Professional Experience
Family Law
Jason Castle has experience handling all aspects of family law matters, including, but not limited to, paternity, annulment, child custody, parenting time, child support, spousal maintenance, business valuations, Orders of Protection, and post-decree matters involving enforcement or modification of the original Decree. He is admitted to practice in the State of Arizona and the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.
Mr. Castle’s most recent family law experiences include:
- Dissolution of marriage involving a complex family business that had several investments in property around the world;
- Obtained a modification of custody based on allegations of child abuse;
- Defended against a modification of custody and parenting time based on allegations of sexual abuse. Father was ultimately awarded custody of his child;
- Establishing paternity and obtained joint custody with reasonable parenting time for father despite allegations of drug use;
- Dissolution of Marriage involving the division of multi-million dollar community business, custody, spousal maintenance, and child support;
- Successfully obtained an Annulment of marriage;
- Enforcement of child support and spousal maintenance awards with attorney fees in a matter involving thousands of dollars owed by Father; And,
- Establish mother’s right to relocate with her children outside the state.
Criminal Defense
Mr. Castle has experience defending all aspects of traditional criminal vioaltions. As a former prosecutor with the City of Phoenix, Jason tried over a hundred jury trials and hundreds of non-jury trials involving a large range of alleged violations to the criminal and/or municipal code. Jason’s criminal practice focuses primarily on misdemeanor crimes such as DUI, assault, disorderly conduct, domestic violence and traffic offenses.
Mr. Castle’s most recent criminal defense experiences include:
- Defense of Driving Under the Influence (DUI);
- Defense of disorderly conduct;
- Defense of criminal speeding;
- Defense of public intoxication;
- Defense of dog barking,
- Defense of fictitious registration; And,
- Enforcement of Order of Protection.
Education and Honors
- Indiana University, BA General Studies
- University of Cincinnati: MA Social Work
- Case Western Reserve University: JD
Bar Admissions
Memberships and Associations
- Maricopa County Bar Associate, Chair for the Family Law Section.
- Arizona State Bar Associate, member of the Family Law and Criminal Law sections;
- Association of Family and Conciliation Courts member.
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