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Fletcher Handley is right at home in a family law practice.
As a newly minted lawyer in 1979, Handley joined an Oklahoma family law firm with deep roots in the town of El Reno, where he quickly proved himself and became a partner. More than 25 years later, he ventured off to establish The Handley Law Center, a family law firm of his own that now includes his two sons, Ashton and Alex.
“Our family is pretty close,” says Handley, who has been married to his wife Dianne for 48 years. “I get to spend time with my sons here at the office and then we spend time together as a family. We enjoy playing golf together. We enjoy having meals together.”
Legal careers at Handley Law Center are not all the two sons share in common with their father: All three are also Navy veterans. Handley’s sons served in Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Persian Gulf during the summer of 2003 — Ashton aboard the USS Boxer and Alex aboard the USS Nashville. Both attended college on full Navy scholarships.
“That’s very competitive,” says Handley, “so I was very proud of them to get that.”
Handley says he wouldn’t trade anything for the four years he was in the Navy. After an unsatisfying initial stab at college, Handley enlisted at age 21 and served as an air crewman during the Vietnam era, traveling extensively throughout the Caribbean, Europe, and the North Atlantic.
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