I am a native of Bellingham, Washington, was married for a long time and have four children. I continue to enjoy a decent co-parenting relationship with my children's father which I attribute to having resolved our divorce issues by agreement. I graduated from Western Washington University, did a four year law clerkship and passed the bar in 2002.
I became a partner at the firm in Mount Vernon, Washington, where I had worked and done my clerkship for six years. I worked as a traditional, adversarial divorce lawyer at Goddard and Montoure Inc. P.S. for four additional years. During those four years, it became increasingly obvious to me that people going through divorce were unnecessarily traumatized by the structure of the system they were forced to utilize.
I became a partner at the firm in Mount Vernon, Washington, where I had worked and done my clerkship for six years. I worked as a traditional, adversarial divorce lawyer at Goddard and Montoure Inc. P.S. for four additional years. During those four years, it became increasingly obvious to me that people going through divorce were unnecessarily traumatized by the structure of the system they were forced to utilize.
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Collaborative law is a way of practicing law based on a premise that most legal conflicts can be resolved by agreement when the parties and their lawyers neither use nor threaten to use the court system and agree to be cooperative and respectful during the process and addressing the issues that need to be resolved.
I just wanted to say thank you for all your help. The support that you have given me is greatly appreciated and I never expected that from you. There were many times that I just wanted to give in to whatever [other parent] wanted but you were always helpful in making sure that I realized that this is for [child].
