Practice Areas

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vanRoden Family Law, P.A. concentrates in all areas of family law, including divorce, custody, access, parent coordination, child support, spousal support, and marital property issues, including pension division and distribution.

Additionally, our attorneys are trained mediators offering services that may be considered as alternatives to litigation. Our attorneys are upfront and honest with clients, respecting their needs, goals, and objectives. We maintain strong community ties and are committed to the pursuit of excellence. Our attorneys and staff provide timely, client-oriented service.

Dedication to quality, understanding of the law, trust, and respect are the foundation for long-standing relationships with clients and the community.

  • Family Law
  • Divorce: Divorce or dissolution of marriage is the ending of a marriage before the death of either spouse. It can be contrasted with an annulment, which is a declaration that a marriage is void, though the effects of marriage may be recognized in such unions, such as spousal support or Alimony, child custody, child support, and distribution of property.
  • Custody: Child custody and guardianship are legal terms which are sometimes used to describe the legal and practical relationship between a parent and his or her child, such as the right of the parent to make decisions for the child, and the parent’s duty to care for the child.
    Residence and contact issues typically arise in proceedings involving divorce, annulment and other legal proceedings where children may be involved. In most jurisdictions the issue of which parent the child will reside with is determined in accordance with the best interests of the child standard.
  • Child Support: Child support or child maintenance is the ongoing obligation for a periodic payment made by a non-custodial parent to a custodial parent, caregiver or guardian, for the care and support of children of a relationship or marriage that has been terminated.
    Child support is based on the policy that parents are obligated to pay for the support of their children, even when the children are not living with both biological parents. Though courts typically permit visitation rights to non-custodial parents, in such separations one parent is given custody and the role of primary caregiver. In such cases, the other parent still remains obligated to pay a proportion of the costs involved in raising the child.
  • Separation: Legal separation does not automatically lead to divorce. The couple may reconcile, in which case they need do nothing in order to remain married. If they do not reconcile, and wish to divorce after the statutory time period, they must file for divorce explicitly.
  • Visitation
  • Marital Property Issues
  • Pension Division and Distribution