Family Law
Trent, Tyrell & Phillips provides smart, sensitive advocacy to clients in all family law matters. When your family is at stake, there is no room for error. Our family law attorneys work closely with each client to ensure they understand their options and make good decisions. It is our job to protect our clients by helping cut through emotion, think clearly, and make choices that serve them and their families in the long term.
Our family law attorneys have particular skill at analyzing each client's unique situation and advising on the likely outcomes of possible actions - including performing a true cost/benefit analysis in settlement negotiations. We will negotiate, mediate, or litigate in court to get a resolution that is in our clients' and their family's best interests.
Trent, Tyrell & Phillips provides skilled, professional representation in:
- Divorce
- Child custody and support
- Adoptions
- Termination of parental rights
- Grandparent rights
- Post-judgment modifications
Divorce
Even at its best, divorce is a difficult experience for everyone involved. At Trent, Tyrell & Phillips we are skilled advocates for our divorce clients, both in and out of court. We provide clients with a clear-headed view of the relevant issues during an emotionally charged time. We help and advise clients on:
- Risks and benefits of settlement, mediation, or trial.
- The divorce process
- Protecting interests during discovery
- Negotiations over division of property, visitation, custody, support
- Other divorce-related matters.
Even if both parties agree on the major issues, our divorce attorneys can provide essential advice and an experienced eye to avoid overlooking anything, with a view to ensuring that the final agreement complies with Nevada law and that you can live with your choices.
Child Custody and Support
In Nevada, there is a presumption that parents should share all custodial rights and responsibilities. A judge must provide good reasons to deny joint legal and physical custody if one of the divorcing parents requests it. Child custody is one of the most important and often most contentious issues in a divorce proceeding.
The child custody attorneys at Trent, Tyrell & Phillips have extensive experience in all child custody matters including:
- Custody mediation
- Visitation
- Negotiating custody agreements
- Shared parenting plans
- Parenting evaluations
- Enforcement
We also help clients with more complicated custody issues, such as multi-state and international custody arrangements.
Parents have a legal obligation to support their children financially. Our child support attorneys help obtain and enforce fair child support awards and enforce those awards - through wage garnishment actions or liens against property, when necessary.
Adoptions
The adoption attorneys at Trent, Tyrell & Phillips have the resources to help individuals and couples through the adoption process, including obtaining the necessary consents, termination of the birth parents' parental rights, custody transfer, and other requirements for:
- Private adoptions
- Adoptions through an agency
- Foster care adoptions
- Adult adoptions
- Adoptions by step-parents or grandparents
- International adoptions.
Termination of Parental Rights
Legal termination of a parent's rights is a serious and drastic step, permitted only when a court determines that termination is in the best interests of the child and that there is parental fault warranting a termination. Grounds for parental fault include
- Abandonment or neglect of the child
- Unfitness of the parent
- Risk of incurring serious physical, mental, or emotional injury if the child remains with the parent.
Parental fault can also be established if the parent has made only token efforts to support or communicate with the child, prevent neglect of the child or eliminate the risk of serious injury to the child. The attorneys at Trent, Tyrell & Phillip provide representation and advise clients on terminating parental rights.
Grandparent Rights
Grandparents sometimes find they are no longer welcome in their grandchildrens' lives when a child's parents are separated or divorced, one parent dies, or parental rights are terminated. Under Nevada law grandparents and great-grandparents may get a court order allowing them visitation with their grandchildren if it is in the child's best interest. This is possible even when a child is placed for adoption - as long as the grandparent filed a petition before parental rights were terminated. At Trent, Tyrell & Phillips, we help resolve disputes over grandparents' rights and ensure the child's interests are protected.
Post-judgment Modifications
Circumstances change. Modification is the legal process used to make changes to parenting plans and child support when there has been a substantial change of circumstances. Modifications can be sought when necessary and in the best interest of the child. Circumstances that may require modifications include:
- A relocation by one parent to another state affecting custody or visitation
- A change in economic circumstances requiring a modification to the amount of child or spousal support amount(s).
Experience. Reputation. Responsiveness. Contact the Las Vegas Family Law attorneys at Trent, Tyrell & Phillips to assist you.
