Chad Alan Olsen

Practicing law since 2005, I now devote most of my practice to helping families resolve conflict out of court. Many of my clients are faced with either divorce or legal issues that sometimes follow divorce. And while family conflict of any form is immensely difficult, I strive to help my clients clearly identify and assess the major legal issues that can be hidden amidst broken relationships. In every case, I teach my clients practical conflict resolution skills for the issues they face now and those that lie in the road ahead. And as often as I'm able, I steer them toward client-driven processes that help to both minimize exposure to unnecessary conflict and facilitate creative, custom-tailored solutions within safe and confidential processes outside of the courthouse.

Over the last few years, I've also acquired a great deal of experience handling proceedings to clarify and enforce the division of federal retirement benefits (both military and federal civil service), representing both retirees and former spouses. This is an area of family law that often presents complex issues due to the ever-present tension between federal law, which controls these federal retirement benefits, and state law, which controls the division of marital property.

My practice areas include divorce, collaborative law, mediation, adoption, division of retirement benefits, wills and probate.