Fairfax Family Law Firm

The team at Wexell Milman understands the impact that divorce can have on a person’s life. You decided to marry or start building a life with another person. Along the way, children may have been born, assets and debts accumulated, and lives intertwined. But when the marriage or relationship does not last — as happens almost 40% of the time — what then?

If you are considering, or are already going through, a separation or divorce, or if you are facing post-divorce issues, it is important to have an attorney you trust to help you achieve your goals and minimize the damage caused by separation and divorce. Since 1981, the family law firm to call for this kind of help is Wexell Milman.

Richard Wexell – an experienced divorce lawyer at family law firm Wexell Milman in Fairfax County, Virginia – limits his practice to issues pertaining to family law. He represents clients throughout Fairfax County and Northern Virginia in a variety of family law matters, including child and spousal support, child custody and visitation, marital property and debt division, and divorce. He also counsels clients on other family law issues like division of assets and liabilities, support issues, post-divorce modifications, prenuptial agreements, marital agreements, and parental relocation.

While he attempts to resolve issues for his clients through negotiation, Richard Wexell is an experienced, skilled, and tenacious litigator who devotes 50% of his family law practice to litigation. He has a particular interest in child custody cases, especially those involving relocation issues, and he was trial and appellate counsel in one of the leading child custody relocation cases in the Commonwealth of Virginia. Richard Wexell is committed to preserving his clients’ relationship with their children.

Richard Wexell is a distinguished divorce lawyer who has received numerous honors and awards. He has been rated “AV Preeminent” (the highest possible peer rating)by Martindale-Hubbell; Northern Virginia Magazine named Mr. Wexell as one of Northern Virginia’s top divorce lawyers; and he is honored to have been selected by the Best Lawyers of America publication in the category of family law.

Various organizations, including the American Bar Association and local and state bar associations, have asked him to deliver lectures on a variety of family law topics, such as property division, child custody, and spousal support.

Richard Wexell’s objective as a divorce lawyer is to provide clients in Fairfax County, VA and the surrounding areas with personal, responsive, and cost-effective representation that achieves their reasonable goals. Understanding that they are going through one of the most difficult experiences in their lives, Richard Wexell provides compassionate counsel to his clients. However, he will be as tough as he needs to be to protect their rights and ensure the best possible outcome to their family law case.