We are both compassionate and understanding advisors and fierce legal professionals. We will listen to you and explain your rights and options to you with respect and compassion, and when necessary, fight zealously for the best result for you.  We recognize the often emotionally painful, financially difficult and extremely complex issues that can arise in building, growing or taking a family into a new phase through separation or divorce. We always seek to minimize the trauma while getting the best results for you and your family.

We are here to help you navigate the often complex and emotional processes involved with a wide variety of family law matters, including pre-marital or marital agreements, uncontested, contested or collaborative divorce, adoption, conservatorship, guardianship, elder abuse or other family law matters.  We can do anything from simply advising and guiding you as you  handle your family matter on your own,  to negotiating a property agreement, divorce settlement, parenting agreement or other agreement, drafting petitions and other required court documentation, to representing you in court where necessary.  We are also glad to work with others on your "team" such as financial planners, CPAs, "coaches" and therapists to help ensure that the final result is the best possible one for you and your family.  We recognize that there is no one-size fits all.  For a divorce, while a collaborative process resulting in a negotiated settlement might be right for some, for others a hard-fought court battle may be necessary.  We will help you determine what path is right for you.

In addition to more traditional families, we have experience with and welcome clients with gay, lesbian and other alternative family structures. Without the built-in rules that come from legally recognized marriage, adoption, estate planning, custody, health care directives, conservatorships and other matters can be more complex. We offer both the knowledge and skill and the caring and creativity to help you build the legally binding foundation for a family that you want.

• Pre-Marital and Marital Agreements
  
• Divorce
• Separation
• Custody
• Adoption
• Guardianships
• Conservatorships