Caroline T. Mitchell

Caroline Mitchell is an experienced and strategic litigator with a collaborative spirit. Caroline has been certified as a Specialist in Family Law by the North Carolina State Bar Board of Legal Specialization since 2019. Of equal importance, Caroline can recognize and seamlessly navigate the emotional component present in complex family law matters. For this reason, Caroline’s balanced and meticulous approach is personalized, efficient, and resolution-minded.

Caroline’s family law practice encompasses premarital agreements, separation agreements, complex equitable distribution with an emphasis on business valuation issues, spousal support, child support, child custody, alienation of affection, criminal conversation, and appeals.

Caroline has been admitted to practice before the Supreme Court of the United States. In addition, Caroline has experience arguing the unconstitutionality of heartbalm actions in various counties and before the Three-Judge Panel, appointed by the Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court, for claims challenging the facial validity of an act of the General Assembly. Caroline is well-respected in Family Law across the State and has been consistently honored in Business North Carolina’s Legal Elite, Best Lawyers® “The Best Lawyers in America,” and Super Lawyers.

Caroline earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Rhetoric and Communication Studies from the University of Richmond, and she earned her Juris Doctor from Wake Forest University School of Law. While in law school, Caroline received honors in advanced family law, trial practice, appellate advocacy and the appellate clinic.

Academic Background

J.D., Wake Forest University School of Law, 2012; Wake Forest Journal of Business and Intellectual Property Law, articles editor; Moot Court Board, associate chief justice
B.A., magna cum laude, Rhetoric and Communication Studies, University of Richmond, 2009

Bar & Court Admissions

North Carolina, 2012
United States Supreme Court, 2019

Affiliations

American Bar Association
North Carolina Bar Association
Association of Family and Conciliation Courts, North Carolina Chapter
Mecklenburg County Bar, Family Law Section Chair/Vice Chair, 2020-2022
Mecklenburg Bar Foundation, Board of Directors, 2019-2022
The Rose Council, Wake Forest University School of Law, 2018-2024
Women’s Impact Fund, 2016-2021
Mint Museum Auxiliary
Council for Children’s Rights
Ronald McDonald House of Charlotte, Board of Directors, 2021-2024

Professional Recognition

Mecklenburg County Bar Leadership Institute Graduate, 2019
American Academy of Matrimonial Lawyers, North Carolina Chapter Law School Student Award
North Carolina Super Lawyers in Family Law, 2025-2027
Business North Carolina Legal Elite in Family Law, 2022-2023

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