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About the Bardol Law Firm, LLC

While many strive to keep family law matters private, everyone needs a helping hand at times, especially when it comes to divorce, adoption, and domestic violence. Anxiety, fear, and tension; all family law issues involve these emotions, not to mention complicated paperwork.

At Bardol Law Firm, LLC, we are dedicated to helping individuals through these stressful family law processes. As a St. Louis, Missouri, family law firm, we pride ourselves on being both knowledgeable, and approachable, able to handle whatever you throw at us.

Bardol Law Firm, LLC practices family law and nothing else. We work out of our Webster Groves office and appear regularly in the family courts of St. Louis County, St. Louis City, St. Charles County and Jefferson County. Handling one area of law is what lets us tell you early how a particular court tends to move, what a judge or family court commissioner is likely to want, and how long your matter should realistically take.

Every family matter is unique and needs a tailored approach.

Communication and honesty are both key to seamlessly navigating through the divorce and adoption processes. While we want to help you through your legal trouble, we also want you to comprehend every step along the way.

Every family lawyer at Bardol Law Firm, LLC knows that going through a divorce is an emotional time. The stress builds and the questions pile up. We want to be there to answer your questions, hopefully relieving that stress.

That is also why we answer. Calls to Bardol Law Firm, LLC get returned, generally within one business day, and every client works with a named paralegal as well as an attorney, so there is always someone who knows your file.

When you are about to add a member to your family, you want the adoption to be seamless in every way.

With a Bardol Law Firm, LLC, family lawyer at your side, we hope to make this possible.

With honesty and compassion, we will do our absolute best to tackle the many aspects of your family’s matter. We can help you obtain orders of protection when family members feel threatened. We can negotiate complex property division when divorces involve businesses and extensive marital assets. We also help with prenuptial agreements, establishing paternity, and adopting a child, amongst other family law issues.

The attorneys of Bardol Law Firm, LLC

Bardol Law Firm, LLC is a boutique firm, which means you know who is handling your case and you talk to that person. Every attorney here practices family law.

Stephen J. Bardol

Founder of Bardol Law Firm, LLC and the reason the firm was built around family law alone.
Ann Vatterott Bruntrager

Family law attorney at Bardol Law Firm, LLC, working with married parents through divorce, custody and parenting plans.
Denise N. Gabel

Family law attorney at Bardol Law Firm, LLC who previously served in the Missouri Attorney General’s Child Support Unit, which shows in support and high asset matters.
Mikayla Butler

Family law attorney at Bardol Law Firm, LLC, working with unmarried parents on paternity, custody and support.
Anna Palmer

Anna Palmer, family law attorney in St. Louis, Missouri, who came to family law through child advocacy and adoption work.

Family law matters Bardol Law Firm handles

Everything below is family law, and family law is all we do.

Child custody and parenting plans

Legal custody, physical custody, parenting time schedules, and modifications when circumstances change.
Child support

Form 14 calculations, establishment, enforcement, and modification. Try our child support calculator to get a starting number.
Spousal support and maintenance

What most people call alimony, including modifiable and non modifiable awards.
Property and asset division

Marital homes, retirement accounts, business interests, and separating what was never marital in the first place.
Paternity and unmarried co-parent rights

Establishing legal parentage, then the custody and support orders that follow it.
Adoption and guardianship

Stepparent, agency, independent placement and interstate adoptions, plus guardianship when a parent cannot care for a child.
Orders of protection

Ex parte, full, adult and child orders of protection when someone in the household is not safe.
Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements

Agreements made before or during a marriage that set out what happens to property if it ends.

Where Bardol Law Firm practices

Bardol Law Firm, LLC is based in Webster Groves and handles family law matters across the St. Louis metro. Most of our cases are heard in four jurisdictions, the Circuit Court of St. Louis County in Clayton, the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, the Circuit Court of St. Charles County in St. Charles, and the Circuit Court of Jefferson County in Hillsboro.

Knowing those four courthouses well is a practical advantage rather than a marketing line. It shapes what we tell you to expect on timing, on what is worth fighting over, and on when pushing harder will cost you more than it wins.

Talk to Bardol Law Firm

If you are trying to work out whether you have a family law problem or just a hard week, that is a fine reason to call. Reach Bardol Law Firm, LLC at 314.582.0617, or use the contact form on this page, and we will get back to you, generally within one business day.

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