David Purvis is a partner at The Manely Firm, P.C. in Savannah, Georgia, representing families across Southeast Georgia—including Chatham, Liberty, Bulloch, Effingham, and Bryan counties—and handling complex domestic and international family-law matters. He has extensive Hague experience worldwide, regularly serves pro hac vice on intricate matters throughout the United States, and has tried international child-abduction cases in federal courts in Florida and Georgia. David has argued before the Supreme Court of Georgia and the Court of Appeals, served as a Special Assistant Administrative Law Judge for the State’s Child Abuse Registry, and taught Family Law and Domestic Relations as an adjunct professor at Savannah Law School. He frequently presents CLEs on family-law trends, assisted reproduction, and surrogacy, and collaborates with founding attorney Michael Manely on high-stakes matters. Located near Fort Stewart and Hunter Army Airfield, David also handles military divorce, custody, and support issues. Active in the community, he chairs the Wilmington Island Presbyterian Preschool Board, serves as an elder, and has received multiple regional honors including Georgia Trend’s Legal Elite and Super Lawyers recognition.
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