Michelle Broyles, Jacksonville Area Legal Aid, Family Law and Victim Advocacy
Attorney at Law Magazine Jacksonville
by Nancy Kinnally
June 24, 2020
As a child in Kentucky, Michelle Broyles made a little book in school about how she wanted to be a lawyer when she grew up.
“My friend actually saved my picture book,” said Broyles, division chief of JALA’s Family Law and Victim Advocacy Unit. “He kept it, and I didn’t even realize it. I actually made that decision in second grade but had forgotten about it by the time I got to law school until my friend called me to congratulate me on having achieved my life’s goal.”
Driven to help those who can’t help themselves, Broyles also serves on the board of the Family Nurturing Center, which assists JALA clients with supervised visitations and supervised safe exchanges of children, and she volunteers with the Humane Society.
“It might actually stem from my sister,” she said. “She’s about 15 months younger than me, but she was born premature, and she has health issues. She can’t speak, she can’t take care of herself. So, it probably started when I was taking care of her as a toddler and making sure she was safe.”
Broyles was in private practice until August 2018, when she joined JALA to serve survivors of domestic violence.
“We represent and assist survivors of domestic violence, sexual violence and stalking in any type of civil legal proceeding,” Broyles said. “My department focuses on family law cases: divorce, paternity, custody, temporary relative custody, and should it come up, adoption.”
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