Areas we serve
Johnson County, and both sides of the state line.
The firm keeps one office, on Metcalf Avenue in Overland Park. Everywhere below is a place it appears, not a second address. Johnson County cases are filed at the District Court in Olathe, Miami County cases in Paola, and Kansas City cases in Wyandotte or Jackson County depending on where venue sits.
- 14221 Metcalf Ave. Suite 210, Overland Park
- Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
- Licensed in Kansas and Missouri
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Johnson County
20 cities
De Soto
De Soto has changed faster in the last few years than anywhere else in the county, and family cases here increasingly involve a household that arrived recently, or one deciding whether to leave.
Edgerton
Edgerton is a small city with a very large logistics park on its doorstep, and the working patterns that come with it shape almost every family case here.
Fairway
Fairway is small, established and professional, and its divorces tend to involve something that has to be valued rather than counted.
Gardner
Gardner has grown quickly and it has grown young.
Lake Quivira
Lake Quivira is a private lake community that sits across the Johnson and Wyandotte county line.
Leawood
Higher asset bases, closely held businesses.
Lenexa
Lenexa is split across three school districts, and in a custody case that single fact matters more than anything else about the city.
Merriam
Merriam divorces are usually decided by cash flow rather than by asset division.
Mission
Mission has more renters and more young households than most of Johnson County, and its family law caseload looks different because of it.
Mission Hills
Complex estates, privacy is usually the priority.
Mission Woods
Mission Woods is a handful of streets surrounded by other cities, and that produces a practical problem worth getting right early: people are frequently unsure which city they actually live in, and that uncertainty ends up in paperwork that has to be accurate.
Olathe
Olathe is where every Johnson County family case ends up, because the courthouse is here.
Overland Park
The firm's office is here, on Metcalf Avenue.
Prairie Village
Prairie Village is one of the oldest suburbs in Johnson County, and its divorces reflect that.
Roeland Park
Roeland Park sits right against the state line, and that proximity is the defining feature of its family law cases.
Shawnee
Filed in Olathe, same district court.
Spring Hill
Spring Hill straddles the Johnson and Miami county line, and that is not a piece of trivia.
Stilwell
Land and acreage questions come up often.
Westwood
Westwood is the smallest city the firm regularly appears for, and it sits beside the medical centre.
Westwood Hills
Westwood Hills is a residential village with very little turnover, which means households here often stay for decades.
Miami County
6 cities
Bucyrus
Bucyrus is a small community on the Johnson County line whose daily life points north and whose courthouse is south.
Fontana
Fontana is a small city at the southern edge of Miami County, about as far from the Kansas City metro as the firm's practice reaches.
Hillsdale
Hillsdale sits beside Hillsdale Lake, and lake property turns up in these divorces in a way it does not elsewhere in the metro.
Louisburg
Louisburg sits just below the Johnson County line and a large share of the town commutes north for work.
Osawatomie
Osawatomie is an older river town in the south of Miami County with a significant public-sector and healthcare workforce.
Paola
Paola is the Miami County seat and the courthouse is here, which means a Paola family case is heard in the town it comes from.
Jackson County
12 cities
Kansas City
Kansas City, Missouri. Filed under Missouri law in Jackson County.
Blue Springs
Blue Springs households frequently have working lives on one side of the state line and home lives on the other.
Buckner
Buckner is a small town in the rural north-east of Jackson County, a long way from the courthouse and further still from the assumption that a Missouri case works like a Kansas one.
Grain Valley
Grain Valley has grown fast, and a lot of its households arrived recently.
Grandview
Grandview sits where Jackson County, Cass County and the Kansas line all meet.
Greenwood
Greenwood is a small city served by one of the largest school districts in the metro, and that mismatch shapes its custody cases.
Independence
The Eastern Jackson County Courthouse is in Independence, at 308 W.
Lee's Summit
Lee's Summit is a Missouri case, and the differences from Kansas start immediately.
Lone Jack
Lone Jack is the smallest community the firm regularly appears for in Jackson County, with one of the smallest school districts in the metro.
Oak Grove
Oak Grove straddles the Jackson and Lafayette county line, which makes the first question in any case here a factual one: which county is your address actually in? The answer decides the courthouse.
Raytown
Raytown is an older inner-ring suburb where most divorces are decided by the monthly numbers rather than by what anybody owns.
Sugar Creek
Sugar Creek is a small, older river town wedged against Independence, with a long industrial history behind a lot of its households.
The same nine practice areas, wherever you file.
Statutes are statewide. What changes city to city is scheduling, local practice and the kinds of assets in play.
Next step
Which court will hear your case?
Tell us where you live and what is happening, and we will tell you where this gets filed and what the first thirty days look like.
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Speak to someone at the firm about your situation in Overland Park, anywhere in Johnson County, or across the line in Missouri.
(913) 239-996614221 Metcalf Ave. Suite 210
Overland Park, KS 66223
Monday to Friday, 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM