George D. Spanos, Child Custody Attorney in Nashville, Tennessee

George D. Spanos was raised in Memphis, TN, graduated from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with honors, and has lived in Nashville since obtaining his undergraduate degree. He worked in business acquisitions for Dell, Inc. for four years, when he began attending the Nashville School of Law. Shortly after beginning law school, Mr. Spanos began working at this firm as a paralegal, where he was able to bolster his legal education with practical experience. Mr. Spanos has been married for over fifteen years and is the father of two children.

Having worked for Ms. Rogers and the firm while he attended law school, Mr. Spanos gained valuable insight and significant experience to the practice of law prior to his graduation and subsequent admission to the Bar. Since being licensed as an attorney, Mr. Spanos continues to hone his legal knowledge and trial skills.

He has focused his career on practicing all aspects of family law, including divorce and legal separation, martial contracts, allocation of parental responsibility (custody) actions, child support and spousal support modifications, post decree parenting time disputes, and appeals, as well as probate matters. Mr. Spanos specializes in complex litigation issues, including high asset divorces and high conflict child custody or parenting time disputes.

Additionally, he took part in the Family Law Trial Advocacy Institute which is sponsored by the Family Law Section of the American Bar Association (ABA) and the National Institute for Trial Advocacy (NITA). This annual program is an intensive 8-day trial advocacy and education course where participating attorneys receive hands on training from leading family law trial lawyers and judges across the nation.

Mr. Spanos has received Board Certification by the National Board of Trial Advocacy as a Family Trial Law Advocate. He has also written several scholarly articles on family law matters and has presented on different family law subjects to other practicing attorneys.

Also, Ms. Spanos sits on the Executive Board of the Tennessee Trial Lawyers Association and has also chaired the Association’s Domestic Legislation Committee since 2018, where he helps review proposed changes to family law statutes and meets with legislators to ensure laws are fair to all Tennesseans. Additionally, he is the co-chair of the Tennessee Trial Lawyer’s Domestic Law Seminar, which provides continuing legal education for attorneys across Middle Tennessee.

In January 2023, Mr. Spanos was elected to join the Tennessee Bar Association’s Family Law Executive Council, which helps review family law related legislation statewide rules changes, and promoting legal education for family law practitioners. He was elected Chair-elect for July 2023 – June 2024 and became the Chair of the committee in July 2024.

It was his honor to be selected, from a large number of attorney applicants, as one of the select members of the Nashville Bar Foundation’s Leadership Forum’s 2017-2018 class. He has been named a Rising Star by SuperLawyers each year since 2018 and has also been named as a top 10 attorney under the age of 40 by the National Academy of Family Law Attorneys. In 2023, Mr. Spanos was honored to become an adjunct professor at the University of Memphis in their College of Professional and Liberal Studies. Mr. Spanos chaired the Williamson County Mock Trial competition from 2016-2022.

Mr. Spanos is a passionate advocate and is committed to reaching amicable resolutions for his clients. Going through a divorce or child custody proceeding is one of the most difficult times in anyone’s life, and he works with his clients to tailor his representation to each client’s unique situation and set of facts. He is also a trained Rule 31 Family Law Mediator, who not only settles many of his own cases but mediates for other attorneys and helps them to resolve their client’s family law matters as well. He prefers to help clients reach favorable agreements without the need for expensive, emotionally taxing court battles; however, Mr. Spanos has successfully tried multiple contested trials when settlement was not possible.