Portland, OR
Probate Lawyer at Portland, OR
Practice Areas: Probate, Estate Planning, Elder Law
OUTCOME: On behalf of granddaughter, negotiated continued involvement in grandmother's care and consideration of family member as guardian.
State sought appointment of guardian and conservator for elderly woman after allegations of financial abuse by granddaughter.
OUTCOME: Successfully negotiated safety-focused parenting plan and child support.
Divorce following husband's conviction of domestic assault against wife. Wife contended with numerous safety concerns while attempting to represent herself in divorce.
OUTCOME: Court ordered visits with child's real mother and for state agency to provide services to mother.
Teen had been raised by his aunt since age 3 with no contact from his mother. Teen spent 17 months in foster care without state child welfare agency notifying his legal parents. While running CASA prog ... ram, determined teen's purported parents had never legally adopted him and located his biological mother.
OUTCOME: Successfully negotiated satisfactory division of assets that met client's and husband's goals.
Divorcing couple disputed division of their numerous rental properties. Wife's goal was to maximize her rental income. Husband's goal was to retain contiguous pieces of land in hope of redeveloping the ... real property in the future.
OUTCOME: Default custody judgment upheld. Child reunited with father.
Following divorce, mother failed to comply with parenting plan and disappeared to Alaska with child. Assisted father in locating mother through child's school records. Obtained default custody modifica ... tion against mother as first step in getting local law enforcement to assist in returning child. Mother sought to quash default judgment to retain custody.
OUTCOME: Restraining order dismissed. Father later awarded custody in separate proceeding.
Father disputed custody provisions in restraining order. Mother was living with convicted sex offender.
OUTCOME: Amicable settlement negotiated in which parents moved in and out of children's "home base" and maintained separate residences for when they were not having parenting time with children.
Parents sought to provide stability in their children's lives by maintaining single residence for their children.
OUTCOME: Immediate visitation ordered. Mother's contempt motion denied.
Parental alienation case in which father sought to modify and enforce parenting time after mother moved out of state. Mother sought to hold father in contempt for failure to bring child support curren ... t.
OUTCOME: Business distributed in trust to children's mother before estate closed to facilitate running of family-owned gift store. Proposed sale of home blocked.
Deceased left entire estate to her minor grandchildren. Deceased's daughter-in-law encountered numerous problems running family business due to constraints created by personal representative. Grandchil ... dren's mother also sought to block personal representative's plans to sell grandmother's home.
OUTCOME: Negotiated settlement satisfactory to parties.
High-asset divorce case involving bar pilot with concerns about long-term spousal support.
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