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Pre-law. Jonathan was born and raised in Hayward, CA and joined the U.S. Air Force during his last year of high school. He spent the next 6 years flying rescue missions at home and abroad and it was during his time overseas that he developed a deep appreciation for the U.S. legal system. Once home from his tour in Iraq, Jonathan decided that he wanted to pursue a career in law to help those in his community.. Education and Experience. Jonathan obtained his B.A. from U.C. Berkeley and his J.D. from the University of Santa Clara School of Law. While pursuing his undergraduate and graduate degrees Jonathan continued to fly rescue missions with the U.S. Air Force, worked as a paralegal at a Bay Area law office, and clerked for the Santa Clara and San Mateo District Attorneys' offices.. Going Solo. Soon after being admitted to the California State Bar, Jonathan took the leap and started his own practice. Whether rescuing by plane or advocating in the courtroom, helping those in need has always been the chief motivator in Jonathan's life and he is incredibly thankful for continued opportunities to do so.. Community. In addition to running his own practice, Jonathan is involved in the local veteran's community and tries to provide pro bono services as often as he is able.

Marianne Howland, partner at Howland  Shake Law, LLP, is a 2006 graduate from the Texas A&M University School of Law. She handles adoptions, custody battles, pre- and post-nuptial agreements, divorces, post-divorce modifications and enforcement. While Howland is comfortable in the courtroom litigating cases for her clients, she encourages clients to settle their issues amicably whenever possible.. Howland is a member of the State Bar of Texas, the State Bar of Texas Family Law Section, the State Bar of Texas Trial Section, the Dallas Bar Association and Oak Cliff Women and Business. She specializes in school and family law.

I am passionate about serving the individual needs of my clients. I ensure that there are open lines of communication and that I am available for my clients both on a day-to-day basis and whenever the unexpected arises.  I bring skilled, strong, and experienced advocacy to representation of my clients. My practice includes: Divorce, Child Custody and Support, Farm and Business Asset Division, Modifications, Adoptions and Guardianships, Civil Protection Orders, and Civil Litigation.. I currently serve as a Council Member to the Idaho State Bar Family Law Section. I actively participate in the Professionalism and Ethics Section of the Idaho State Bar and I volunteer for the Idaho Trial Lawyers street-law clinic. I am a member of both the Idaho and Wyoming state bar associations.

My personal philosophy is to never add conflict to a family law case. The parties involved have often had difficulty with effective communication and I view it as part of my job to facilitate and even strengthen communications as the parties work towards a resolution. I believe much more is accomplished through civility than bullying.. For me, life is about the relationships we have with one another. The relationships we have with our family members, even after a separation or divorce, will persist for years or even decades. The relationships we have with our children need to be protected and cherished.. The same is true for me in my approach to practicing law. I make my relationships with clients a priority. In order to be an effective advocate, it is critical that we develop a trusting and honest connection. I also value my relationships with opposing counsel and other members of the bar. I have found that thoughtful analysis, combined with respectful communications with the other side can often resolve even the most difficult situations.

Attorney Thabet Khalidi is an aggressive litigator who has proudly represented Southern Arizonans in hundreds of family law, serious injury or death, malpractice, and nursing home neglect lawsuits. While I no longer practice family law, that experience has given me a deep understanding of how personal injuries can ripple through an entire family, impacting not just the injured individual, but also their relationships, finances, and overall well-being.. Since 2019, Thabet has been recognized by U.S. News – Best Lawyers in Personal Injury and Medical Malpractice. This prestigious peer-reviewed ranking, based on the opinions of fellow attorneys, is also featured in Tucson Lifestyle magazine.. Thabet is a graduate of the University of Arizona and attended the University of Wisconsin Law School, where he graduated cum laude. In over 30 years of practice, Thabet has tried dozens of cases to both judges and juries.. He has been named one of the Top Pro Bono Attorneys in Arizona and has tried cases in Pima County, Santa Cruz County, Cochise County, Pinal County and Gila County, including the cities of Tucson, Bisbee, Casa Grande, Marana, Douglas, Oro Valley, Nogales, Vail, Sahuarita, Green Valley and Sierra Vista, as well as in the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.

