Evans Family Law Group

I began focusing on family law full time about four or five years ago. The firm is now known as Evans Family Law Group, to be reflective of our core practice.

Family Law: divorce, adoptions, custody, protective orders, grandparents rights, modifications of divorce decrees and custody arrangements, child support, protective orders, alimony and spousal support, post divorce dissolution, prenuptial agreement and post nuptial agreements.

Mediated Divorce - Settled a six million dollar community estate without going to court once. I utilized a professional mediator to resolve the final property and child custody support case. I combined aggressive research on valuations, exacting discovery, and diplomacy to attend to the interests of the client to avoid court dispute and high tensions; to retain dignity.

Collaborative Divorce - Represented a professional and his wife in a collaborative divorce where the parties were able to privately settle their disputes outside of court. Through the use of third party professionals, including a psychologist and a business evaluator, all to determine the value of a closely held family business and a CPA to assist with taxes.

Collaborative Dissolution- Successfully obtained divorce for a couple through a collaborative process, but outside of the formal collaborative law process. The estate was worth over one million dollars.

Informal Marriage- Successfully defended a client from the claim of an "informal marriage" (common law marriage). The couple had lived together for nearly five years and the purported "wife" was claiming an interest in 1/2 of his business interests, alimony, spousal support, and child support in excess of $3,000. After a four day jury trial, the jury found no marriage existed and child support was set at guidelines of $1,500 per month.