Lyne Ranson

Attorney Lyne Ranson is the founder and owner of Lyne Ranson Law Offices, PLLC, in Charleston, West Virginia. A top-rated lawyer with 40 years of legal experience, Ms. Ranson focuses her practice solely on family law, and she provides exceptional counsel and support to clients throughout the state who are going through a divorce or have some other serious legal issue affecting their families.

Handling all areas of family law, Ms. Ranson also has extensive experience with adoptions as well as drafting and enforcing pre- and postnuptial agreements, child support and custody agreements, and other areas. Over the course of her practice, she has gained a reputation for her compassion and integrity when dealing with her clients while helping them achieve their goals and the favorable outcomes they expect and deserve as efficiently and cost-effectively as possible.

In honor of her outstanding professionalism and service, Ms. Ranson has earned consistent designation from her peers as being among the top 2.5% of lawyers in her region, and she received the Special Achievement Award from the U.S. Department of Justice. She has also received numerous testimonials and referrals from her satisfied clients, and she finds great reward in being able to help so many in her community during some of the most difficult and emotionally challenging times in their lives.

Ms. Ranson obtained her Juris Doctor from West Virginia University College of Law in 1982, graduating Order of the Barristers. While there, she was an active member of the Moot court board, and she received the Outstanding Trial Advocate award. She is admitted to practice before all West Virginia state courts as well as before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit.  Lyne was selected to teach at the prestigious ABA Trial Advocacy Institute. 

A leader in her legal community, Ms. Ranson is selected as the Chair of the West Virginia State Bar's Family Law Committee as well as the Chair of the Kanawha County Family Law Bench-Bar Committee, an elected Vice-Chair of the ABA American Bar Association's Family Law Section. She is also a fellow with the prestigious  AAML American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, and she served on the West Virginia Ethics Commission from 1989 to 1991.