Most family-law calls are not about whether to file. They're about what to do next, how to talk to the kids, and whether the family business can survive the transition. The legal path follows from understanding what's at stake.
Talk to a family law attorneyFamily work sits at the most personal end of legal practice. Marriages start and end. Kids grow up and move. Parents need care. Businesses get folded into estates. We handle the family-law side: prenuptial and postnuptial agreements at the start, divorce, custody, and support when a marriage ends, and modifications when circumstances change. None of it happens in isolation. The same office houses tax attorneys, estate planners, and business counsel, and the family-law team works with them as one engagement. When a divorce involves a closely-held business, the business team values it. When a prenup needs an estate-plan amendment, the estate team handles it. Same firm, every chapter.
Filing through final decree: residence, support, asset division, and the parenting plan. Most matters resolve without trial; the ones that don't, we try.
Court-rules-compliant mediation that produces a binding agreement. Useful when both spouses are talking and want to avoid the courthouse cost and timeline.
Establishing or disestablishing parentage, parenting plans, support orders, and the genetic-testing process when it's required.
Community-property analysis, separate-property tracing, business valuation, retirement and pension division, and the negotiated or court-ordered split of assets.
Cases involving hidden assets, custody disputes, abuse allegations, or a non-cooperative party. Discovery-heavy, court-active, and tried when settlement isn't possible.
Temporary and post-decree maintenance: amount, duration, and the modification standards that apply when income or marital status changes.
Parenting plans, residential schedules, child-support calculations under Washington's worksheet, and the modification process when life changes.
Pre-marriage and during-marriage agreements that protect a business, a trust, family wealth, or kids from a prior marriage. Drafted to survive a future challenge.
Dividing a business, retirement, stock, and investment accounts in a divorce — with tracing, valuation, and QDROs handled right.
Long-tenured family clients return for the same three reasons. None of them is the legal procedure itself. It’s the relationship that surrounds it.
The partner you meet at intake is the one in mediation, at trial, and on the post-decree call two years later. They’re the same attorney through every chapter of the matter.
Family-law matters touch tax, estate planning, business, and probate. We coordinate across the firm so you don’t pay four lawyers to talk to each other.
We’ve helped families through divorces, custody transitions, prenups, and the years that follow. That continuity matters.
First conversation about the situation, the family, the timeline, and the client’s real goals. The legal strategy follows from understanding what matters.
A written plan for the next ninety days: filing strategy, custody approach, financial disclosures, and the protective orders that go in first when needed.
Financial disclosures, asset valuations, custody evaluations, and the third-party records the case needs to settle or to try.
Settlement agreements, parenting plans, support orders, and the mediation that resolves most cases without trial.
If settlement isn't possible, we try the case in superior court. The same attorney who knew the file from the start.
Modifications, enforcement, and the years of family-law counsel that follow a clean decree. Same attorney, year over year.
Questions about timing, residence, the kids, and what the next six to twelve months look like financially. We map the path before either side files anything, so the first formal move is the right one.
School schedules shifted, one parent moved, or the kids are old enough to weigh in. We modify the plan through court when needed, or at the kitchen table when both sides can talk.
We draft prenuptials and postnuptials that hold up under future challenge and don’t poison the engagement. Estate plans, business agreements, and trust documents are coordinated in the same firm.
Hidden assets, custody disputes, or a non-cooperative party. We take the file from intake through trial with the same attorney, and we try the case if a settlement isn't on the table.
Both spouses had ownership interests. We coordinated with the firm's business and tax teams to value the company, structure a buyout, and protect the operating cash flow during the dissolution. Settlement reached without trial.
Guardian-ad-litem evaluation, two days of trial, and a revised parenting plan that worked for both households. The other side appealed; we held the result on appeal.
One spouse owned a development company and a trust for adult children from a prior marriage. We drafted the prenup and coordinated estate-plan amendments to protect both sides of the family. Both estate plans updated within the same engagement.
Uncontested matters can resolve in 90 days, the statutory minimum in Washington. Contested cases with custody disputes or significant assets typically run six to eighteen months. We give a written budget after the first conversation and update it if scope changes.
Yes. King County requires mediation or a settlement conference before trial in most family-law cases. We prepare you for it and represent you in the room. Many matters settle there before a trial date is set. It’s often the right path even when it isn't strictly required.
Most matters are hourly with a retainer set at the start. After the intake conversation you get a written estimate, and we update it if scope changes. Some discrete matters (mediation, prenuptials, modifications) can be quoted flat-fee. We’ll be direct about the path that fits your matter in the engagement letter.
Yes. We work with families that have assets, citizenship, or children in multiple jurisdictions. Cross-border custody, foreign asset disclosure, and treaty analysis come up regularly. We coordinate with foreign counsel where needed.
Our litigation team works in the same office, on the same file. If a matter heads to court because of hidden assets, custody disputes, or a non-cooperative party, you don’t need a different firm to try the case.
First conversations are confidential and free. You'll talk to the attorney who would handle your matter, not a screener.
Oseran Hahn P.S. · 11225 SE 6th St, Suite 100 · Bellevue, WA 98004
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