Indiana Family Lawyers
Protecting Your Family, Your Rights, and the Future You Are Building.
Family legal matters affect the people, finances, and relationships that matter most. Custom Law represents families in Hamilton County, Madison County, and across Central Indiana with candid guidance, individualized strategy, and courtroom-ready advocacy.
Family Law Guidance for Difficult Transitions
Every family is different, and there is no one-size-fits-all solution to divorce, custody, support, adoption, or safety concerns. Short-sighted agreements can affect children, finances, property, and future relationships for years.
Custom Law begins by listening to what has happened, what is at risk, and what you need the future to look like. We provide a straightforward evaluation, explain realistic options, and build a strategy around your resources, objectives, concerns, and family’s well-being.
What We Work to Protect
- Your relationship and parenting time with your children
- Decision-making authority and stable parenting arrangements
- Property, income, retirement assets, and financial security
- Safety through appropriate protection-order relief
- Clear agreements that reduce avoidable future conflict
- The ability to move forward with accurate information and realistic expectations
Family Law Matters We Handle
- Divorce and legal separation: Property division, debt, maintenance, custody, parenting time, and support in agreed or contested cases.
- Child custody and visitation: Initial orders, parenting plans, enforcement, modification, relocation, guardianship, and grandparent issues.
- Child support: Paternity, guideline calculations, medical and educational expenses, enforcement, modification, and termination.
- Adoption: Private, agency, international, relative, foster-parent, same-sex partner, and stepparent adoptions.
- Family mediation: Representation during mediation and neutral mediation services for divorce, custody, support, and post-decree disputes.
- Protection and no-contact orders: Help seeking protection and defending against unsupported petitions.
Our broader family practice also includes uncontested divorce, spousal maintenance, prenuptial and postnuptial agreements, paternity and fathers’ rights, DCS investigations, CHINS proceedings, and guardianship.
A Strategy Built Around Your Family
Most family matters are resolved through negotiation or mediation, but an agreement should protect your rights and remain workable after the case ends. We prepare each matter with the possibility of court in mind so that negotiation does not begin from a position of weakness.
- Listen and assess. We identify the legal, financial, and family priorities that should guide the case.
- Gather the facts. We review records, existing orders, finances, communications, and evidence relevant to the disputed issues.
- Choose the right forum. The strategy may involve direct negotiation, mediation, emergency relief, motion practice, or trial.
- Keep you informed. Clients receive direct answers, candid advice, and updates needed to make decisions.
With more than 20 years of legal experience, mediation training, and extensive courtroom work, our attorneys combine practical problem-solving with the ability to litigate when the other side will not agree to a fair result.
Focused on What Matters Most
What to Expect from Custom Law
Family matters require practical advice, careful preparation, and an understanding of how today’s decisions will affect children, finances, and relationships later. We develop a strategy around your objectives while preparing for negotiation, mediation, or court.
Individual Strategy
Your family, priorities, and risks shape the plan rather than a standard form or one-size-fits-all approach.
Candid Guidance
We explain realistic options, likely tradeoffs, and the information needed to make informed decisions.
Negotiation and Trial Readiness
We seek workable agreements while preparing the evidence and arguments needed when court becomes necessary.
Client Reviews
What Our Clients Say
Going through a divorce was the hardest thing I've done, but they protected me and my kids every step of the way. Compassionate and relentless in the courtroom.
Sarah M.
They took the time to explain everything and never made me feel like just another case number. The outcome exceeded my expectations.
Ashley P.