About Bill Jones, Memphis Divorce Attorney

From The Mid-South Divorce Guide, by William W. Jones IV, a
Memphis family law attorney and Rule 31 Listed Family Mediator licensed
in Tennessee and Mississippi. This guide covers Shelby, Tipton and
Fayette Counties in Tennessee and DeSoto, Tate and Tunica Counties in
Mississippi.

Questions this page answers

• Who is Bill Jones?
• What is a Rule 31 Listed Family Mediator?
• What counties does the firm serve?
• How do I schedule a consultation?

William W. “Bill” Jones IV has practiced law since
2002. He is a Memphis family law attorney and a Rule 31 Listed Family
Mediator, licensed in Tennessee (BPR 022869) and Mississippi (BPR
100707), and a Super Lawyers selectee every consecutive year from 2014
through 2026.

His practice covers divorce, custody, post-judgment matters, juvenile
defense, business disputes, probate, and estate planning. He works in
Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette Counties in Tennessee, and in DeSoto, Tate,
and Tunica Counties in Mississippi, which is the reason this book covers
both sides of the state line.

As a Rule 31 Listed Family Mediator he also sits as the neutral in
other lawyers’ cases, which is a useful thing for a client to know about
the person representing them. It means he has spent a great many days
watching what actually moves a case toward settlement and what only
makes people angrier, from the one seat in the room that has no
side.

From 2006 through 2021 he was a featured guest on Ask Lawyer Bill, a
weekly segment on the popular Drake and Zeke morning show. Fifteen years
of answering listener questions on the air is where a lot of people
around here first heard the name, and it is a decent part of why this
book sounds the way it does.

He and his wife live in the Mid-South, where he serves as an elder at
his church and on the Olive Branch, Mississippi Planning Commission.

The Jones Law Firm
5100 Poplar Avenue, Suite 708
Memphis, Tennessee 38137
901-761-5353
bill@midsouthdivorce.com
midsouthdivorce.com

If you want to talk

Consultations are by appointment. Before you come in, fill out the
blank forms at the back of this guide and bring them. You will get more
out of the hour and it will cost you less.

Bring your questions on paper, because that room is disorienting and
people go blank in it. Bring your documents. Bring your honest version
of the facts, including the parts you would rather not say out loud,
because I have heard them before and I cannot help you with a fact I do
not know about.

And have two or three consults before you decide. I mean that.

I said at the front of this that I was not going to lie to you
anywhere in this book, so here is the closing honest part.

Nothing in these pages will make your divorce easy. That is not on
offer. What it can do is put you in the room with some idea of what the
room is for.

You are going to have days in the next year where you handle this
badly. Everybody does. What matters is the pattern, not the worst
afternoon.

Be the reasonable one. Keep your paperwork clean. Do not use your
children as a weapon or a witness or a support system. Save your fights
for the things that will still matter in five years, and there are fewer
of those than it feels like right now.

And when it is over, let it be over.

A year from now the file is closed, somebody else’s case is the one
being called in that courtroom, and yours is a folder in a drawer. What
your life actually looks like by then is not in the folder.

Come see me if you need me.

Bill Jones The Jones Law Firm 901-761-5353
midsouthdivorce.com

This guide is general legal information about Tennessee and
Mississippi law. It is not legal advice, it does not create an
attorney-client relationship, and it is not a substitute for consulting
a lawyer about your own facts. The law described here was current as of
the fall of 2026 and changes regularly. Judges apply the law with
discretion, and outcomes vary. Talk to a licensed attorney before you
act on anything you read here.

Copyright 2026 William W. Jones IV. All rights reserved.

This guide was written for this book. Where it states what the
law is, it quotes or paraphrases published Tennessee and Mississippi
statutes, court rules, and reported decisions, and it cites them so you
can go read them yourself. Statutory language is quoted as the
legislature wrote it, because that is the point of quoting a
statute.

You are welcome to download this guide, print it, and give it to
anyone who needs it, provided you pass it along complete and unaltered
with this notice and the author’s name intact. That permission does not
extend to reproducing it in whole or in part in any other publication,
to republishing it under another name or another firm’s branding, to
selling it, to stripping the attribution, or to using it as source text
for a derivative work. Those uses require written permission, which is
available by asking.

If you are another attorney and you would like to hand this to
your own clients, call me. The answer is usually yes.

Download the whole guide. All 35 chapters plus four blank client forms, complimentary, no email required. Download The Mid-South Divorce Guide (PDF)

Questions about your own situation? The Jones Law Firm, 5100 Poplar Ave, Suite 708, Memphis, TN 38137. Call (901) 761-5353.