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I bring considerable knowledge and experience in matters that impact Lowcountry families. My services are dedicated to assisting families who serve the community through military service, government contracting, and federal employment.I am a 2006 graduate of Malone University in Canton, Ohio. During my undergraduate education, I interned for the White House, where I assisted with receiving and responding to gifts and correspondence sent to the President. After graduating magna cum laude and receiving a B.A. degree in Political Science, I served as Deputy Associate Director to the Executive Office of the President and later as a Special Assistant in the Office of Legislative Affairs for the Department of Defense at the Pentagon. I further enhanced my skills as an Account Manager for CQ-Roll Call Group in Washington, D.C. In this position I trained lobbyists and law firms to track Congressional legislation through the CQ.com website.Desiring to serve the local community, I enrolled in the Charleston School of Law. While pursuing my law degree, I joined Brinkley Law Firm as a law clerk. I also gained valuable experience during a family court clerkship for the Honorable Jack Landis in Berkeley, Charleston, and Lexington counties where I observed complex issues facing families in the Lowcountry.I graduated cum laude from the Charleston School of Law in South Carolina. I also received CALI Awards (signifying the highest grade earned in a class) for Contemporary Issues in Professional Responsibility and Law Practice Management & Economics. My student memberships included the Student Division of the Charleston County Bar Association, Women in Law Society, and Aviation Law Society.After gaining valuable experience on the White House staff and first-hand knowledge of federal policy, I am now focused on serving the local community. My services include legal representation for divorce, alimony, custody/visitation and child support matters, as well as adoption.

Rene is a shareholder and the chair of the Saxton & Stump Family Law Group working out of the firm’s Charleston office. She is also a member of the firm’s Education and Labor and Employment groups. Rene has significant experience in the legal field, both as an attorney for over a decade, and as a paralegal earlier in her career.Rene has a thriving practice in family court, handling a wide variety of domestic issues including, child custody, parental alienation, third party custody and visit modification actions, alimony, equitable division, termination of parental rights and familial adoption, and divorce.

Kelley Andrews-Edwards is a native Charlestonian with over ten years’ experience working in the field of family law. Kelley specializes in complex divorce and child custody matters, including complex litigation and appellate practice. She is a seasoned trial attorney and has successfully litigated and appealed family court matters, contributing to the growing and evolving body of South Carolina family law. Her most recent appeal resulted in a landmark decision by the South Carolina Court of Appeals on the modification of alimony upon retirement.. Kelley is a fierce and passionate advocate for her clients whose primary goal is to de-escalate and resolve conflict. She practices with both compassion and reason, emphasizing the importance of candor and setting client expectations throughout all phases of litigation.. Kelley began her undergraduate education as an International Relations major at the University of St. Andrews in St. Andrews, Scotland. She returned to the US two years later to her complete her undergraduate degree at the University of South Carolina, where she graduated summa cum laude in 2010.. Kelley relocated to Chicago, Illinois in 2011 when she was accepted to Northwestern School of Law’s prestigious JD-LLM program in international human rights. During her four years at Northwestern, Kelley studied and worked around the world advancing and promoting international human rights. She worked as a human rights reporter in Phnom Phen, Cambodia, for the counterterrorism division of Human Rights Watch in Washington, DC, and for the United Nations High Commissioner of Human Rights in Geneva, Switzerland.. In 2015, Kelley graduated with honors from Northwestern School of Law with a Juris Doctorate and Master of Laws in International Human Rights. She returned to her hometown of Charleston where she practiced exclusively in the area of family law before joining The Andrews Law Firm.