Divorce & Property
We represent LGBTQ+ spouses in divorce matters involving property division, debt, spousal maintenance, real estate, retirement assets, business interests, and complex financial issues.
KNAUF SANTOS LAW
Seattle LGBTQ+ Family Law Attorneys
Family law should account for the family you actually built. KSL represents LGBTQ+ clients throughout Seattle, King County, and Snohomish County in divorce, parentage, parenting, property, agreements, and other family law matters.
LGBTQ+ Family Law Representation Grounded in the Details
Many LGBTQ+ family law cases involve the same core legal issues as any other family law matter. The facts, however, can involve family structures, parenting histories, property arrangements, prior relationships, assisted reproduction, or legal parentage questions that require careful attention from the beginning.
Our role is to identify the legal issues that actually matter, explain the available paths, and build a strategy around the client’s family, finances, and goals rather than forcing the case into a generic template.
Parentage
Legal parentage can be especially important when biology, adoption, assisted reproduction, or the history of a parent-child relationship does not tell the whole story. Washington law also recognizes de facto parentage in qualifying circumstances.
Parenting Plans & Custody
We help parents address residential schedules, decision-making, holidays, school arrangements, restrictions, and other parenting-plan issues in both initial and post-decree cases.
Unmarried Partners
For clients who are not married, property, finances, parentage, and relationship history can require a different legal analysis than a traditional divorce case.
PARENTAGE & FAMILY FORMATION
Assisted Reproduction, Surrogacy, and Legal Parentage
Washington’s parentage laws address assisted reproduction and surrogacy, including consent, intended parentage, donor status, and related parentage questions. These issues can become particularly important when a family later separates or when legal parentage was never clearly documented.
When a case raises assisted-reproduction, surrogacy, adoption, or de facto-parentage questions, the legal history of the family should be reviewed early rather than treated as an afterthought.
Prenuptial & Postnuptial Agreements
Agreements can clarify expectations around property, debt, separate assets, financial responsibilities, and other issues before or during marriage.
Post-Decree Changes
Life changes after a case ends. We represent clients in parenting-plan, child-support, relocation, and other modification matters when an existing order no longer fits the circumstances.
Protection Orders & Safety
Protection-order proceedings can overlap with divorce, parenting, housing, and communication issues. We represent clients in domestic-violence protection-order matters and related family law proceedings.
START WITH A CLEAR PLAN
Talk With a Seattle LGBTQ+ Family Law Attorney
We can help you understand the legal issues, the practical choices, and the next steps that fit your family and your circumstances.