Marcellino Moore PLLC

Focus and practice areas

Marcellino Moore PLLC works across three main areas: family law, business law and civil litigation. The firm takes clients in North Carolina and South Carolina. Both offices are in Charlotte.

The family law side covers divorce, child custody, child support and alimony. The site also lists property distribution, domestic violence matters and separation agreements. Prenuptial and postnuptial agreements are part of the same practice.

Business work runs from business formation and contracts through corporate counsel and startup matters. The firm handles partnership disputes and breach of contract claims. Employment contracts and noncompete agreements appear on the same list.

The wider service list

Beyond those three pillars, the firm names several other areas. ERISA claims, long-term and short-term disability claims and health insurance claims are among them. Construction law, liens and real estate disputes round out the litigation side.

Estate work is on the list too: estate administration, wills, trusts and powers of attorney. That is a broad menu for a firm of this size. In my opinion the breadth makes sense once you notice how many of these areas feed each other.

Where the practice areas overlap

A divorce with a closely held business in the marital estate needs both family law and business valuation thinking. A partnership dispute between spouses touches both as well. Estate documents get rewritten after a separation agreement is signed.

The firm's mix covers those crossings under one roof. A client with a family law matter and a company to protect does not have to brief two sets of lawyers on the same set of facts. That is a practical argument for the shape of the list.

How the team is built

The home page names four lawyers. Matthew Marcellino and Jennifer Moore lead the firm. Clay Campbell is an equity partner.

Bryan Tyson continues with the firm as Of Counsel. That title usually signals a lawyer who keeps an ongoing relationship with a firm without partner responsibilities. It often applies to a founder who is stepping back from day-to-day management while staying available on matters.

The name change

The firm announces on its home page that Marcellino & Tyson PLLC changed its name to Marcellino Moore PLLC. Jennifer Moore's name now sits in the firm name alongside Matthew Marcellino's. Bryan Tyson's move to Of Counsel and the name change happened together.

Renaming a law firm is administrative work with real cost. Signage, bar registrations, trust account records, filed appearances and client engagement letters all have to catch up. Firms usually do it when the leadership on the letterhead has genuinely changed, which is what the announcement describes here.

What family law matters involve in the Carolinas

The following is general context on how these matters proceed, not a description of the firm's individual cases.

North Carolina requires spouses to live separate and apart for a full year before either can file for absolute divorce. That waiting period shapes the whole timeline. Claims for property distribution and alimony have to be filed before the divorce judgment is entered, or they are lost.

That deadline drives much of the early work. A separation agreement signed during the waiting year can settle property, support and custody without a courtroom. When the parties cannot agree, those claims go to a district court judge.

Custody and support

Custody in North Carolina turns on what serves the child's interests. Most counties require the parties to attempt mediation before a custody trial. A parenting coordinator may be appointed in higher-conflict cases.

Child support in both Carolinas runs off state guidelines that plug in each parent's income, the overnight schedule and costs like health insurance and childcare. Judges can deviate from the guideline figure, but they have to explain why. Alimony is more discretionary, with statutes listing factors a judge weighs.

South Carolina runs a separate system with its own family courts and its own waiting periods. A firm licensed in both states can keep a matter moving when a family splits across the border. Charlotte sits close enough to that border for the question to come up often.

The business side of the practice

Business formation work is front-loaded. Choosing between an LLC and a corporation, drafting an operating agreement, setting out how a partner exits: those decisions get made once and then govern for years. Most partnership disputes trace back to a document that was never written or was written too fast.

Contract work follows the same pattern. A well-drafted noncompete has a defined territory, a defined time limit and a legitimate business interest behind it. North Carolina courts read noncompetes narrowly and will refuse to enforce one that reaches too far.

When business matters become litigation

Breach of contract claims start with the document, then move to what the parties actually did. Discovery in a commercial case means emails, invoices, accounting records and depositions. Many of these matters settle at mediation, which North Carolina superior courts order in most civil cases.

Construction disputes and liens have their own rules. A claim of lien on real property has to be filed within 120 days of the last furnishing of labor or materials in North Carolina, and an action to enforce it within 180 days. Missing those windows ends the lien claim.

ERISA and disability claims sit in a different procedural world. A denied long-term disability claim under an employer plan usually goes through an internal appeal first, and the record built during that appeal is often the only record a federal judge will later see. Getting the medical evidence in early matters a great deal.

What the listing shows

Marcellino Moore PLLC publishes profiles on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X and YouTube. The firm's structured site data lists all five. That is more channels than many firms of this size maintain.

The site does not state a founding year. It does not publish biographies, law schools or admission years for the four named lawyers. As a reviewer, those are the details worth adding to a listing that already names its leadership clearly.

What the site does make plain is who runs the firm and what it handles. Four lawyers are named with their roles. Two Charlotte offices, two states of practice and three core areas are stated on the home page.