Experienced Family Law AND CRIMINAL DEFENSE Attorney
For the past 34 years, Andrew Thompson and Landmark Legal Advisors has helped families, parents, children and grandparents navigate the difficult and emotionally charged waters of family law litigation.
Child Custody
more than any other area of law, and more than but a few attorneys in the state, I have helped single or divorcing parents work through and accomplish successful pathways to the best arrangements they can hope for in parenting their children.
Repeatedly, we have helped single dads all over Indiana and in many other states, overcome oppressive parenting situations where their children’s mother has previously dominated the custody arrangement. We’ve aided dads in achieving full, joint custody arrangements when they started out from a place where they were nearly blocked entirely from their kids’ lives. Other times, we’ve been there to flip the custody arrangement around in favor of Dad.
We’ve also helped mothers. When a court has unjustly flipped custody in favor of a father in spite of the child’s bests interests in being with their mom, we’ve taken cases and won by pursuing an appeal or other legal strategy. Landmark has also represented numerous parents in DCS cases, obtaining successful and good outcomes for the parties.
Guardianships
In over 30 years in practice, Drew has learned how seriously invested grandparents can be and what they will do to help their grandchildren when parents are unable or unwilling to provide the full support and care a child needs. Grandparents are frequently the best clients we work with because they are so diligent and mature in the care of their grandchildren. We have handled numerous guardianships for third-party caregivers as well.
Adoption
One of the most joyous opportunities of my career has been to work with parents adopting a child. Though it is not a common area of practice for our firm, we have the skill and experience, and definitely the heart to help you with an adoption proceeding, whether it is interstate, agency initiated or otherwise.
Divorce
While we rarely take clients initiating a divorce, we regularly take cases for clients already in the throes of a high or moderate level, conflict of divorce. We help protect your position, assets, housing arrangements and certainly custody and support requirements that flow from a custody matter.
Appeals & Extraordinary Litigation
Landmark Legal Services is very unique in its capacity and willingness to take on appeals and other challenging parts of litigation many firms do not handle. We have considerable experience with appeals and a track record of helping clients achieve the results they need when a case goes beyond ordinary litigation.
CRIMINAL DEFENSE LEGAL SERVICE
For the past 34 years, Andrew Thompson and Landmark Legal Advisors has helped families, parents, children and grandparents navigate the difficult and emotionally charged waters of family law litigation.
Felony Defense
From basic defense work in felony related matters to the most challenging work on writs of habeas corpus or otherwise, Landmark Legal Services, though Andrew Thompson, provides criminal defense focused on achieiving the outcomes our clients are seeking. We see our approach as novel.
We first discuss the potential outcomes with our clients, and the steps involved, and then listen carefully to the outcome they hope to achieve. We then advise them on the reasonable expectations they have, and allow them to decide what we will pursue. We only take cases with the idea they will end in a plea agreement when that is the client’s stated intent. Otherwise, we come to the case with the intention of getting the case dismissed or taking it to a jury trial, proving reasonable doubt with respect to the charges that are in play, and giving our clients their life back in tact.
While we can never guaranty any result, we have had tremendous success with our approach and see many of our clients acquitted and their lives restored.
Bonds, Warrants, Appeals and PCRs
we also handle all of the non-traditional types of litigation involved when someone is charged with a crime. From bond reductions to warrant recalls to habeas corpus cases, and including appeals and post-conviction relief claims, we can help with any of your needs. Again, our approach is highly client focused and we work hard to obtain the best outcome we can for you.