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At a Glance
| Firm | Bays Law, P.C. |
| Attorney | P. Randall Bays, Founder |
| Office | 100 S. 7th St., Sierra Vista, AZ 85635 |
| Focus | Family law — divorce, custody, child support, and military-specific issues including military divorce and retirement — across Cochise County |
| Founded | 1994, by P. Randall Bays |
| Background | Former Marine Corps Judge Advocate and former Assistant U.S. Attorney |
Sources: firm website (bayslaw.com), Avvo, Justia Lawyer Directory, Martindale.com. Compiled August 2026.
Origin
Military Law Background, Then a Civilian Practice Built Around It
P. Randall Bays gained his early legal and courtroom experience as a military lawyer — a former Marine Corps Judge Advocate — and as a former Assistant U.S. Attorney, before founding Bays Law in Sierra Vista in 1994. He is a former City Attorney for Tombstone, Arizona. His military background is directly relevant to the firm’s core client base: Sierra Vista sits adjacent to Fort Huachuca, and a large share of the area’s family law matters involve active-duty or veteran families.
Practice
Family Law, With a Military Specialty
Per the firm’s own materials, Bays Law limits its practice primarily to family law: divorce, custody, paternity, child support, alimony, spousal maintenance, retirement and military retirement division, relocation, grandparent rights, adoption, and parental rights, along with military-specific matters including the Hague Convention on international child abduction. The firm also handles some DUI and other criminal matters, and general civil practice covering Cochise County including Fort Huachuca, Bisbee, Benson, Douglas, Tombstone, and Willcox.
Track Record
No independently verifiable, itemized case-result compilation was located in the sources reviewed for this profile; family law matters generally resolve through negotiated settlement or family court orders rather than published verdicts.
Past-Results Disclaimer: Every case is different, and no past result guarantees a similar outcome in any future matter.
Client Voice
Client reviews collected on Lawyers.com describe Bays as having “handled everything for us and went over an[d] above anything I would have expected,” and another reviewer, describing a complex multi-state custody matter, wrote that Bays “will deliver what he promises” and is “very reasonable… and very ethical.” No negative reviews were located in the sources reviewed for this profile.
Community
Bays served as City Attorney for the historic community of Tombstone, Arizona, per his professional biography; no further independently verifiable civic or charitable involvement was located in the sources reviewed for this profile.
Recognition
Bays has received an American Bar Association LAMP (Lawyer Assistance for Military Personnel) award for outstanding legal services, was selected to the Moot Court Honors Board in law school, and received two Navy Achievement Medals for his work as a military tax and legal assistance attorney, per his professional biography. Bays Law also holds a Martindale.com Client Champion designation based on aggregated client review scores. No State Bar of Arizona Board of Legal Specialization certification was located for Bays, and this profile does not use the word “specialist” for him on that basis.
The Arizona Legal Backdrop
What follows is general legal information, not legal advice.
Arizona is a community property state, with marital property generally divided under the presumption in A.R.S. § 25-211. Child custody — termed “legal decision-making and parenting time” under Arizona law — is decided based on the child’s best interests under the factors listed in A.R.S. § 25-403, and child support follows the Arizona Child Support Guidelines issued under A.R.S. § 25-320. Military divorce cases involving service members add a federal layer — the Servicemembers Civil Relief Act and the Uniformed Services Former Spouses’ Protection Act — on top of Arizona’s state family law framework.
The Awesome Attorneys Assessment
Bays Law’s differentiator is a genuinely rare specialization: a former military JAG running a civilian family law practice adjacent to a major Army post, with direct experience in the federal military-divorce statutes that trip up general family law practitioners. The honest trade-off: this profile located no State Bar board certification for Bays, so the “specialist”-level credentialing here rests on his military legal background and client reviews rather than Arizona’s formal certified-specialist program.
Methodology & Sourcing
This profile was researched in August 2026 from the firm’s own website, Avvo, the Justia Lawyer Directory, and Martindale.com. Bays Law, P.C. did not commission, review, or pay for this profile.
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