FAMILY LAW

Established, effective and compassionate

My focus is always on the best interests of my clients and the children impacted by a marital or parental responsibilities (“custody”) dispute. Well prepared, aggressive representation is the most effective way to reach resolution in or out of the courtroom.

• Divorce or legal separation: I handle all components of divorce, including marital asset and debt division, parenting time, child support, and spousal maintenance.
  
  
• Child support:
  • Determination of child support during the divorce process and for permanent orders.
  • Determination of child support payments involving parents who never married.
  • Collecting child support through income garnishment and other means, or defense of allegations that you are in arrears.
  • Modification: When circumstances change substantially, applying for post-divorce modification of child support.

• Parental decision-making: I help divorcing parents or unmarried parents seek joint or sole parental decision-making orders or agreements.
• Parenting time: I help my clients arrange for fair, age-appropriate parenting time that protects their relationship with their children. I assist with modifying parenting time, whether as a result of changed circumstances or relocation.
• Grandparent Visitation and Allocation of Parental Responsibilities.
• Spousal maintenance: When appropriate, one divorcing spouse may obtain an order of support from the other. I also handle modification of spousal maintenance when circumstances require a change.
• Marital agreements, including premarital agreements and separation agreements.
• Domestic partnership planning and dissolution.

EMPLOYMENT LAW

Comprehensive knowledge, proven expertise

I represent a broad range of private and public sector employees in a wide variety of workplace matters. I also provide representation to small to mid-size companies. This enables me to see both sides of a dispute, which facilitates settlement and allows me to anticipate potential arguments and defenses.

My experience includes the following:

• Workplace investigations
• Employee benefits
• Employee handbooks
• Employee privacy
• Employment contracts and independent contractor issues
• Employment discrimination
• Mediation
• Non-competition agreements and restrictive covenants
• Sexual harassment
• Same-sex sexual harassment
• Wage and hour law
• Workplace violence and safety
• Wrongful/retaliatory termination

I encourage the use of, and have successfully utilized, mediation to minimize the time and expense related to resolving employment disputes.

CIVIL LITIGATION

Proven Results, Collaborative Solutions

I fight for your rights, hold others accountable, and work hard to get you the money you deserve. My goal is to provide my clients with aggressive representation emphasizing practical, cost-effective solutions to their problems.

I have years of experience navigating the courts for my clients, handling commercial and general civil disputes. I have represented clients at the trial and appellate level.

My experience includes:

• contract disputes
• collection
• fraud and misrepresentation
• noncompetition agreements and trade secret disputes
• interference with business relations
• landlord/tenant disputes
• real estate related matters, including actions to quiet title, obtain easements, protect property from claims of prescriptive easement, REA disputes and slander of title actions.