Downtown Birmingham Law Office | The Harris Firm LLC

Our local Birmingham attorneys are happy to meet with you and your family for a consultation. The Harris Firm LLC has a law office in Birmingham at the address below:

The Harris Firm LLC
2101 1st Avenue North
Suite 320
Birmingham, Alabama 35203
(205) 201-1789

If you plan to visit our Birmingham law office, we welcome you to schedule a consultation. During your appointment, our attorneys can answer legal questions you have about your case and lay out what your options actually look like, whether that is an uncontested divorce, a custody matter, or probating a family member’s estate. Let our Birmingham lawyers counsel you today.

Our Birmingham Divorce Lawyer charges low flat fees for uncontested divorces. An uncontested divorce occurs when both parties agree on all marital issues, including child custody, property division, and child support. Our flat fee for an uncontested divorce is $690 without minor children of the marriage, or $890 with minor children, plus the county filing fee. The Jefferson County filing fee runs approximately $215, though you should call to confirm the current amount since court fees change from time to time. If you and your spouse are not in agreement and there are contested issues for a judge to resolve, then you may not be able to file an uncontested divorce. Call our divorce attorneys in Birmingham today for a consultation over the phone or in person.

If there is no agreement, then any divorce that is filed would be contested. The attorney fees to file a contested divorce are much higher, with retainers generally starting at $4,000 and billed against an hourly rate. Our Birmingham family law attorneys can sometimes bundle services and offer some type of flat fee discounted services for contested divorces and other domestic relations matters as well.

A few Alabama basics apply to either path. The court cannot enter a final divorce decree until at least 30 days after the complaint is filed, so even the smoothest uncontested case has a built-in waiting period. And if your spouse lives outside Alabama, you generally must have been a resident of the state for at least six months before filing here. Timing questions like these come up in almost every consultation, and the answers change what filing strategy makes sense, so raise them early rather than after the paperwork is drafted.

If you are filing for a divorce in the Birmingham area, then your case will likely be filed in the Jefferson County Domestic Relations Court in downtown Birmingham or the Shelby County Domestic Relations Court in Columbiana. We can also help if you have any other family law matter such as divorce modifications in Jefferson County, contempt petitions, getting an adoption, getting a last will & testament, probate matters, starting your own company, or any other issue involving your family. So give our divorce attorney in Birmingham a call today concerning your family law matter in the Jefferson County area.

Four of our attorneys regularly meet with clients at the downtown Birmingham office. Steven Harris, the firm’s founder, handles divorce, family law, probate, and estate planning matters and oversees every office in the firm. David Miller and Paige Johnson focus on divorce, child custody, child support, and other domestic relations cases in Jefferson and Shelby County. Christopher Owens handles probate, estate planning, wills, trusts, and property deed matters for clients in the Birmingham area.

That mix matters in practice. If your case starts as an uncontested divorce and turns contested, or if a custody matter later requires a name change or a guardianship in Probate Court, you do not have to go find a second law firm. The attorney handling your case can walk down the hall.

The Birmingham office is also the firm’s home base. Steven founded The Harris Firm LLC here, and the downtown location coordinates with our Chelsea, Huntsville, and Montgomery offices so that clients with cases in multiple counties, or family members spread across the state, get consistent representation without repeating their story to a new firm in every venue.

Our Birmingham estate planning lawyers are offering discounted fees for simple last will and testaments, estate planning documents, and living wills. A simple last will and testament is a $750 flat fee, and living wills, powers of attorney, and similar planning documents are flat-fee priced as well. Our Birmingham law office can also help with other estate issues such as probating an estate, adoptions, preparation of deeds, name changes, or otherwise preparing documents or representing you or your family member in the Probate Court of Jefferson or Shelby County.

Probate work is a core part of this office’s practice, not a sideline. Whether you need letters testamentary issued for a straightforward estate, a small estate administered, or help with a contested guardianship or conservatorship, our Birmingham probate attorneys handle these matters in the Jefferson County Probate Court downtown on a regular basis. Phone consultations for probate and estate planning matters are free, so it costs nothing to call and find out where your situation stands.

The downtown location puts our attorneys close to the courts where Birmingham-area cases are actually heard. Divorce and family law cases for most of the metro area are filed in the Jefferson County Domestic Relations Court in downtown Birmingham, just a few blocks from our office. Cases arising in the Bessemer Cutoff are handled in the Bessemer Division of the Jefferson County courts. Probate matters, including estates, adoptions, name changes, guardianships, and conservatorships, go through the Jefferson County Probate Court.

For clients south of town, Shelby County divorce and family law cases are filed with the Shelby County courts in Columbiana, and Shelby County probate matters go through the Shelby County Probate Court there as well. Our Chelsea office serves Shelby County clients who would rather meet closer to home. We also regularly represent clients from Hoover, Homewood, Vestavia Hills, Mountain Brook, Bessemer, Pelham, Helena, Alabaster, Trussville, Gardendale, and the surrounding communities.

Our office is located at 2101 1st Avenue North, Suite 320, in downtown Birmingham. Metered street parking is available on and around 1st Avenue North, and there are several paid lots and parking decks within a short walk of the building.

The office is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and consultations are by appointment. Phone consultations are free for uncontested divorces and for probate and estate planning matters. Consultations for contested divorce and other family law matters are $100, whether by phone or in person, and in-person consultations for any matter are $100. Call (205) 201-1789 to schedule a time that works for you.

A little preparation makes your consultation far more productive. For a divorce or family law consultation, it helps to bring or have handy any court papers you have already been served with, a rough list of marital assets and debts, and dates that matter, such as your marriage date, separation date, and your children’s birth dates. For a probate or estate planning consultation, bring the will if one exists, a death certificate if the estate is already open or about to be, and a general picture of the property involved. None of this is required, and plenty of clients call with nothing but questions. But the more concrete information our attorneys have in front of them, the more specific the advice you leave with.

If you cannot easily get downtown during business hours, phone consultations handle most initial questions just fine, and for uncontested divorces we regularly represent clients across Alabama who never need to set foot in the office at all. The paperwork can be handled by phone, email, and mail from start to finish in most uncontested cases.

The Harris Firm LLC in Birmingham

The Harris Firm LLC
2101 1st Avenue North
Suite 320
Birmingham, AL 35203
Tel: (205) 201-1789