Wichita Kansas Adoption Attorney | Juvenile Law Attorney | Estate Planning Lawyer

When you need a competent, compassionate lawyer for any legal matter that involves children, you need the McDowell Chartered law firm in Wichita, Kansas. From adoption and guardianship to estate planning to juvenile criminal defense, we are here to serve you in the Wichita area and surrounding counties. Call us to talk about your situation.

The main practice areas at McDowell Chartered are adoptions, juvenile crime, children in need of care (CINC), estate planning, and probate. Other areas we handle include family law and collaborative divorce, mediation, criminal law, drunk driving (DUI) and other traffic offenses.

Kansas Adoption Attorneys

Our Wichita, Kansas adoption attorney and experienced staff can effectively handle all adoption matters. With private adoptions, sometimes couples come to us with all the arrangements made. In other cases, they ask our adoption staff to help them find a child. We handle many stepparent adoptions, including those involving military families. Even when these families are legal residents in other states, Kansas allows them to adopt here. We also help relatives adopt children in need of care, who have been taken from their parents for abuse or neglect.

Kansas Juvenile Defense Lawyer

If your child is charged with a crime, you need an experienced juvenile criminal defense lawyer as soon as possible.  At McDowell Chartered we have many years of experience defending juveniles successfully. We will work to get charges either reduced or dismissed, thereby achieving the best possible result in court.

Child Protective Custody Attorney

When children are taken into protective custody because of neglect or abuse, as a grandparent you may want to adopt the children if the parents’ rights are terminated. To do this, you need an experienced attorney right from the start. We will help you navigate through this frustrating time so that you will not accidentally hamper the process, causing problems for your children and grandchildren. We will also make sure that everything needed to qualify you as an adopting grandparent is taken care of.

Kansas Estate Planning Lawyer

Our knowledgeable estate planning attorney will help you create the documents that will leave your assets to your children and grandchildren as you see best. We draft wills, trusts, special needs trusts for disabled family members, and guardianships and conservatorships that will name people to take care of your young children or to help you if you no longer can manage your affairs. We encourage you to create a health care directive or living will to tell family and doctors what you want for end-of-life care. And when a family member will need nursing home care, we help you with Medicaid planning to keep some assets for the remaining spouse.

Most of the clients at McDowell Chartered come from Wichita, Andover, El Dorado, Winfield, Wellington and throughout the counties of Sedgwick, Butler, Cowley, Sumner, Harvey, and Reno. When you want to talk with a knowledgeable, compassionate lawyer, please call us.

“Putting Children First”

McDowell Chartered
940 N. Main Street
Wichita, KS 67203
Phone: 316-269-0746
Fax: 316-269-3797