FAMILY LAW

Victories!

Successfully urging the Montana Supreme Court, in the first case of its kind in the nation, to recognize that when a battered woman and her children have fled to another state, a court must consider domestic violence as a reason to let the court of the other state determine child custody issues. 

Stoneman v. Drollinger: Read the decision.

Successfully arguing that same-sex couples be accorded the same property division rules as other couples living in marital-like relationships. 

Vasquez v. Hawthorne: Read the decision. 

Gormley v. Robertson: Read the decision.

Winning the first Washington State case that recognized a non-biological mother’s right to parent her child. 

In re Parentage of L.B: Read the decision.

Changing Washington law to protect a custodial parent’s constitutional right to relocate with her children. For information on your legal rights, click here (leaves this site).

Changing Washington law to ensure that children have the right to adequate post-high school financial support.