Family Law

• Divorce
  We may need to take immediate action to protect your interests and your children during a separation period. You may be someone who can file for a simple, uncontested divorce, or you may have significant assets and an angry spouse that complicates matters.
• Child Support
  Child support is determined by the South Carolina Child Support Guidelines. However, the court may deviate from the guidelines when considering other factors such as...
• Child Custody and Visitation
  During these emotional times, it is important to have an attorney to represent you in family court. When you have someone to advocate for you and your children, you can help to shape the future of your family structure and create a child custody or visitation agreement that works for you. By hiring an attorney, you can make sure that your parental voice is heard by the court.
• Adoption
  Your Myrtle Beach adoption attorney at Axelrod and Associates can help you to navigate the often-complex adoption process in SC including step-parent adoptions, grandparent adoptions, and foster care adoptions.
• Premarital Agreement
  The most basic part of the divorce process is property division. Dividing marital or community property helps to ensure that both spouses get a fair portion of the assets that were acquired during the marriage. Unless you have a prenuptial agreement, all assets that you owned before the marriage need to be divided as well.
• Spousal Support
  One of the first questions that many of our divorce clients have is: “I depend on my spouse for financial support; can I get alimony ?â€

Criminal Law

• Criminal Defense
  The juvenile criminal defense lawyers on the Axelrod team understand that, if your child has been charged with a crime in the juvenile court, you are probably feeling confused, lost, and worried...
• DUI/DWI
  In Myrtle Beach and throughout South Carolina, there are several ways to violate the impaired driving laws. Below we provide a general outline of the driving while intoxicated laws and DUI consequences. We have also provided you with some of what prosecutors must prove in order to convict you of committing a DUI in Myrtle Beach. Hiring an experienced Myrtle Beach DUI attorney as soon as possible after your arrest is crucial in obtaining a favorable outcome.
• Wrongful Death
  If your loved one has been killed because of someone else’s negligence or intentional act, the Myrtle Beach wrongful death attorneys at Axelrod & Associates are here to help you recover the maximum compensation you are entitled to under SC law.
• Traffic Violations
  Your Myrtle Beach traffic ticket lawyer on the Axelrod team can help you to resolve speeding tickets and other traffic offenses in the Myrtle Beach area or, in some cases, anywhere in the state of SC.
• Sex Crimes
  The Myrtle Beach criminal sexual conduct lawyers on the Axelrod team know that just the allegation of rape can destroy a person’s reputation, career, and family.
• Robbery
  An armed robbery is where someone uses a deadly weapon to take property from another person – it also covers situations where someone just
• Burglary
  Dwelling and statutory aggravating factors are present (for example, the burglary happened in the nighttime, or the person had a gun during the burglary). Burglary first degree carries a mandatory minimum sentence of 15 years and up to life in prison.
• Theft
• Misdemeanors
  South Carolina law also prohibits drinking alcoholic liquors in public conveyances. There are exceptions for drinking alcoholic liquors in public and these can be found in the South Carolina Code of Laws Section 61-6-4710. A person who violates the open container laws in South Carolina may be found guilty of a misdemeanor and may face fines and even imprisonment.
• Embezzlement
• Drug Crimes
  The drug crimes defense lawyers at Axelrod & Associates have extensive experience defending clients against simple possession charges, possession with intent to distribute (PWID) charges, drug manufacturing charges, drug distribution charges, and drug trafficking charges for most types of drugs, including...
• Assault
  The Myrtle Beach assault and battery defense lawyers at Axelrod and Associates have the experience that you need to get your charges dismissed, find a resolution that meets your goals, or try your case to a jury when necessary.
• Murder
  If you are charged with murder, prosecutors and law enforcement want you in prison. In capital cases, they want you dead.
• Juvenile Crimes
  Adolescents can make mistakes. If your child has been charged with a juvenile offense, contact us today and let us help you get the justice you deserve. In addition to minimizing the criminal penalties of the juvenile crime you or a loved one faces, we may be able to assist you with pretrial intervention (also known as PTI). PTI allows the juvenile to complete a determinate amount of community service, pay any restitution owed and receive extensive counseling. Upon successful completion of PTI, many juvenile criminal charges can be expunged/wiped clean from their criminal record.
• Identity Theft
• Homicide
  Malice aforethought is the specific intent that the State must prove in a homicide case, and, surprisingly, it does not always mean
• Shoplifting
  Shoplifting charges can happen to anyone – young, old, rich, poor, it doesn’t matter. Loss-prevention employees at many of the larger department store chains and other stores are trained to aggressively prevent shoplifting.
• Forgery
  Forgery charges in SC can apply to any “instrument of writing†that was “falsely made,†forged, counterfeited, or published as true (even if you did not forge the document yourself).
• Money Laundering
• Kidnapping
  Aggravated coercion means “to use force or violence of a high and aggravated nature to overcome the victim or another person, if the victim reasonably believes that the actor has the present ability to carry out the threat, or threatens to retaliate in the future by the infliction of physical harm, kidnapping or extortion, under circumstances of aggravation, against the victim or any other person.â€
• Manslaughter
  Although voluntary manslaughter does not require proof of malice aforethought, it does require proof of an intent to kill. It requires that the killing happened after the alleged victim provoked the defendant (sufficient
• Extortion
  The alleged victim submits to the sexual battery, and they were also the victim of forcible confinement, kidnapping, trafficking in persons, robbery, extortion, burglary, housebreaking, or a similar offense, or
• Hit and Run

Business and Corporate Law

• Business Disputes
  Today we have five lawyers with over 100 years of combined experience who practice in a broad range of legal areas, including auto accidents and other types of personal injury, workers’ compensation, traffic tickets and driving under the influence, criminal defense, divorce, child custody and support matters, adoption, Social Security Disability, business law and estate planning.
• Business Transactions

Property Law

• Premises Liability
  Slip and fall accidents are the most common type of premises liability claim, but there are many other types of premises liability claims based on injuries caused by unsafe or defective conditions on a person or business’s property.
• Property Damage
  The Myrtle Beach auto accident attorneys at Axelrod & Associates can help you to recover property damages when the at-fault driver’s insurance company refuses to pay the full value of your property damage claim – including the diminished value of your vehicle.

Health Law

• Personal Injury
  When a business owner or manager fails to keep a facility safe, accidents happen. Slip and fall cases occur when the floors in a public area are not kept clean, dry, and clear of obstructions. This constitutes negligence on the part of the business owner. Because negligence is involved, you can file a personal injury claim if you get hurt in a slip and fall situation.
• Medical Malpractice
  If your baby was left with a permanent disability or suffered injury due to medical malpractice, Axelrod &; Associates, P.A. can fight for you and get the monetary compensation you are entitled to under South Carolina law.
• Auto Accidents
• Social Security Disability
  Many people are unaware of the benefits for which they might qualify if they are disabled and unable to work.
• Dog Bites
  If your dog bites someone, try not to admit fault. Exchange contact information with the victim, and take as many photos as you can of the injuries. Then, contact an attorney right away. In most cases, the owner is liable for the damages, so you may face serious fines for your dog’s behavior. To avoid this, always keep your pet on a leash, do not take them into situations that may make them anxious, and limit their interaction with strangers.

Trusts and Estates

• Estate Planning
  Our estate planning attorneys at Axelrod and Associates help our clients to create estate plans that are tailored to our clients’ unique situations.
• Probate