Top Rated Family Law Attorney in Columbia, SC

Attorney Christopher Archer is a founder and managing attorney of Archer Swearingen Family Law, LLC, in Columbia, South Carolina. A top-rated trial lawyer with more than six years of total legal experience, Mr. Archer provides exceptional counsel and support to a diverse range of clients throughout the Columbia and Lexington metros and all across the Midlands region who have legal needs involving any of the following:

·       Family Law

·       Divorce

·       Child Custody

A compassionate lawyer, Mr. Archer understands that he is dealing with his clients during some of the most difficult and uncertain times in their lives, and he carefully explains their options while delivering the highly personalized counsel they need to make the best-informed decisions on the legal matters they face. Equally effective inside and outside of the courtroom, he has secured many substantial verdicts for his clients at trial and reached favorable settlements with at the negotiation table.

Through his family law practice, Mr. Archer has achieved considerable success guiding his clients through all areas of the divorce process, and he has handled many contested divorce litigations as well as numerous uncontested divorces. He also has extensive experience handling adoptions and name changes.

Honored for his outstanding professionalism and service, Mr. Archer has earned consistent top rankings and endorsements from his peers, and he has received many testimonials and referrals from his satisfied clients.

A 2008 graduate of Columbia College, Mr. Archer received his master's degree in accounting from the University of South Carolina's Darla Moore School of Business in 2010. He then attended the University of South Carolina School of Law, where he obtained his Juris Doctor in 2014. The South Carolina Bar admitted him to practice that same year, and he is also admitted to practice before the U.S. District Court for the District of South Carolina.

Mr. Archer is an active member of the South Carolina Bar, the Richland County Bar Association and the South Carolina Association for Justice, among his other professional affiliations.