About
Rachele Leigh Cummins is a lawyer in Jeffersonville, Indiana, serving individuals, families, and small businesses through a broad general practice. Her work includes real estate, bankruptcy, family law, probate and estate planning, civil litigation, guardianships, personal injury, planning and zoning, and business matters. She assists clients with residential and commercial real estate transactions, closings, leasing, sales, easements, deeds, zoning, boundary concerns, land use issues, and real estate litigation.
Ms. Cummins earned her B.A. in Psychology from Indiana University Southeast in 1997 and her J.D., cum laude, from Indiana University School of Law in 2000. She was admitted to practice in Indiana in 2000. She is also admitted to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana. Her education and admissions support a practice that combines transactional work, litigation, and client counseling across several areas of law.
Ms. Cummins helps clients in family law matters involving divorce, custody, parenting time, support, paternity, and related disputes. She also serves as a Guardian Ad Litem, advocating for children in custody and parenting time cases. Her bankruptcy practice helps debtors address serious financial pressure, while her creditor work includes collection matters, foreclosure issues, and debtor defense.
Rachele Leigh Cummins also helps clients prepare wills, living wills, healthcare directives, powers of attorney, and other estate planning documents. Her business practice includes formation, operating agreements, buy-sell agreements, and contracts. Clients value her direct involvement, clear explanations, practical solutions, and steady guidance through legal matters that often affect property, finances, family relationships, and business decisions.
Law Office Affiliations
- Partner, Smith Carpenter Cummins & Schulte, LLC
- Member, Indiana State Bar Association
Licensed State
- Indiana
Education
- Indiana University School of Law
Juris Doctor (JD) - Indiana University
Bachelor of Arts (BA)
Awards & Badges
- Adoption
- Alimony
- Bankruptcy
- Business
- Business Litigation
- Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
- Chapter 13 Bankruptcy
- Child Custody
- Child Support
- Civil Rights
- Commercial Real Estate
- Consumer
- Contracts & Agreements
- Corporate & Incorporation
- Creditor Debtor Rights
- Criminal Defense
- Debt & Lending
- Divorce & Separation
- Domestic Violence
- Elder Law
- Equipment Finance & Leasing
- Estate Planning
- Expungement
- Family
- Foreclosure
- Government
- Government Contracts
- Government Finance
- Guardianship
- Health Care
- Land Use & Zoning
- Lawsuits & Disputes
- Litigation
- Mediation & Collaborative Law
- Paternity
- Personal Injury
- Power of Attorney
- Probate
- Real Estate
- Residential Real Estate
- Social Security & Disability
- Speeding & Traffic Tickets
- Title & Boundary Issues
- Trusts
- Wills & Living Wills
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