Family Law Page

Our Family Law department provides legal services for a wide range of family law issues. Our Family Law attorneys, Michael Ditchik, Sara Wahl, and Jamie Danielson, can assist families in most areas of family law, including divorces, legal separations, parenting plan and child support modifications, paternity actions, domestic violence matters and collaborative law. Our attorneys can assist you and your family in making the choices that best fit your changing lives. Family law cases are unusually difficult, in that they often involve significant emotional conflict and economic uncertainty. Our goal is to help you through this difficult time as quickly and effectively as possible.

At Hanis Irvine Prothero, PLLC our goal is to protect your best interests, whether that means protecting your children, helping you to keep your property, dealing with child support issues, providing for your financial stability or any other related matter. We understand that each case is unique and that each client has very different needs and concerns. We strive to maintain a consistently high level of service for all our clients and, at the same time, address those individual needs. We believe in keeping the client well informed regarding all aspects of his or her case, as a well informed client is better able to take an active part in the litigation process.

For those seeking to avoid litigation, Hanis Irvine Prothero is one of the few firms in the south King County area that handles Collaborative Family Law cases. Collaborative Law is an emerging area of family law that provides clients with a unique opportunity to reach amicable resolutions to their disputes, have increased understanding and cooperation in parenting for the long term, all outside of the litigation process. Mike Ditchik and Sara Wahl are collaboratively trained and are members of King County Collaborative Law and the International Academy of Collaborative Professionals.

To learn more about how the the services of the Collaborative Law Department of Hanis Irvine Prothero might benefit you, please visit our firm's Collaborative Family Law Page.

At Hanis Irvine Prothero we are committed to keeping ourselves up to date in both the legal and technical realms. Our Family Law department maintains the latest software and technical updates. We also receive periodic case reports for recent family law court decisions. This means that our clients can count on us to have not only the latest court forms, but also to have up to date information on those court decisions that may apply to them.

We recognize that many clients are justifiably concerned about legal fees and costs. With this in mind, we will work with you to strike a balance between handling a case in the most effective manner possible, while at the same time discouraging unnecessary or ineffective litigation. We do our best to keep our fees reasonable and consistent with the client's means, while maintaining the professional level of service all clients expect and deserve.