At Fields and Dennis, LLP, we believe in innovative solutions to complex family problems. We blend law and human services to provide our clients with choices. Our unique approach offers clients the maximum flexibility to discuss, understand and solve their problems. In some cases, the client's needs may be served by mediation, collaborative law, arbitration, or other methods of alternative dispute resolution. For some clients, traditional litigation may be the wisest course.
Because...
At Fields and Dennis, LLP, we believe in innovative solutions to complex family problems. We blend law and human services to provide our clients with choices. Our unique approach offers clients the maximum flexibility to discuss, understand and solve their problems. In some cases, the client's needs may be served by mediation, collaborative law, arbitration, or other methods of alternative dispute resolution. For some clients, traditional litigation may be the wisest course.
Because...
At Fields and Dennis, LLP, we believe in innovative solutions to complex family problems. We blend law and human services to provide our clients with choices. Our unique approach offers clients the maximum flexibility to discuss, understand and solve their problems. In some cases, the client's needs may be served by mediation, collaborative law, arbitration, or other methods of alternative dispute resolution. For some clients, traditional litigation may be the wisest course.
Because we don't believe in cookie-cutter solutions, the paths we take to achieve the best results for clients and their families will always be specifically tailored to the individual circumstances of the client.
Through The Center for Problem Resolution, Inc., we have also enjoyed great success with a new approach known as family team decision-making. Also through the Center, we provide divorce coaching to assist those going through the experience of divorce with the emotional and psychological ramifications of the process. As parent coordinators, we break the deadlocks that families in high conflict custody disputes often experience.
Our "family law" practice is not defined by the traditional boundaries that the term encompasses; our practice involves several areas of which families are an integral part. In addition to domestic relations (divorce, custody, paternity, etc.), we counsel clients on estate planning, probate, elder, guardianship and business succession planning.
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