David A. Pumford

Family Law Attorney

Certified Mediator

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Location:

The Toggery Building

2501 14th Street, Suite 203

Gulfport, MS 39501

Office Hours: Please call or email to schedule an appointment.

            Monday           10 am - 5pm
            Tuesday          10 am - 5pm
            Wednesday     10 am - 5pm
            Thursday         10 am - 5pm
            Friday              Closed
            Saturday          Closed
            Sunday            Closed

Phone
(228) 731-6799

Email:

info@pumfordlaw.com

About David A. Pumford, Attorney

Dave graduated from the Cumberland School of Law at Samford University and was admitted to the MS Bar in 1999. He served a judicial clerkship with the late Presiding Justice Michael D. Sullivan. He then joined Erik M. Lowrey, Tom Fortner, and the late Robert “Bob” R. Marshall at Lowrey & Fortner, P.A., in Hattiesburg, MS. Dave opened his own business and has served the MS Gulf Coast since January, 2012.

Dave practices exclusively in family law, with over twenty years of experience before Chancellors in the Eighth, Tenth, and Sixteenth Chancery Court Districts, as well as the Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals.

Prior to his studies at the Cumberland School of Law, Dave earned a Master’s in Political Science & International Relations from The University of Southern Mississippi and a Bachelor of Science in Economics from Swansea University in the United Kingdom.

Bar Memberships

  • American Bar Association

  • Mississippi Bar Association

  • Harrison County Bar Association

Certified Mediator

Dave has been certified in the following mediation areas:

  • Certified Divorce and Family Law Mediations

  • Certified in Domestic Violence Screening

  • Certified in General/Civil Mediations

*Certified in Mississippi

*Registration pending in Alabama

Family Law:

  • Pre- and Post-Nuptials

  • Divorce

  • Child Custody

  • Visitation

  • Paternity

  • Termination of Parental Rights

 

  • Contempt

  • Modification

  • Appeals

 
 

Current Practice Areas:

Eighth Chancery Court District: Harrison, Hancock, & Stone Counties

Tenth Chancery Court District: Forrest, Lamar, Pearl River, Perry, & Marion Counties

Sixteenth Chancery Court District: Jackson County

Mississippi Supreme Court and Court of Appeals