Founded in 1918, Allen Wellman Harvey Keyes Cooley has practiced law in Hancock County for more than a century. The Greenfield firm also keeps a satellite office on West Ohio Street in Indianapolis, so central Indiana families can meet closer to downtown.
Its family law team handles divorce, property division, grandparents' rights, and modifications after a decree is entered. Ten attorneys cover criminal defense, estate planning, business law, and injury claims as well.
Each lawyer works within a narrow set of practice areas. That matters when a marriage ends alongside a bankruptcy or an estate dispute. A fit for eastern Indiana clients who want one firm for several connected legal problems.
Fathers who feel outmatched in court are a core part of this practice. Deidra N. Haynes built her firm around family law, and her fathers' rights work draws steady client reviews.
The Law Office of Deidra N. Haynes LLC is an Indianapolis divorce and family law practice covering paternity, adoption, guardianship, and prenups. The office sits near Crosspoint Boulevard on the northeast side, and a second practice area handles car accident and nursing home abuse claims.
Haynes has earned Super Lawyers recognition and an Avvo Client's Choice award, and the firm made the Inc. 5000 list. Clients work with a staffed team of attorneys and paralegals rather than a solo practitioner.
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Bernhardt Phillips, LLP pairs two founding partners with 28 years of combined courtroom time in Indiana domestic cases. Brooke Bernhardt handles negotiation and litigation. Zachariah Phillips takes matters where family and criminal charges overlap.
That overlap is the firm's clearest strength. Protective orders, domestic violence charges, and contested parenting time often arrive together, and both areas are handled in-house.
The Massachusetts Avenue office serves Marion, Hamilton, and Hendricks counties. Probate, estate litigation, and injury claims round out the practice, and first consultations are free. Worth a call if you need a divorce lawyer in Indianapolis who can also defend a criminal charge.
JR Emerson sat as a judge on the Whitestown Town Court before returning to private practice. That view of how Indiana courts think shapes how the firm prepares a case.
He and Jill Bracken-Emerson, a husband-and-wife team, work high-asset dissolutions together from an office in Carmel's Arts District. Business valuations, executive compensation, and retirement accounts come up often. Between them, they hold 40+ years of experience, and the firm's injury side has recovered over $8 million.
Cane Legal, LLC is led by Nakeina S. Cane, a former prosecuting attorney with more than 10 years in practice. She handles family law and estate planning from a Counselors Row office on the north side of Indianapolis.
Cane also works as a mediator, which gives clients a settlement route before litigation starts. Divorce, custody, child support, and paternity make up the bulk of the caseload, and consultations can be booked online.
Attorneys Judy G. Hester and Lavonna L.T. Derringer carry Super Lawyers ratings and take on Indianapolis family law litigation from a downtown Alabama Street address.
Brazill Hester runs a remote-first model, with its attorneys working from non-traditional locations rather than a fixed office floor. The practice covers dissolution, guardian ad litem and parenting coordinator appointments, prenuptial agreements, civil litigation, and appeals.
Spanish-speaking families in Indiana went years with few bilingual options in family court. López Law Office, P.C. changed that from North Meridian Street, where Vanessa López Aguilera and her team practice in English and Spanish.
The office also serves LGBTQ+ clients through second parent adoptions and domestic partnership matters. Other work includes long-term marriage dissolution, business owner divorces, name changes, and bilingual civil mediation. López Aguilera is listed by Super Lawyers.
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Travis Van Winkle chairs the Family Law Section of the Indianapolis Bar Association and has been named a Super Lawyer five years running.
His downtown practice, established in 2009, pairs family law with Chapter 7 and Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings. That pairing helps when a marriage ends alongside serious debt. Adoptions, paternity, guardianships, and protective orders are handled too.
Since 1989, George A. Simpson has worked family law cases across central Indiana. He belongs to a small group certified as a Family Law Specialist by the Indiana State Bar Association's certification board.
His Oaklandon Road office keeps overhead low and bills below what larger central Indiana firms charge. Dissolution, custody and parenting time, post-decree modifications, and estate planning are the main services.
Robert A. Schembs spent six years as a major felony deputy prosecutor for Marion County and has tried more than 100 jury trials across four decades.
Schembs Law works the seam between family and criminal matters from East Washington Street. Department of Child Services neglect cases, protective orders, and domestic violence charges filed mid-dissolution all fall in range. Schembs is AV rated by Martindale-Hubbell.
Daniel H. Wolfe has practiced on the south side of Indianapolis for over 30 years. His Shelbyville Road office covers dissolution, bankruptcy, criminal litigation, wills, and probate for clients in Marion, Shelby, Hancock, and Johnson counties.
Roots in Speedway reaching back to 1975 make Popcheff & Dinn one of the longest-running family law practices in the Indianapolis area. The firm handles dissolution, support agreements, and parenting arrangements, and will take a case to trial when settlement talks stall.
Few Indiana family law firms brief as many appeals. Ciyou & Associates, P.C. has argued hundreds before the Indiana Court of Appeals and the Indiana Supreme Court, alongside high-conflict custody and high-net-worth marital estate work. Bilingual representation is available, and the firm keeps a Fishers office by appointment.
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Most of Darryn L. Duchon's clients arrive by referral from other attorneys and past clients. His 35+ years in Indiana divorce work include marital estates topping $200 million, professional athletes, and business owners. Duchon is also a certified divorce mediator and offers evening and Saturday hours.