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How does a family law case from Germany find its way to a courtroom in the middle of the United States? How does a parent in Sydney, a physician in Cairo, or a law professor posted to Tashkent end up with counsel in Oklahoma, Arkansas, or Missouri?
Families move. They move for jobs, for school, for love, and sometimes for safety. When a marriage or a child crosses a border, a subsequent legal case may be split in two. One part is in a foreign legal system. The other part lands in a county courthouse in a place like Tulsa, Fayetteville, or Joplin.
The global part of the work runs on relationships. Family lawyers who handle cross-border cases make referrals, place them, and receive them. A client in Bentonville with an issue in Berlin needs the right lawyer in Berlin, chosen by someone who knows who to call. A lawyer in London with a client whose case lands in Oklahoma needs trial counsel there, chosen the same way. Aaron Bundy is a fellow of the International Academy of Family Lawyers, a working network of family lawyers across dozens of countries. The academy is how a law professor working in Uzbekistan learns who to call in Tulsa, and it is how a client in Joplin gets connected, within a day, to the right counsel in Kyiv or Dubai.
That is the reason our phone rings from other continents.
The local part is equally important. An international case is still decided by a judge in a county courthouse, the same as any other family case. We are cross-licensed in Oklahoma, Arkansas, and Missouri, and we are in those courtrooms every day of the week. We know the local rules, the local mediators, and the local calendars, and we prepare every case, foreign or domestic, like it is going to trial. A client in Tokyo or Cape Town requires a team that treats their case like it belongs to a neighbor..
Some live in Oklahoma, Arkansas, or Missouri while a spouse, a child, an account, or an order sits abroad. Others live abroad while their case lands here. We handle both directions, keeping the end of the case that belongs in this region and placing the end that belongs somewhere else with counsel worthy of trust.
Global reach finds the right hands in the right country. Local touch tries the case in the courthouse down the street. Questions about a family matter that crosses a border, in or out of Oklahoma, Arkansas, or Missouri, can go to [email protected].
