•Virginia Cornwell has been certified by the Ohio State Bar Association as a Certified Family Relations Specialist. She is one of approximately 100 attorneys in Ohio to have received this honor.  She is a family law attorney in Columbus, Ohio (Franklin County).  This means that people looking for a divorce lawyer in Columbus Ohio, or looking for a custody or visitation lawyer in Ohio can come to Virginia for legal representation.  She is licensed to practice in all 88 Ohio Counties and will travel for her clients.  Virginia is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court, Southern District of Ohio, and is experienced in matters relating to international family law, international custody and child support matters, international child abduction, and international adoption.

Virginia  has practiced family law in the following counties:

Adams County • Clark County •Delaware County • Fairfield County • Fayette County • Franklin County • Fairfield County . Guernsey County • Jackson County • Jefferson County • Knox County • Lawrence County • Licking County • Madison County • Marion County • Muskingum County • Morrow County • Ottawa County • Perry County • Pickaway County • Pike County • Richland County . Scioto County•Tuscarawus County. Washington County

Virginia has also represented clients living outside of Ohio who need a divorce lawyer, custody lawyer or visitation lawyer in Ohio.  She has represented clients living in:

• Alaska • California • District of Columbia • Florida • Georgia • Kentucky • Maryland • Minnesota • Missouri • Mississippi • Michigan • New York •  North Carolina  • Rhode Island • Virginia • Washington and West Virginia

Virginia has also represented clients from India, Canada, Morocco and Saudi Arabia in their Ohio International Family Law cases, including matters relating to child abduction (kidnapping), divorce, child custody, and child support.  

Virginia has represented husbands, wives, mothers, fathers and grandparents.

Virginia grew up in Anchorage, Alaska .  She graduated from the University of Alaska, Anchorage with a B.A. in Political Science and received her Juris Doctorate (law degree) at The Ohio State University in 1999.  After law school Virginia worked for a former domestic relations Judge and on a consultant basis for several family law firms in Columbus, Ohio before she founded The Law Offices of Virginia C. Cornwell. 

Virginia is the leader of the legal team at the Law Offices of Virginia C. Cornwell.  She founded the firm on the premise that there had to be a better way to practice law and to communicate with clients.  At the Law Offices of Virginia C. Cornwell, our strength is our team, and our clients are part of our team.  We want our clients to feel comfortable that their legal matter is being handled with excellence, and to understand what is happening in his or her case.