About
Practice Area Breakdown:
80% Family Law - separation, divorce, child custody, infant support, spousal aid, equitable distribution
20% Estate Planning - wills, living wills, trusts, power of attorneys
I am a native of Charlotte and graduated from Myers Park High School. After university and law faculty, I moved returned to Charlotte and served as a police officer, and as an officer in the N.C. Army National Guard. I focus my regulation exercise in most cases on own family regulation and property planning.
I stay in Huntersville with my spouse and our four children. We each have children from previous relationships, and one toddler collectively. I very well understand the difficulties that come with divorce, dividing your belongings and money owed, and baby custody, having to blend two toddler custody schedules myself. Understanding custody from both a felony and realistic attitude, I try and assist my clients develop arrangements that really guide their kids’s excellent pastimes, and that paintings for the long term. I am captivated with assisting dad and mom expand schedules that reduce conflict, and assist their children’s growth and improvement. My exercise philosophy avoids or minimizes litigation to the quantity we are able to come to a reasonable settlement. If we aren't, or if we are dealing with the unreasonable, we don't have any choice however to combat for what is great to your youngsters.
Education:
- Appalachian State University – Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice
- Oklahoma City University School of Law – Juris Doctor
- Boston University – Master of Criminal Justice
- University of St. Andrews – Graduate certificates in Terrorism Studies
Additional expert enjoy:
- Police officer with the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department (6.5 years)
- United States Army veteran – Engineer officer with the North Carolina Army National Guard (8.five years). Deployed in aid of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Legal Issues
- Divorce
- Collaborative Law, Contested Divorce, Military Divorce, Property Division, Same Sex Divorce, Spousal Support & Alimony, Uncontested Divorce
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father s Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights , Victims Rights
- Estate Planning
- Guardianship & Conservatorship, Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Traffic Tickets
- Suspended License
Costs
- Payment With Credit Card
Certificates
NC DHHS
Alcosensor / ASTD
NC DHHS
Standardized Field Sobriety Testing (SFST)
NHTSA
Languages
- English: Spoken, Written
Accepted Jurisdictions

Experience
- Partner / Lawyer
Adkins Law PLLC
2014 - Engineer Officer
North Carolina Army National Guard
2009 - Police Officer
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department
2007
Educations

Graduation year: 2010

Graduation year: 2008

Graduation year: 2003

Graduation year: 1999