Zelman Law: Board-Certified Criminal Trial and Family Law in Florida

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Joshua D. Zelman is Board Certified by The Florida Bar in Criminal Trial law and has practiced for more than 20 years. He founded Zelman Law in Tallahassee, where the office at 1030 E Lafayette St, Suite 9, handles both criminal-trial work and a full family-law docket. He belongs to the National College for DUI Defense. Free consultations are available, and a meeting can be scheduled in the evening or on a weekend when that is needed.

From Leon County Court to the Northern District of Florida

Criminal files come in at every level of the local court system. Misdemeanors are heard in Leon County Court. Felony prosecutions proceed in Florida's circuit courts. Federal charges are taken in the Northern District of Florida. The charges on those calendars include DUI, drug trafficking and possession, violent offenses, sex offenses, theft, juvenile crimes, probation violations, and white-collar and federal crimes. When a case has already ended, sealing or expungement may still be available to an eligible client.

The DUI work is of a piece with his membership in the National College for DUI Defense. A first-time DUI, a trafficking accusation, a probation violation, and a federal indictment can all be opened in the same Tallahassee practice, with the forum (county court, circuit court, or federal court) setting the path. The Lafayette Street office is the place those state and federal files, and the family files that share the practice, are opened.

Divorce, children, and property

Family files are not a sideline. The office takes contested, uncontested, collaborative, and high-net-worth divorce. It also takes child custody and parenting plans, child support, alimony, relocation, paternity, and property division. A parenting plan can be written in an original divorce or later modified. Relocation and paternity are filed in the same family docket.

That mix is aimed at households in Leon, Wakulla, and Jefferson counties, and at clients who live elsewhere in Florida but need counsel in those courts. The criminal-trial certification and the family docket share one office rather than being split between two firms.

Zelman Law
1030 E Lafayette St, Suite 9, Tallahassee, FL 32301
850-765-5948
https://www.joshuadzelman.com/