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West Chester Family Law Lawyer
Overview
Lance Nelson, chair of MacElree Harvey, Ltd.'s family law practice, has over 25 years of experience representing clients in family law matters such as divorce, marital agreements, adoption, custody, and support. For his business clients, Lance advises on a variety of legal issues, including contract disputes, construction issues, corporate control issues and other aspects of day-to-day business disputes...
Lance Nelson, chair of MacElree Harvey, Ltd.'s family law practice, has over 25 years of experience representing clients in family law matters such as divorce, marital agreements, adoption, custody, and support. For his business clients, Lance advises on a variety of legal issues, including contract disputes, construction issues, corporate control issues and other aspects of day-to-day business disputes...
Lance Nelson, chair of MacElree Harvey, Ltd.'s family law practice, has over 25 years of experience representing clients in family law matters such as divorce, marital agreements, adoption, custody, and support. For his business clients, Lance advises on a variety of legal issues, including contract disputes, construction issues, corporate control issues and other aspects of day-to-day business disputes.
Since joining MacElree Harvey in 1992, Lance was named a shareholder in 1998 and served as the Managing Partner from 2001 to 2011.
Notable Representations
- Successfully represented in a non-jury trial a non-profit organization to resolve certain corporate governance issues that were raised by a dissident group of members.
- Counseled a father with a significant interest in a family-owned business. Worked with client and client's spouse's counsel to resolve issues related to the value of the family-owned business, the division of the marital property, an equally shared custody arrangement and ongoing support obligations without resorting to any court intervention.
- Worked with a mother whose husband owned a substantial business. Through many court hearings in the litigation process, successfully resolved for this mother all of the issues related to the value of the husband's business, a custody schedule, appropriate support payments and the division of the marital property.
- Counseled children who own significant portions of multigeneration family-owned business through the prenuptial process. Helped young man navigate an already stressful pre-wedding situation and address the consequences of his ownership in a multi-million dollar family business without injecting more stress with his fiance.
- Represented a professional service firm through the arbitration process when a former owner left taking many clients with him. Through the arbitration, successfully secured for the majority owner enforcement of certain financial and other obligations of the departing shareholder.
- After a multi-day non-jury trial, successfully secured a substantial judgment for a custom builder that included not only sums that were due under the contract, but lost profits.
About Lance J. Nelson
Practice Areas
- Family Law 100%
Litigation
- 95%
Current Employment Position(s)
- Partner
Qualifications
Bar Admissions
- Pennsylvania, 1991
- Delaware, 1991
- U.S. District Court Eastern District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. District Court Middle District of Pennsylvania
- U.S. Court of Appeals 3rd Circuit
Other Affiliations
- Chester County Bar Association, 2011 - Present (President)
- Pennsylvania Bar Association, Task Force on Balance and Quality of Life, 1999 - 2001
- Delaware State Bar Association
- American Inns of Court (John E. Stively Inn)
- Legal Aid of Chester County (Board Member)
- Supreme Court of Pennsylvania Disciplinary Board Hearing Committee, 2001 - 2008
Education
- Villanova University School of Law, Villanova, Pennsylvania
Honors: cum laude
Honors: Order of the Coif - Boston College
B.A.
Major: Economics
Major: Political Science
Past Positions
- Small Trial Firm in Wilmington Delaware
Pro Bono Activities
- West Chester University – Presidential Scholarship Steering Committee, Chairman, 2001 - 2002
- West Chester Business Improvement District, Chairman, 2004 - 2005
- West Chester Downtown Foundation, Chairman, 2009 - 2010
- Basketball Coach – St. Agnes CYO and West Chester Lightening Leagues
- West Chester Public Library, Board Member, 2011 - Present
Achievements
Other Sources of Feedback About Lance J. Nelson
Included on the 2023 Pennsylvania list
Past Lists
- 2022 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2021 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2020 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2019 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2018 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2017 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2016 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2015 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2014 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2012 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2011 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
- 2010 Pennsylvania Super Lawyers list
Honors
- AV Preeminent peer rating, Martindale-Hubbell
- Main Line Today Top Lawyers, 2009 - 2018
- Selected to Pennsylvania Super Lawyers, 2010 - 2018
- Outstanding Citizen - Greater West Chester Chamber of Commerce, - 2009
Office Information
Address
17 West Miner Street West Chester, PA 19382
Phone
Fax
- 610-429-4486
- 610-430-7885
Accepts Credit Cards
Yes
Websites
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