Top Family Lawyers in ZIP 67214 | 5 available

With over thirty years’ experience, Boyd McPherson has litigated hundreds of cases and helped countless clients in Wichita and the surrounding areas. Boyd maintains a robust family law practice, primarily handling cases involving divorce, spousal maintenance, child support, custody, and adoption. He also assists businesses in liquor licensing and related issues throughout southcentral Kansas.

Taryn Folston is a Wichita-based family law attorney representing clients in divorce, child custody and support, parenting times, spousal maintenance, premarital agreements, legal guardianship petitions, and CINC cases. Taryn is an experienced litigator known for her formidable courtroom advocacy.

Julia Craft is an owner of Joseph, Hollander & Craft LLC and chairs the firm’s family law practice group. Having focused exclusively on family law representation since 1989, Julia devotes her practice to cases involving divorce, child support, child custody, spousal maintenance, parenting time, guardianships, adoptions, and grandparent rights. She has earned a reputation for excellence in Kansas courtrooms and is recognized as one of the top divorce lawyers in the Wichita area.

Desiree Smith is a family law attorney located in Wichita, KS, whose practice includes matters of divorce, child custody, child support, spousal maintenance, guardianships, paternity, and child-in-need-of-care (CINC).. Ms. Smith completed her undergraduate studies at Colorado State University in 2018 with a Bachelor of Science in Political Science and Government/Communications. She received her Juris Doctorate from Washburn School of Law in 2021, graduating with certificates in Family Law, Oil and Gas Law, and Natural Resources Law.. During law school, Ms. Smith was a member of the Christian Legal Society and the Oil, Gas, and Energy Law Society. She served as Vice-President of the Washburn Student Bar Association, as a Washburn Law Student Ambassador, and as a Junior Staff Writer, then Notes Editor, of the Washburn Law Journal. She also served as Co-Director of the Children and Family Law Center at Washburn.. Ms. Smith competed twice at the Philip C. Jessup International Law Moot Court Competition and on the 2019–2020 ABA Negotiations Team and received CALI Excellence for the Future Awards (Top Paper) in Torts, Contracts, Constitutional Law II, Legal Analysis, Research and Writing II, Oil and Gas Law, and Family Law Seminar.. While in law school, Ms. Smith worked as a law clerk for Bud Dale Law Office and the Kansas Department of Agriculture. She was also a summer associate at Joseph, Hollander & Craft in 2020.

Chris Randle grew up in Kansas City, Missouri. He received his Bachelor of Arts and Juris Doctor from the University of Kansas where he was part of the Beta Theta Pi Fraternity and the history honors society Phi Alpha Theta. Chris worked as an intern with the Shawnee County District Attorney in law school with the responsibility of prosecuting crimes of domestic violence. He worked for the City of Wichita as a prosecutor and as an Assistant District Attorney in Sedgwick County and was part of both the general trial division and the gang and violent crime unit. Before joining Penner Lowe, he also worked doing structured settlements on workers’ compensation and high liability cases, and as an attorney for Cordell and Cordell handling exclusively family law issues for a wide range of clients.. Chris has spent most of his adult life in the military and has served multiple assignments throughout the world. Chris served in Baghdad, Iraq in 2006-2007 with the U.S. Army as a legal assistance officer, operational law officer advising commanders on a wide range of military operations, and as a federal military magistrate reviewing search warrants and presiding over preliminary hearings on military criminal cases. He served his second deployment in 2010, this time as a Civil Affairs Officer in Djibouti, Africa. In Africa, Chris was the executive officer for a civil affairs company and the civil military liaison to the U.S. Embassy for Djibouti.. As the liaison, he was responsible for briefing the U.S. Ambassador on civil military operations in the area. He also served in numerous assignments throughout the United States, including as the Chief of Operational Law for the 1st Cavalry Division, Special Victims’ Counsel at Fort Leavenworth, and as a Fiscal and Administrative Law attorney at First Army Headquarters in Rock Island, Illinois.. Chris currently serves as an Army Reservist and is the Staff Judge Advocate for the 412th Theater Engineer Command in Vicksburg, Mississippi. Chris has been advising Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines for more than 16 years on issues that affect servicemembers and their families. He is licensed in multiple states and jurisdictions. Chris enjoys working out, reading Army history, volunteering, and cheering on his childhood home team the Kansas City Chiefs.