Charla Strawser, Esq.

With 15 years of experience practicing exclusively in family law, Charla Strawser is the newest partner to join the Stern & Edlin team. Ms. Strawser handles all aspects of complex marital and domestic partner dissolutions, including high asset property division, contested child custody, spousal and child support, paternity and legitimation, and custodial and non-custodial parent relocation. She regularly drafts prenuptial and postnuptial agreements and also serves as the reviewing attorney for such agreements. Ms. Strawser received her J.D. from Wake Forest University School of Law with high honors and graduated on the Dean's List with a B.A. in philosophy from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ms. Strawser moved to Atlanta in 1998 after graduating law school, where she remains an actively involved member of several professional and bar association groups and serves as a Guardian ad Litem protecting children's interests in contested custody cases. She has been celebrated on Atlanta Magazine's Super Lawyer's Rising Stars list since 2006. She is the co-author of the Georgia Domestic Relations Case Finder, now in its fourth edition, which provides a one-step reference for finding relevant case law summaries at every stage of Georgia domestic relations practice. Ms. Strawser is certified in the practice of Collaborative Law. Ms. Strawser has dedicated her legal practice to the area of family law because it provides an opportunity to assist clients facing the most stressful event in their lives. For Ms. Strawser, representing a child, a wife who is also a mother or a husband who is also a father is not simply a legal or financial transaction, the well being of an entire family is at stake.