Walden briefed National Press Foundation fellows in October 2021: Heirs’ Property Legal Morass.

Joshua F. Walden was born in Mt. Airy, North Carolina, but has lived in South Carolina since 1979. He grew up in Chapin, South Carolina, approximately 20 miles outside of Columbia. He received a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1996. Walden earned his Juris Doctorate from the University of South Carolina School of Law and was admitted to the South Carolina Bar in 2000.

Walden is a member of the South Carolina and Charleston Bar Associations and has practiced primarily in the fields of real property and estate planning/probate law. He has served as a Guardian Ad Litem in the family court for SC Department of Social Services and SC Department of Juvenile Justice cases and is a South Carolina Board Certified Civil Court Mediator. Walden joined the Center in September of 2009 as the Supervising Attorney.

He currently practices law and serves as the Chief Operating Officer with the Center for Heirs’ Property Preservation in Charleston, South Carolina.