TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Stacey Shrader Joslin on Jan 26, 2024

Sullivan County lawyer Charles Brandon Sproles has received a public censure from the Tennessee Supreme Court. Sproles represented a grandmother in successfully seeking child support for the grandchild of whom she had legal custody. But he delayed more than eight months in entering an order setting the child support despite multiple requests from the client. In the intervening eight months, the grandmother received some of the owed child support by opening a case for child support with the local state child support office on her own. The court found Sproles’ actions violated Rules of Professional Conduct 1.3, 3.4 and 8.4(d). The court also conditioned the censure on Sproles paying the client restitution in the amount of $1,572 within 90 days.