Practice Areas

• Family Law
• Divorce
• Child Custody & Support Issues
• Juvenile Delinquency & Deprivation
• Criminal Law
• Drug Offenses
• Traffic Violations
• Wills and Estates
• Atlanta Mediation Attorney
• Ley Familiar
• Divorcio
• Ley Criminal
• Violaciones de Trafico

Working for Your Children's Interests

The legal issues affecting your relationship with your children should be handled with the greatest possible care and diligence. Contact me to schedule an initial consultation about your concerns.

A Lawyer for Child Support Cases

It is important to the state of Georgia and to me, personally, that children get adequate financial support from their parents. I can help clients with any and all child support issues.

Child support determinations are made during the divorce process. They can also be part of legitimation or paternity actions, where the child's parents are not married and one or both parents seek to establish the father's rights and responsibilities.

After a child support determination is made, it can be modified when there are new circumstances such as a change in either parent's income, a remarriage or the birth of a new child. Child support obligations must also sometimes be enforced through legal action. I have the skill and experience to help clients with any of these circumstances.

Seeking Custody and Visitation Solutions

When a child's parents are divorced or are unmarried, they are both still parents. In the vast majority of cases, it is in the best interest of children for both parents to play a role in caring for and making decisions about them.

In Georgia, the child's best interests are the legal standard for child custody and visitation decisions, whether made during a divorce or as part of a legitimation or paternity action. Considerations like safety, education and health care can go into determining who gets primary custody. I will help you negotiate or argue in court for your preferred arrangement.

Child custody and visitation determinations can be modified when circumstances relevant to the determination change. It is sometimes also necessary to go to court to enforce child custody and visitation.

Whether you are concerned with determination, modification or enforcement of child custody and support, contact me to get a skilled attorney on your side.

At The Law Offices of James M. Miskell, P.C., we represent clients in Lawrenceville, Georgia, and throughout the region, including the communities of Atlanta, Athens, Gainesville, Duluth, Norcross, Lilburn, Grayson, Snellville, Dacula, Sugar Hill, Loganville, Monroe and Winder; and other locations in Gwinnett County, Fulton County, DeKalb County, Rockdale County, Dawson County, Forsyth County, Hall County, Walton County, Barrow County and Jackson County.