Happy Holidays! It’s Giving Tuesday, and we are continuing our tradition of making charitable donations to two local organizations that we believe make an impact in our communities. This year, Ward Family Law Group is proud to support……. In 1983, North Carolina State Professor Doctor Ed Funkhouser and Raleigh businessman Ben Eason founded the North Carolina Reading Service (NCRS). Its mission is to connect those who are vision and print impaired with news and information… Read More
Ward Family Law Group is pleased to announce that once again Attorney Dale Stephenson is recognized in the fourth edition of Best Lawyers: Ones to Watch in America™ for her high caliber work in Family Law. Best Lawyers released their 2024 recognitions publicly on August 17, 2023. This recognition acknowledges her outstanding reputation as an attorney and advocate, and we are extremely proud of Dale’s accomplishment and her continued dedication to her clients and the profession. Best Lawyers… Read More
On Thursday, May 18, 2023, Wake County District Court Judge Ashleigh P. Dunston presented a motion in open court for Dale’s admittance, along with select attorneys of the Wake County Bar, to the Supreme Court of the United States. Chief Justice Roberts granted Judge Dunston’s motion, officially granting Dale admittance to practice law before the highest court in America. Not only was May 18, 2023, a significant milestone in Dale’s legal career, it was also… Read More
Ward Family Law Group is pleased to announce the addition of Ryan Tarrant to the Wake County Parenting coordinator list. Ryan is currently accepting appointments as a Parenting Coordinator in Wake County. Ryan Tarrant earned his law degree from Campbell University’s Norman Adrian Wiggins School of law and is certified by the State Bar of North Carolina as a specialist in Family Law. He trained as a parenting coordinator through The Center for Cooperative Parenting,… Read More
Thanks to the readers of Wake Living Magazine for naming Linda Ward as BEST ATTORNEY. It is an honor to be recognized. Thank you!
Beginning Monday, April 17th we will have new office hours. We hope the earlier opening will be more convenient to our clients and allow us to provide better service to you.
We are proud to announce that attorneys Linda Ward and Dale Stephenson have been selected to the Business North Carolina 2023 list of Legal Elite in Family Law. Lawyers on this list are nominated and chosen by their peers who think they are the state’s best practitioners in their field. Only 3% of practicing attorneys in North Carolina were selected as Legal Elite for this 2023 list. Congratulations to Linda and Dale! We are extremely… Read More
The state of North Carolina plans to invest over $100 million over the next ten years to convert its current court filing systems from paper filings to efilings. Wake County is one of four counties in the state to be part of a pilot program for this new eCourts system. The others are Harnett, Johnston, and Lee Counties. This “eCourts” portal is to be available in all 100 counties across the state by 2025. What… Read More
This past weekend, Ward Family Law Group attorney, Dale V. Stephenson, along with fellow attorney, Chris Nichols, coached two Broughton High School Mock Trial teams at the North Carolina Advocates for Justice (NCAJ) High School Mock Trial Regional Competition, held in Fayetteville, North Carolina. Broughton’s teams consisted of fourteen students, eleven of whom had never participated in mock trial. In a “mock trial”, student teams present an entire trial to seasoned attorneys who serve as… Read More
