Jennifer Hargrave | Hargrave Family Law
Phone Number: (214) 420-0100
Jennifer Stanton Hargrave has completed the rigorous requirements to become Board Certified in family law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization. She is a member of the Texas Academy of Family Law Specialists, the Dallas Bar Family Law Section and Collaborative Divorce Texas. U.S. News & World Report has included her in their ranking of Best Lawyers every year since 2012 , as has Texas Super Lawyers, who also named her one of the Top 50 Women Attorneys in Texas (2014). She is AV Preeminent peer-review rated through Martindale-Hubbell, a member of the College of the State Bar of Texas and a Fellow in the Texas Bar Foundation since 2017. She has been recognized on the D Magazine listing as Best Lawyers in Dallas, and as she began her career in family law, she was repeatedly included as a Texas Rising Star in Texas Monthly Magazine.
Her firm, Hargrave Family Law, has also achieved inclusion in U.S. News & World Report’s ranking of Best Law Firms since 2018, achieving Tier 1 ranking in 2023.
Ms. Hargrave and her team focus their practice exclusively on family law, and represent clients throughout the greater Dallas metropolitan area who are either contemplating or going through a divorce. They know the entire family suffers in a high-conflict, lengthy, antagonistic battle. Based on her background in collaborative divorce, Ms. Hargrave encourages clients to approach their divorce using non-adversarial techniques to minimize conflict as much as possible, diminishing the destructive effect on the family. She also encourages clients to hold on to their core values as they go through this stressful process. Ms. Hargrave and her team are especially skilled at helping clients construct creative settlement agreements, helping clients strategize how to work toward the best possible solution, which in turn enables them to better maintain control of the outcomes in their case. Empowering clients to craft a solution that serves their family’s interest is the focus. Her firm specializes in addressing the many different areas involved in a divorce, including: dividing marital assets and liabilities, child custody and visitation, child support, mental health issues, and others. As well-seasoned litigators, Ms. Hargrave and her team is also prepared and equipped to provide a strong courtroom presence when necessary to advocate for their clients. The priorities are always protecting what clients value the most and helping them get on with their life.
Ms. Hargrave and her team also regularly prepare prenuptial agreements and cohabitation agreements, and assist clients who are seeking modifications to child support and parenting orders.
Highly regarded by her peers for the sensitive and ethical way that she handles these matters, Ms. Hargrave and her team focus on finding creative solutions for long-term outcomes. This empowers clients to reach a resolution in a manner that is consistent with their values, and to start a brand new chapter with hope.