Ms. Childs is a partner at Feinman & Childs Family Law, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. Ms. Childs graduated from Villanova University School of Law in 2011, and from the University of Richmond in 2008. Ms. Childs began her focus on family law while still in law school, through interning as a law clerk for the Honorable Katherine B.L. Platt of the Family Court Division of the Chester County Court of Common Pleas, and by serving as a certified legal intern at Villanova’s Civil Justice Clinic, where her practice included family law matters.
Ms. Childs served as Chair of the Montgomery Bar Association’s Young Lawyers Section in 2017 and as Chair of the Montgomery Bar Association’s Family Law Section in 2022. She is a prior council member for the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Law Section, and served as the President of the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court from 2020-2021. She currently sits on the Board of Directors for Legal Aid of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and serves as an Affiliate Attorney with the Women’s Resource Center in Wayne, Pennsylvania. Ms. Childs has been appointed as a guardian ad litem for children in numerous custody and abuse cases and is a certified Parenting Coordinator.
Ms. Childs was the Pennsylvania Reporter for the American Bar Association’s Family Law Quarterly, Law in the 50 States Annual Report, for 2012 through 2015. She has been published several times in the Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Lawyer Magazine. And in 2020, the American Bar Association published a book authored by Ms. Childs, titled “Divorce in the Golden Years: Estate Planning, Spousal Support, and Retirement Issues for Clients and Midlife and Beyond, Second Edition.”
Ms. Childs is a frequent presenter on family law topics for the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court, Pennsylvania Bar Association’s Family Law Section and the Montgomery Bar Association. In September 2024, Ms. Childs presented at the American Bar Association’s Family Law Section Fall Conference in Palm Springs, California.
Ms. Childs has chosen to limit her practice to family law, including the areas of divorce, custody, equitable distribution, child support, alimony, spousal support, enforcement/modification of property settlement agreements, and prenuptial agreements. She has been recognized as a Pennsylvania Super Lawyers Rising Star each year since 2017, and as a Main Line Today Top Lawyer from 2019 through 2024.
