“I asked three questions on the phone and got three straight answers. That night I stopped rehearsing the worst case.”
Janelle R.Divorce
Family law in Greensboro
“You don’t have to be calm to call me. You only have to call.”
Almost nobody phones a family lawyer on a good day. You are at the kitchen table after the children are asleep, or in the car outside school, holding a letter you have read six times.
I have sat across from people in that exact spot for many years. What they need first is rarely a fight. They need someone to say what happens next, what it will cost, and which of the things keeping them awake the court will actually decide.
So that is where we begin: one plain answer, in writing, before you spend a dollar on anything else.
Rosalie Kernodle
Attorney, Kernodle Law
Rosalie Kernodle
Family law attorney in Greensboro
One lawyer, one paralegal, and a phone that gets answered.
Most of what a family court decides is not about winning. It is where a child sleeps on a Tuesday, who keeps the house until the lease ends, and how two people who cannot talk will still manage a graduation, a surgery and a holiday.
You will not be handed to someone you have not met. I will tell you what a judge is likely to ask for, what is worth arguing about and what is not, even when that is not what you hoped to hear.
Credentials
Licensed, trained and answerable
Where Rosalie is admitted to practice, and the training behind how she works with families.
Bar admissions
State Bar of North Carolina
1994
Courts
Guilford County District Court
Family matters
U.S. District Court, Middle District of North Carolina
1996
Education
Juris Doctor
1994
Bachelor of Arts
1991
Training
Family mediation training
40 hours
Memberships
North Carolina Bar Association
Family law section
Guilford County Bar Association
Languages
English
How Rosalie helps
Where most families begin
Start with the page closest to your week. Each one says what the court looks at and what to gather first.
Ending a marriage
The house, the debts, the retirement accounts and the paperwork, one decision at a time.
Read about divorce
Children and money
A schedule your children can live with, and support worked out the way the court works it out.
Read about parenting time
Staying safe
Asking the court for protection, or answering an order someone else has filed.
Read about protective orders
Afterward
Notes from families, afterward
“Our son's schedule is written so clearly that his dad and I haven't argued about a pickup since.”
Bryce H.Parenting time
“I didn't know I could ask for protection without going back to the house. Rosalie stayed beside me for the whole hearing.”
Shontae W.Protective order
Every family's case is different. These sample comments don't predict the result in yours.
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You don't need the whole story. Rosalie or her paralegal will call you back within one business day. If anyone is in danger right now, call 911.
Phone(336) 555-0143
Hours
- Monday to FridayToday
- 8:30 a.m. – 5 p.m.
- Evenings
- by appointment
- Saturday and SundayToday
- Closed