPO's) and domestic protective orders. Do not wait until it is too late to ask for help in this important matter. Call our office at (502) 585-4358.

You can contact a family law lawyer by filling out our online contact form to provide us with more information or by calling (502) 585-4358.

Phyllis Deeb Law Offices
730 West Market Street
Suite 400
Louisville, KY 40202-2723
Phone: (502) 585-4358
Fax: (502) 589-3515
E-Mail:   Contact Us

*Our office is conveniently located to serve clients in Louisville, Kentucky, as well as Jefferson County and Oldham County.

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