Attorneys Serving Ladson, SC

Ladson sits where Dorchester, Berkeley and Charleston counties meet, which makes it the community where “which court?” is asked most often. College Park Road, Ladson Road and the Exchange Park fairgrounds are ten minutes from our office, and we sort out the county question on the first call.

Where a Ladson case is heard

Dorchester County's courthouse complex—the probate court, the clerk of court and General Sessions (felony) court—is in St. George, about 28 miles up Highway 78 from Summerville. The county magistrates sit in St. George and at the Troy Knight Judicial Complex on Deming Way in Summerville, and bond hearings are held at the county detention center on Hodge Road in Summerville.

Ladson is unincorporated, so there is no municipal court; charges go to the magistrate of the county where the stop or arrest happened.

Which county is your Ladson address in?

A Ladson estate is probated in the county where the person lived—Dorchester for addresses off Ladson Road toward Summerville, Berkeley for the College Park Road corridor, Charleston for the southern edge. The county on the property tax bill controls. We check it before filing so the family does not lose weeks to a refiling.

How we help Ladson families

• Estate planning — wills, revocable trusts, powers of attorney and living wills drafted for South Carolina law and recorded in Dorchester County where required.
• Probate and estate administration — opening, administering and closing estates in the Dorchester County Probate Court, small-estate affidavits, and disputes when they arise.
• Guardianship and conservatorship — for an aging parent or a minor, contested or not.
• Criminal defense — bond hearings at the Dorchester County Detention Center on Hodge Road in Summerville, misdemeanors in magistrate and municipal court, and felonies in Dorchester County General Sessions, defended by a former officer.
• Personal injury — car, truck and motorcycle crashes and dog bites, through our dedicated injury site.

Getting to our office from Ladson

Follow College Park Road to US-78, then North Main Street (US-17A), West 2nd South Street, Central Avenue, South Laurel Street, West Carolina Avenue, and turn onto Linwood Lane. The drive is about 6.7 miles and 12 minutes in normal traffic.

Directions from Ladson in Google Maps

About Ladson

Questions people ask

Related pages

• Estate planning

  Wills, trusts, powers of attorney and living wills for South Carolina families.

  Learn more

• Probate

  Estate administration, executor guidance, small estates, disputes and guardianship.

  Learn more

• Criminal defense

  Drug charges, domestic violence, bond, warrants, traffic and expungements.

  Learn more