At Kelly, Arndt & Walker, we have dedicated our practice to helping individuals, families, and businesses. We are dedicated to professionally guiding you through your legal needs. We have helped hundreds of clients throughout Whidbey Island and beyond.
We work in many areas of the law including: wills, trusts and other estate planning; probate and post-mortem estate and trust administration; real property matters including easements, boundary line adjustments and corrections, sales, land use issues, timber trespass, quiet title actions, adverse posession, and homeowners and condominium owners association formations, business formations, contract preparation, review, and litigation; family law; adult guardianships; personal injury, and criminal defense.
We work in many areas of the law including: wills, trusts and other estate planning; probate and post-mortem estate and trust administration; real property matters including easements, boundary line adjustments and corrections, sales, land use issues, timber trespass, quiet title actions, adverse posession, and homeowners and condominium owners association formations, business formations, contract preparation, review, and litigation; family law; adult guardianships; personal injury, and criminal defense.
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The attorneys at Kelly, Arndt & Walker have a combined total of over ninety years of experience. The matters they handle range from real property to family law, adult guardianships, estate planning, estate administration, and more. For better insight our areas of practice, please visit the "Areas of Practice" page.
Doug has practiced law for over 40 years. Along with his J.D., Doug holds a B.S. in Psychology from the University of Washington, which he earned in 1972. After graduating from the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now Seattle University School of Law) in 1976, he served as a Civil Deputy Prosecuting Attorney for Cowlitz County for two years.
Charles Arndt brings a diversity of legal experience, out-of-the-box thinking, and small-town common sense to his practice. He believes the law is a powerful tool to help solve problems, even when it takes a unique or novel approach to get the job done. Charles graduated from the University of Washington Law School in 1990 after pursuing undergraduate work in music and philosophy.
Matthew Walker grew up in the Chicago area of Illinois, which instilled in him traditional Midwestern Values of honesty and integrity. He moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2002 to finish his legal education at Seattle University. During his time at law school, Matthew co-authored two law review articles which appeared in the Indiana Law Review and the University of Kansas Law Review.
We believe that every client needs an estate plan, regardless of net worth.
By creating an incapacity plan (which may include durable powers of attorney, living trusts, health care directives (living wills), mental health advance directives, etc.), clients take control of deciding who will assist them in managing affairs during a period of incapacity, establish a succession of backup decisionmakers, deciding whether to place limits on the extent of authority the person will have, providing declarations of certain key health care wishes, and preventing family having to engage in expensive and invasive court proceedings to establish a legal proxy for decisionmaking.
By creating an incapacity plan (which may include durable powers of attorney, living trusts, health care directives (living wills), mental health advance directives, etc.), clients take control of deciding who will assist them in managing affairs during a period of incapacity, establish a succession of backup decisionmakers, deciding whether to place limits on the extent of authority the person will have, providing declarations of certain key health care wishes, and preventing family having to engage in expensive and invasive court proceedings to establish a legal proxy for decisionmaking.
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Mike Brown
Jun 29, 2021
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My wife filed to divorce me after I was going through emotional distress from both of my parents passing away. I was going through therapy due to their passing and emotional abuse in my marriage. I was at my lowest and surrounded myself with descent people to help me through this.
The entire time this office abused me in documents and in court. My lawyer and myself provided all information requested and tried to be reasonable.
In mediation they also came back with unreasonable requests due to their lack of negotiation skills. We came to an agreement because the mediator was particularly good
The entire time this office abused me in documents and in court. My lawyer and myself provided all information requested and tried to be reasonable.
In mediation they also came back with unreasonable requests due to their lack of negotiation skills. We came to an agreement because the mediator was particularly good
Barbara Joy Laffey
Jun 21, 2021
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Nic McWilliams
May 30, 2020
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Kelley Miles
Aug 03, 2019
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