Experienced Family attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

As a mother and a member of a close knit community I know how important stabililty is for healthy families.  My practice is a small firm that specializes in cohesive family law solutions.  My associates and I bring different strengths and legal expertise to our clients: debt resolution and criminal defense among our skills.. We pride ourselves in  our commitment to building a strong attorney-client relationship.  We are accessible and flexible to best represent our client's needs.

Alia F. Ahmed is a family and matrimonial law attorney practicing in King and Snohomish Counties. She also has experience addressing International Family Law matters. Ms. Ahmed is a Seattle native who grew up in the South Asian culture. As a result, Ms. Ahmed understands possible cultural implications to family law matters as well.. Previous to working at Dethlefs Sparwasser Reich Dickerson PLLC, Ms. Ahmed ran her own law firm Ahmed Law PLLC. Ms. Ahmed also previously worked at a large international law firm, Wong Fleming, where she practiced family law for over 8 years. Before that, Ms. Ahmed worked with the Washington Education Association, one of the largest teachers' unions in Washington State, where she gained extensive experience in the areas of labor law, school law, administrative law, public employment, civil rights, and constitutional law.. As a law student, Ms. Ahmed also consecutively served as the Vice President and President of the National South Asian Law Student Association.. Ms. Ahmed is also very passionate about The Goodtimes Project, a nonprofit focused on providing support for families with children recovering from cancer. Ms. Ahmed served on the board of this organization for about 2 years and continues to devote her time helping support the organization on an ongoing basis.. Ms. Ahmed enjoys spending time with her two young sons and enjoying the beautiful Pacific Northwest.

ABOUT ROBERT A. KELLY. Contact my office today if you need to discuss family issues such as legal separation or divorce, property division, child custody or child support. Because I specialize in family law, you can be confident that you will receive the professional services you need.

Experienced Family attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Experienced Family attorney serving clients in United States and surrounding areas.

Annie M. Rolfe is a Certified Specialist in Family Law by the State Bar of Arizona. She has practiced exclusively family law since February, 2005, and is currently a member of the Family Law Executive Council of the State Bar of Arizona.. Ms. Rolfe is recognized as a Best Lawyer in America 2024 and has been consistently rated AV-Preeminent by Martindale.. Ms. Rolfe’s practice focuses on dissolution (divorce), annulment, paternity, child custody, child support, spousal maintenance (alimony), interstate custody and support, parental relocation, grandparents’ rights, and adoption. She is a strong and fair advocate for the spouses and parents who she represents.. After growing up in Southern California, Annie Rolfe attended Yale University where she obtained her B.A. in Political Science concentrating in American Government. She attended the James E. Rogers College of Law at the University of Arizona where she especially enjoyed her education and training in litigation and trials.. Ms. Rolfe lives in Tucson, Arizona, with her husband, Sam, and her daughters. Outside of the office, she enjoys spending time with her family at home.. Rolfe Family Law PLLC is also one of very few law firms in Arizona to offer the services of a Legal Paraprofessional. Legal Paraprofessionals (LPs) have similar roles in legal practice to the roles performed by nurse practitioners in medicine. LPs can practice Family Law in the State of Arizona, with limited exceptions. The role of LPs was created in large part to address the large gap in access to justice, and to provide low- and middle-income individuals with greater access to legal assistance. At Rolfe Family Law PLLC, Ms. Sabrina Bell serves as a Legal Paraprofessional and can assist individuals at a lower cost, while still having access to Ms. Rolfe's knowledge and experience, as needed.

Laurel joined Stahancyk, Kent & Hook in 1999 and was elected a shareholder in 2004. Stahancyk Kent & Hook transitioned to SKH Family Law and Estate Planning in 2024 where Laurel remains as a senior litigator. Laurel litigates family law cases throughout the states of Oregon and Washington, successfully representing clients in all matters relating to family law, which can include: divorce, legal separation, domestic partnership, modification of spousal support and child support, prenuptial agreements, and cohabitation agreements. Laurel is most recognized for her complex financial and business interest cases as well as high-conflict, custody parenting time matters and modifications. Laurel also works closely with the estate-planning department to provide comprehensive legal counsel before, during, and after the divorce process.

