Feature Article #1
Collaborative Divorce: A Way Forward
Collaborative divorce offers the confidence that comes along with having a lawyer during divorce and the relief of avoiding confrontational divorce.
Both parties hire lawyers and those divorce lawyers represent just the single client’s interest during the divorce. Most of the time, a collaborative divorce ends in a satisfactory settlement, often accomplished with the help of [...]
Feature Article #2
Our Focus: Divorce (Dissolution of Marriage)
A divorce (called a dissolution of marriage by lawyers and judges) is the legal process for ending a marriage.
Issues that are often addressed during a divorce are: custody of the children of the marriage, parenting time, child support, who pays for health insurance for the children, division of debts, division of property (including retirement [...]
Feature Article #3
Child Support Modification in Oregon and Washington
In both Oregon and Washington, parents are entitled to re-calculate their child support obligations if financial circumstances change by filing for a child support modification. Parents in Portland and Vancouver can also take a fresh look at child support if years have passed since the original divorce decree or last child support modification. Oregon has [...]
Feature Article #4
Our Focus: Divorce & Retirement Accounts
Either through agreement or decision of the court, your divorce should address the issue of retirement accounts.
In a divorce, the court has broad authority to arrive at a just and proper division of the spouses’ retirement accounts.
Retirement accounts can raise complex issues, including valuation and vesting, and even the process of dividing retirement accounts can [...]
Feature Article #5
Our Focus: Sorting Out Custody in Divorce
Custody is the answer to the question “Who will make major decisions regarding the child?”
These major decisions could include religious training, health care, education, and where the child will live.
