Vernadette R. Broyles, Partner                  

J.D., Harvard Law School, 1995
Direct: 770-448-4525
vbroyles@adoptionfamilylaw.com

Vernadette Broyles is a family law attorney with expertise in all types of adoptions – relative and nonrelative, interstate and international, DFCS, independent, and private agency adoptions – and is an adoptive parent. Ms. Broyles is also an experienced litigator who provides representation in child custody, visitation, and child support matters, guardianships and conservatorships, paternity and legitimation actions, domestic violence and legal separations. Ms. Broyles also serves as a Guardian ad Litem for children in divorce and custody disputes in Superior Court.

Ms. Broyles has long been an advocate for families and children. Ms. Broyles serves on the Board of the Georgia Department of Human Resources, where she is Chairman of the DFCS Committee. Ms. Broyles has served on the federal Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention Program advisory board and on the National Advisory Counsel on Violence Against Women. Ms. Broyles received litigation experience as a former Assistant District Attorney in Fulton County and as a litigator with the Atlanta law firms of Schreeder, Wheeler, and Flint and Hunton & Williams, where she first began doing adoptions.

Ms. Broyles graduated from Harvard Law School in 1995. She received her undergraduate degree from Yale University in 1987.

Ms. Broyles is an Associate member of the Georgia Association of Licensed Adoption Agencies, and is a member of the Georgia Bar Association (Family Law Section) and the Gwinnett County Bar Association. Ms. Broyles is admitted to practice in trial courts throughout Georgia and before the Georgia Court of Appeals, the Georgia Supreme Court, the U.S. District Courts and U.S. Court of Appeals.

Ms. Broyles and her husband adopted their daughter, Elicia Soleada, from Ecuador in 2006.

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