One of the founding principals of the firm, Dickson J. Young concentrates his practice on federal and state criminal defense, personal injury, wrongful death, driving while intoxicated, and general criminal litigation. As a litigator, Mr. Young has tried and argued cases at all levels of the Virginia court system. This has enabled him to represent a diverse group of individuals, including elected officials, industry professionals, judges, and professional athletes. He has a wealth of legal expertise and experience, and his approach to serving the client is regarded as amicable and resourceful. He puts himself in the shoes of the person he represents and knows how important freedom is. He appreciates how hard it is to earn a living and how costly the provision of legal services can be, so he works to bring value to the client equation. His fellow attorneys have given him their highest peer review rating, AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review Rated SM by Martindale-Hubbell®.. Mr. Young is an active member of several local, state and national bar associations. He has lectured in seminars for many of those associations, as well as for the Northern Virginia Criminal Justice Academy. In 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008, Virginia Business magazine noted his selection by practicing attorneys to be included in the “Legal Elite.” Mr. Young is also an avid outdoorsman, with hobbies that include golf, tennis, scuba, skiing, and long-distance cycling.

Monique Gilson-Moreau has been practicing law for over 30 years, primarily in private practice.  Monique has been a litigator, mediator, and guardian ad litem for the courts. She currently focuses her practice on family law, with particular experience in relocation and interstate custody issues (“UCCJEA” Uniform Child Custody Jurisdiction Enforcement Act ) and the Indian Child Welfare Act “ICWA.”  Monique has dealt with various tribal courts in this and other states and has appeared and/or been admitted to practice in various local tribal courts. Early in her career Monique gained experience in various areas of law as indicated in her Professional Experience below.. Attorney.   Monique was born in Verviers, Belgium and immigrated to the United States with her parents at a young age.  Monique earned her Juris Doctorate degree from the University of Puget Sound School of Law (now known as Seattle University School of Law) in 1985.  She continued her legal training through McGeorge University School of Law at their Salzburg, Austria Campus, earning a Diploma in Transnational Legal Practice.  She then moved to Paris, France where she completed an internship with an international French law firm.  She was sworn in as an Attorney licensed to practice in Washington State at the U.S. Embassy in Paris.  She remained in Paris for over 2 years where she continued to work for various private French law firms and eventually met and married her husband.  Monique returned to Seattle, WA with her husband in December of 1987.  Monique and her husband, Frederic, are the proud parents of three grown daughters, two of whom work with Monique as her paralegals.  Upon her return to Washington, Monique did contract work for various Seattle law firms until she began her private solo practice, which included immigration and family law.  Because Monique speaks French fluently, she has received referrals for Immigration, Adoption and Family Law cases from the French Consulate in San Francisco as well as the Honorary French Consulate in Seattle.  Monique successfully obtained asylum for a client who fled persecution in Zaire and adjusted the status of several French Nationals enabling them to work or become permanent residents of the United States.   Her empathy and compassion for others led her to volunteer to represent a financially disadvantaged victim of domestic violence through the Family Law Mentor program.  This and similar experiences eventually led her to focus her practice on domestic law, child support, custody, including interstate UCCJEA cases, adoptions, Guardian ad litem and mediation.  She particularly enjoys using her family law experience to help parties resolve their disputes.  Finally, she has supported our U.S. military by volunteering her time to provide Washington Family Law training to the JAGs at the Whidbey Island Naval Base.. Guardian ad Litem.  Monique has been appointed by the King County Superior Court as a guardian ad litem in Title ll cases.  She later completed training as a Title 26 guardian ad litem for children in family law cases.. Tribal Courts and the Indian Child Welfare Act.   Monique has represented clients in matters that either were brought in Tribal Court or in which a party invoked the Indian Child Welfare Act in Washington Tribes and as far away as South Dakota. Monique is currently admitted to practice in the Lummi Tribal Court.. Mediator.  Monique has successfully mediated settlement conferences between private parties as well as parties represented by attorneys in compliance with the settlement conference requirements mandated in several Washington Counties.. About Monique.  Monique met and married her husband, Frederic, in Paris, France in 1986.  They moved to Seattle at the end of 1987 and had three beautiful daughters, who are now young adults and on their own.  Monique is bi-lingual, French being her first language.  She enjoys cooking, gardening, traveling, spending time in the outdoors and at their property in Chelan, WA.  Monique loves animals and passed on to her children that love and compassion for animals.  Monique and her husband currently share their home with 3 dogs and 3 cats.  Sometimes she brings her Maltese “Tucker” to the office to hang out.

