Valerie C. Horvath
Client-centered; Family-focused
When you hire Valerie Horvath get ready to be surprised when she returns your phone calls and emails promptly! Valerie is available for modification of custody, modify child support, child custody, protective order, parenting time, and grandparents' rights cases.
Valerie practices family law - divorce, custody, child support, parenting time, paternity - and criminal defense. Valerie has significant experience in domestic violence, all types of partner abuse, narcissism, protective orders and stalking.
Valerie was a judicial officer in both criminal domestic violence and civil protective order courts for 7 years. Before that, she was a deputy prosecuting attorney in the domestic violence unit and protective order court. Now as a defense attorney, Valerie has courtroom experience from every perspective. She previously worked with IMPD detectives at the Julian Center screening Marion County domestic violence cases and trained law enforcement key indicators of escalating violence.
Valerie speaks French and a little Spanish and has represented clients in family based petitions, fiance petitions, removal proceedings, adjustment of status, waiver of inadmissibility and asylum matters.
Valerie served as Deputy General Counsel at the Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles for two years. She has an insider's view on Specialized Driving Privileges, Traffic tickets, and Motor Vehicle Law.
- Criminal Law
- Criminal Appeals, Drug Crimes, Expungement, Fraud, Gun Crimes, Internet Crimes, Sex Crimes, Theft, Violent Crimes
- Immigration Law
- Asylum, Citizenship, Deportation Defense, Family Visas, Green Cards, Immigration Appeals, Investment Visas, Marriage & Fiancé(e) Visas, Student Visas, Visitor Visas, Work Visas
- Traffic Tickets
- Suspended License
- Estate Planning
- Health Care Directives, Trusts, Wills
- Family Law
- Adoption, Child Custody, Child Support, Father's Rights, Guardianship & Conservatorship, Paternity, Prenups & Marital Agreements, Restraining Orders, Same Sex Family Law
- Domestic Violence
- Domestic Violence Criminal Defense, Domestic Violence Restraining Orders, Victims Rights
- White Collar Crime
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Free Consultation
30 minute free phone consultation - Credit Cards Accepted
- Indiana
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- U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana
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- U.S. Immigration Court
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- French: Spoken, Written
- Spanish: Spoken, Written
- Associate
- Gilbert Legal Services
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- REPUTATION.RESPECT.RESULTS
- Of Counsel - Family Law Chair
- McNeelyLaw LLP
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- McNeelyLaw LLP Where We Won’t Settle for Anything Less and Provide Cost-Effective Service We now handle family law matters and can help you with your narcissistic or abusive spouse, modify custody or parenting time, modify child support, establish paternity, father's rights and dads' rights, grandparents' rights, adoptions, guardianships, divorce and dissolution. Is your ex or soon-to-be-ex impossible? Let us handle the hassle of dealing with your ex so you can focus on rebuilding your life post-divorce.
- Partner
- Harshman Ponist Smith & Rayl, LLC
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- Owner
- Horvath Law Firm
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- Solo practitioner focusing on immigration, criminal defense, family law, estate planning and domestic violence issues.
- Chief of Staff
- Indiana Department of Revenue
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- Deputy General Counsel
- Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
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- Master Commissioner
- Marion Superior Court
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- Deputy Prosecuting Attorney
- Marion County Prosecutor's Office
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- Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law
- J.D. (1998)
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- Honors: graduate cum laude (with honors); Dean's List; Nominated IUPUI Outstanding Woman Student Leader 1997
- Activities: Women's Caucus; Dean's Tutorial Society; Moot Court;
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- Indiana University
- B.A. (1991)
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- Commissioner's Award for Excellence
- Indiana Bureau of Motor Vehicles
- Parent Volunteer of the Year
- St. Monica School
- Indiana State Bar
- Member
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- Indianapolis Bar Association
- Member and Gov't Practices Section Board Member
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- St. Thomas More Society
- Member & Board Member
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- American Immigration Lawyers Association
- Member
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- American Bar Association
- Member
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- Legal Staffing for the New Millennium
- Law Journal
- Coming Soon, True North, 5328 West 79th Street
- Horvath Law Firm
- Get ready to cross some things off your "New Year's Resolution" list as Rob Stone and Valerie Horvath jump start your risk management and estate planning for 2018!
- CPR & Lifesaving
- American Red Cross
- Q. if prosecutor lifts msdmnr domestic battery & accepts plea to lesser marijuana charge, how long to end no contact order?
- A: Most of the time, a "No Contact Order" (NCO) is issued pre-trial to prevent the person charged (defendant) from influencing the state's witness (person on NCO). Once the case is no longer pending or "pre-trial", the NCO is terminated. Often, a post-trial NCO will be part of a plea agreement, but cannot be longer than the sentence (jail time and probation). Your attorney and the prosecuting attorney will decide whether or not the NCO terminates when you plead guilty to the lesser misdemeanor marijuana charge.