I represent clients in all aspects of family law matters including divorce, equitable distribution, child custody, support, relocation, grandparents’ rights and protection from abuse. As a divorced father of two children, I have a keen understanding of the difficulties facing clients in the midst of a divorce. I am able to utilize my personal experience and professional knowledge to assist clients navigate the family law process. I pride myself on being a zealous advocate for my clients while also providing them with realistic expectations for their specific circumstance. My mantra is "I may not always tell you what you want to hear, but I will always tell you what you need to hear.". I am a member of the Pennsylvania Bar Association, Montgomery County Bar Association and the Doris Jonas Freed American Inn of Court. I appeared multiple times on the radio show, Legal Talk, to discuss family law issues. I have also been a guest lecturer on the topic of family law for the People’s Law School. I handle cases in the counties of Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Montgomery and Philadelphia.

I’ve been around the law (or, more accurately, the law has been around me) nearly all my life. As a teenager, I had no doubt that my career would be in the legal field. While I was growing up in Bay Village, Ohio, my mother practiced as a paralegal before she pursued her law degree. I often went to her office and watched her, and the attorneys who she worked with, practice their profession with dignity and integrity. I wanted to be just like them.. Throughout my college and law school years and before taking the bar exam, I was an administrative assistant, legal assistant, personal assistant, legal secretary, paralegal, project coordinator, and collateral manager (sometimes more than one at a time!). As a result, even before becoming an attorney I gained experience in a wide variety of practice areas, including personal injury, bankruptcy, landlord-tenant relations, bar admissions, intellectual property, and family law. After getting my license in December 2020, I ran a solo practice for over two years, and was thrilled to join Kirner & Boldt Co., L.P.A. in November 2023.. I am a proud member of the Cleveland Metropolitan Bar Association’s Mental Health and Wellness Committee. There is no higher calling to me than helping de-stigmatize substance abuse and mental illness in the legal profession. In furtherance of that goal, I give presentations to attorneys and law students on the importance of identifying and treating mental illness and addiction before it becomes a professional problem. I am also a member of the bar admissions committee, interviewing applicants for their character & fitness to take the exam and become members of the profession.. I am the oldest of three (my brother and sister are twins), and an aunt to a precious niece and nephew. My mother is now a practicing attorney, and my father is a retired Vietnam War veteran. In my spare time, I write short stories and am working on the sequel to a self-published novel. I’m an avid reader (John Walsh’s “Tears of Rage” changed my life), and I love going to the theatre, listening to podcasts, and traveling to New York City as often as I can. And, of course, I am a lifelong, suffering Cleveland Browns fan who starts every football season saying, “Maybe next year.”

After graduating from Winthrop College in 1985, Robert Masella went on to become a key member of the business world. It was here that he excelled substantially, rising to the role of a top producer at a Fortune 100 Company. After his success in the business world he went on to pursue a career in the practice of law, attending the University of South Carolina School. After graduating, he served the now Supreme Court of South Carolina Justice Kaye G. Hearn as a law clerk. He then went on to the Richland County Solicitor’s Office where handled prosecution cases for misdemeanors and felonies. He has now been practicing law for more than 20 years and has continued to develop his skill in this field. He is able to offer his clients exceptional representation in matters of personal injury, workers’ compensation, criminal defense and family law. As a Columbia attorney with a comprehensive understanding of the law, he is able to work with clients faced with all types of situations. He reviews the details of their circumstances, speaks with them to get to know their hopes and gets started on a plan to find the solution they are looking for. When you are dealing with a legal matter, you need an attorney that you can trust to care about your case and to devote themselves to finding an outcome that works for your good. Wondering where to start? Fill out a case evaluation form on the site and someone can contact you.